Albion History Subject List

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Article titles are in all capital letters, and mixed case letters indicate photographic captions or are from the 100 Years Ago series.

Albion Miscellaneous

• ALBION--JUST RIGHT
• NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION
• GROWING UP IN ALBION
• CHRISTMAS SEALS
• THE KEY TO THE CITY
• The Key to the City of Albion (photograph)
• NOT REALLY ALBION POSTCARDS
• ALBION IN THE 20th CENTURY
• 1890 BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, Part 1
• 1890 BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, Part 2
• 1890 BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, Part 3
• 1890 BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, Part 4
• 1890 BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, Part 5
• 1890 BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, Part 6
• ALBION IN THE MICHIGAN GAZETTEER
• GIVE A THOUGHT TO ALBION
• HUMOROUS STORIES
• ALBION HISTORY QUIZ
• JUSTICE DOCKETS
• ALBION ACROSS THE USA
• THE PASSING SCENE
• A CAPITAL IDEA
• 1877 HISTORY OF CALHOUN COUNTY
• WISE OWL QUIZZETTE
• Growing Up in Albion (book)

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  Businesses

  See also Downtown, Industry, and People

• Central Telephone Company
• AMERICAN WAY RESTAURANT
• THE BANK OF ALBION
• Michigan Telephone Company
• MAHER PLANING MILL
• STAR LITE MOTEL
• SATELLITE DRIVE-IN
• Calhoun County Telephone Company
• ALBION MILK BOTTLES
• THE ORIGINAL WALM
• YANKEE STORE
• HUMPHREY DAIRY
• THE PAGODA
• ROOT BEER STAND
• ALBION-MADE PROUTY LOCKS ARE COLLECTOR’S ITEMS
• ALBION-MADE SODA POP
• TOMCHAK GROCERY & TAVERN
• TYSZKO’S PROMINENT WEST END GROCERY
• DUBINA’S TAVERN WAS WEST END SOCIAL CENTER
• A & P SUPERMARKET
• DICKERSON’S CLEANERS
• ALBION BEVERAGE COMPANY
• RUSTENHOLTZ GROCERY
• Albion Lumber Company
• TIK TOK DRIVE-IN
• Bullen’s Opening
• SEELYE’S TINY BONDS
• FELISKY BARBER SHOP
• The Bar-B-Q-House
• TELEPHONE OPERATORS
• STARR COMMONWEALTH MILK BOTTLE
• LEWIS PRYOR WAGON
• THOMSON’S FLOWERS
• PAVLUCHIK GROCERY
• CARTWRIGHT SHOES
• “Good for 5¢ in Trade” tokens (photographs)
• FROSTY FREEZE
• POLL PARROT TEA ROOM
• THE ALBION $10 BANKNOTE
• THE MILLER-PHIPPS STUDIO
• MAPLE CITY DAIRY COMPANY
• JEWITT & KNAPP DRY GOODS STORE
• ALDIE S. TORREY GROCERY
• CARRIGAN GROCERY
• THE CHICKEN HATCHERY
• THE COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK
• PIZZA PETE’S
• THE EGG HOUSE
• ALBION GOLD MINE
• THE ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY
• ALBION BANKNOTE
• MORGAN FIELD
• TWO AND A HALF CENTS WORTH
• THE CEMENT CASKET COMPANY
• FOOD STAMP TOKENS
• ALBION NATIONAL BANKNOTE
• KOROLUK CONFECTIONARY
• MYMOCHOD WEST END MARKET
• GROFF BROTHERS LUMBER COMPANY
• KONRAD FELISKY BARBER SHOP
• MICHIGAN ARTIFICIAL ICE PRODUCTS COMPANY
• ENCO SERVICE STATION
• QUIGG ADVERTISING INK BLOTTER
• AN ASSORTMENT OF UNLISTED MICHIGAN ADVERTISING “GOOD-FOR” TRADE TOKEN MIRRORS
• THE PHILIP HARTUNG PHOTOGRAPHY WAGON
• TRADE CURRENCY CIRCULATED HERE IN 1933
• SNUG BARBER SHOP CONTINUES LONG TRADITION
• CITGO LOCATION WAS EARLY AUTO SALES SITE
• CHINESE LAUNDRY ONCE OPERATED HERE
• J.W. KNAPP COMPANY WAS LOCATED HERE A CENTURY AGO
• GEORGE MITCHELL CONFECTIONARY WAS FAVORITE ALBION HANG-OUT
• FRANK BENNETT WAS EARLY 20th CENTURY ALBION BUSINESSMAN
• REAL ALBION MONEY ONCE CIRCULATED HERE
• FRANK NOWLIN ONCE PROMINENT ELEVATOR MERCHANT
• WOLVERINE CATV ALBION’S FIRST TV CABLE SYSTEM
• Bullen & Tucker Clothing Store
• THE CHEAPEST AND THE BEST
• BANK SOLICITED SWATTED FLIES IN 1919
• DARROW BOATS ONCE MADE IN ALBION

