Michillinda Lodge, Lakeside resort in Whitehall, Michigan, US

Michillinda Lodge is a lakeside resort on Michigan's waterfront consisting of nine buildings with twenty-six vacation rental units. The property includes about four hundred feet of private beach and direct access to the shoreline.

The site's history began in 1894, when Theo Willson and three deacons from Muskegon bought 22 acres from John R. Austin for $1,000 and divided it into 23 cottage lots. In 1895 leaseholders named the association MICH-ILL-INDA after Michigan, Illinois and Indiana. Emanuel Duttenhofer opened the 18-room Stephens house as a resort in 1920; the original lodge burned on December 2, 2012, and the surviving nine buildings reopened in October 2013.

The name MICH-ILL-INDA, chosen in 1895, combines Michigan, Illinois and Indiana, the home states of the leaseholders. The Johansens began an Evening Coffee Hour serving coffee and cookies at sunset, a tradition kept at the resort. A 1965 Chalet on the grounds hosted Friday-night variety shows, and Miss America 1960 Nancy Fleming retreated here.

The resort's nine buildings hold 26 guest units, with an outdoor swimming pool, a miniature golf course, a campfire area and a 400-foot private beach on Lake Michigan. Weddings, receptions and reunions are hosted on site. The main lodge that once held the restaurant and two dining rooms burned in 2012, so dining is no longer in the original building.

The name came from combining the first letters of the three states where the founders originated. This original naming choice shows how the three investors united their regional partnership into a single word.