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  Cemeteries

• HARRINGTON CEMETERY URN
• RIVERSIDE CEMETERY FENCE
• CEMETERY FISH POND
• SOUTH ALBION CEMETERY
• FROM BOMBS TO FLOWERS
• EDWARD EDWARDS
• Tombstone of Dr. Isaac Grant
• Riverside cemetery road (photograph)
• PEOPLE WHO NEVER DIED
• PEOPLE WHO NEVER DIED
• RIVERSIDE CEMETERY
• REED CEMETERY
• JAMES W. SHELDON MAUSOLEUM
• PEOPLE WHO NEVER DIED
• CEMETERY TOUR
• RIVERSIDE CEMETERY
• RIVERSIDE CEMETERY
• RIVERSIDE CEMETERY BRIDGE
• RIVERSIDE CEMETERY OFFICE
• RIVERSIDE ABBEY
• RIVERSIDE CEMETERY HISTORICAL MARKER TO BE DEDICATED

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  Census

• U.S. CENSUS IN ALBION
• THE 1930 U.S. CENSUS FOR ALBION
• THE 1920 CENSUS
• U.S. CENSUS RECORDS PINPOINT YOUR ANCESTORS EVERY 10 YEARS
• SOJOURNER TRUTH AND THE U.S. CENSUS
• THE 1910 U.S. CENSUS BADGE
• THE U.S. CENSUS ON WWW.FINDAGRAVE.COM
• THE THREE STOOGES: CENSUSLY YOURS
• THE 1910 AGRICULTURAL CENSUS

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  Albion College

• WINTER-LAU FIELD
• INDIAN STUDIES AT ALBION COLLEGE
• OAK GROVE
• AN ALBION COLLEGE $2 BILL
• HISTORIC ALBION COLLEGE MEDALS PHOTOGRAPHED IN COLORADO CLASSROOM
• THE 1889-90 ALBION COLLEGE CURRENCY
• NEW IRA MAYHEW COLLEGE SCRIP DENOMINATION SURFACES
• ALBION COLLEGE STUDENT ARMY TRAINING CORPS
• INDIAN DEPARTMENT ONCE EXISTED AT ALBION COLLEGE
• HISTORIC ALBION COLLEGE MEDALS PHOTOGRAPHED IN COLORADO CLASSROOM

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  Crime

• Jack the Peeper
• Rude boys from out of town
• Charles R. Mains (lithograph)
• STOLEN DIAMONDS AND THE ALBION-CHARLOTTE RAILROAD
• THE PURPLE GANG, PART I
• THE PURPLE GANG, PART II
• STOLEN DIAMONDS, THE ALBION-CHARLOTTE RAILROAD, AND A TOKEN OF INNOCENCE
• PURPLE GANG CAR SEIZED HERE IN 1936

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  Disasters

• THE FLOOD OF 1908
• DUTCH ELM DISEASE
• Diptheria Quarantine
• THE FLOOD OF 1908
• NORTH ALBION ST. BRIDGE COLLAPSE
• San Francisco earthquake recovery aid
• THE BANK THAT CLOSED FOR GOOD AT CHRISTMAS
• THE OAK MEADOWS SHEEP MASSACRE, Part 1
• THE OAK MEADOWS SHEEP MASSACRE, Part 2
• Ponto Sink Hole (photograph)
• REMEMBERING THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1908
• THE 1919 ESLOW BLOCK FIRE REMEMBERED
• ELECTRIC POLE WAS SITE OF 1911 ELECTROCUTION TRAGEDY
• NEW YEAR BROUGHT BANK FAILURE IN 1912
• THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1908
• ALBION BANK SCANDAL

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  Downtown Albion

  See also Businesses and Industry

• ALBION THEATRE
• Hurley Block
• BUILDING ANNIVERSARIES
• HURLEY BLOCK
• DALRYMPLE BLOCK ONCE THREE STORIES TALL
• LOTTIE ESLOW BUILDING
• COMMERCIAL HOTEL MOST HISTORIC BUILDING ON W. PORTER ST
• THE FIRE BELL RINGETH
• TELEPHONE POLES ONCE LINED DOWNTOWN ALBION
• CENSOR THEATRE EARLY ALBION CINEMA
• JAMES ESLOW BUILT W. PORTER ST.
• LADIES OF THE MODERN MACCABEES
• THE CAINES PAINT STORE BUILDING
• Elsow Building (photograph)
• THE ESLOW BLOCK, Part 1
• THE ESLOW BLOCK, Part 2
• CAINES PAINT AND WALLPAPER
• Saloon Regulation
• CITIZEN’S BANK TEMPERATURE SIGN
• 1964 ALBION POLICE DEPARTMENT
• ALBION OPERA HOUSE
• ALBION AUXILIARY POLICE
• BULLEN’S
• 1940 SUPERIOR STREET PAVEMENT
• THE MARKET PLACE
• URBAN RENEWAL
• McGUIRE BROTHERS, Part 1. HORSE HEAD TOKEN
• McGUIRE BROTHERS, Part 2
• McGUIRE BROTHERS, Part 3
• THE J. W. BRANT COMPANY
• THE CLIFT BLOCK
• ALBION OPERA HOUSE
• 1964 SUPERIOR STREET SIDEWALK PROJECT
• J. W. BRANT COMPANY
• 1940 SUPERIOR STREET REPBRICKING PROJECT
• THE UNION HOSE FIRE DEPARTMENT
• TELEPHONE POLES ONCE LINED DOWNTOWN ALBION
• HOWARD HALL WAS A MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT CENTER IN ALBION
• EARLY HOTEL SAW LOTS OF BUSINESS
• THE MARKET PLACE IS RICH IN HISTORY
• BOHM THEATRE DATES BACK TO WORLD WAR I ERA
• OPERA HOUSE WAS SCENE OF EARLY ENTERTAINMENT
• McGUIRE SALOON WAS PROMINENT IN EARLY 20th CENTURY
• CORNERSTONE HOLDS CITY’S HISTORY
• IRWIN BLOCK WAS SITE OF NUMEROUS RESTAURANTS
• MURDOCK BLOCK ON ERIE STREET IS FILLED WITH HISTORY
• BULLEN’S BIG BUSY STORE WAS LANDMARK
• PENNEY’S STORE WAS LONG TIME DOWNTOWN FIXTURE
• JOHN SHARP/CHAMBER BUIDLING WAS ONCE LIVERY STABLE
• PARKER-KESSLER BLOCK PROMINENT DOWNTOWN ALBION STRUCTURE
• OLD PHOTO OF DOWNTOWN ALBION WAS TAKEN IN 1870
• ALBION THEATRE WAS ALBION’S SMALLER MOVIE HOUSE
• ALBION ELEVATOR ONCE WAS LOCATED ON SUPERIOR STREET
• WILLIAM STEEL JEWELERS ORIGINAL PREDECESSOR OF GORDON PAHL JEWELRY
• NORMAN H. WIENER BUILDING JUST WEST OF DOWNTOWN
• THE PEABODY BLOCK
• CHARLES BISHOP BOGUE, DOWNTOWN GROCER IN THE 1870s-1880s
• INTERURBAN ONCE RAN THROUGH DOWNTOWN ALBION
• ALBION’S FIRST CITY HALL & FIRE STATION

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  Ethnic Heritages

• POMERANIA
• SOLOMON HURST EARLY BLACK RESIDENT
• GRANDMA BLAKELEY ACTIVE IN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
• ALBION’S ETHNIC MAKE-UP
• THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
• EMANCIPATION DAY
• NATURALIZATION RECORDS IN STATE ARCHIVES
• LITHUANIANS IN ALBION
• SHIP RECORDS
• MEXICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN ALBION
• ETHNIC HISTORY OF ALBION
• EMANCIPATION DAY KEY
• SHIP PASSENGER ARRIVAL RECORDS AVAILABLE IN U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES
• NATURALIZATION RECORDS AN EXCELLENT GENEALOGICAL SOURCE
• INTERNET MESSAGE BOARDS HELP LITHUANIAN GENEALOGY RESEARCH
• LITHUANIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS OF DR. ALEKSANDRAS M. RACKUS
• THE EURO IS COMING TO LITHUANIA JANUARY 1, 2007
• SURNAME MESSAGE BOARDS A GREAT GENEALOGICAL RESOURCE
• DISPLACED PERSONS PERIODICALS VALUABLE GENEALOGICAL RESOURCE
• www.findagrave.com
• The 1993 POPE JOHN PAUL II COMMEMORATIVE 10 LITU COIN
• ALIEN REGISTRATION FORM A GENEALOGICAL RESOURCE
• DETROIT, MICHIGAN “LITHUANIA LUNCH” TOKEN
• NO FLOWERS FOR SMETONA. OHIO CRYPT HOLDS REMAINS OF FIRST LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT
• PALWAUKEE AIRPORT (ILLINOIS) FEATURED ON LITHUANIAN BANKNOTE
• INDIAN DEPARTMENT AT ALBION COLLEGE
• INDIAN DEPARTMENT ONCE EXISTED AT ALBION COLLEGE
• PIONEER FAMILY PROVIDED UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STOP IN ALBION
• 19th CENTURY BLACK HISTORY IN ALBION
• ALBION’S WORLD WAR I BLACK VETERANS
• Lithuanians in Albion, Michigan
• Lithuanian-American Lodge Tokens of Chicago
• The Medals of Petras Rimsa
• Balzekas Lithuanian Museum Articles

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  Fairs, Holidays and Festivals

• FESTIVAL OF THE FORKS
• CALHOUN COUNTY FAIR
• ALBION FAIRGROUNDS
• CALHOUN COUNTY FAIR
• 1954 Christmas Parade (photograph)
• The Great Wallace Shows (photograph)
• CALHOUN COUNTY FAIR
• Santa in downtown Albion circa 1960s (photograph)
• DECORATION DAY
• ALBION VICTORY DAY PHOTOGRAPH, 1919
• 1954 PARADE PHOTO
• CHRISTMAS IN THE 1970s
• ARBOR DAY
• POPPY DAY
• SANTA CLAUS, 1953
• CENTENNIAL PAGEANT
• ALBION 1949 CHRISTMAS PARADE
• ALBION FAIRGROUNDS
• DEPRESSION PARADE
• CENTENNIAL QUEEN COURT
• FESTIVAL OF THE FORKS TRADE DOLLARS
• ALBION CENTENNIAL QUEEN 1935
• CALHOUN COUNTY FAIR TOKEN
• THANKSGIVING A TIME FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS
• FESTIVAL OF THE FORKS 40th ANNIVERSARY
• FRONTIER DAYS PRECEDED FESTIVAL OF THE FORKS
• ALBION ONCE HAD ITS OWN FAIR AND FAIRGROUNDS

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  Famous Americans

• SOJOURNER TRUTH IN ALBION
• General Beadle
• M.F.K. FISHER
• GWEN DEW
• DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. IN ALBION
• The HON. WASHINGTON GARDNER
• WHEN HELEN KELLER CAME TO ALBION
• GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON BEADLE
• GWEN DEW 1927
• A PRESIDENTIAL VISIT
• EZRA CORNELL HAD ALBION TIES
• EZRA CORNELL HAD CLOSE ALBION TIES
• FAMOUS FOOD WRITER M.F.K. FISHER WAS BORN IN ALBION
• Around the World With Gwen Dew

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  Genealogical articles

  Healthcare

• GRANT’S HOSPITAL
• The Smallpox Scare
• SHELDON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
• JAMES W. SHELDON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
• JAMES W. SHELDON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL DEDICATION
• SHELDON HOSPITAL RADIO TOKENS
• Dr. Elizabeth Palmer
• ALBION HOSPITAL ONCE LOCATED ON W. ASH ST
• ALBION HOSPITAL WAS ONCE LOCATED ON WEST ASH ST
• A HISTORY OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN ALBION

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  Houses

• JAMES LAKE COBBLESTONE HOME
• ASAHEL WARNER HOME
• MAHER HOUSE ONCE STOOD ON PARKER INN SITE
• Phinneas Graves house
• CHARLES ENSIGN HOUSE
• THE DAVID PEABODY HOME
• PHINEAS GRAVES HOUSE

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  Industry

  See also Businesses

• ALBION WATER WORKS
• UNION STEEL PRODUCTS
• Cook Gasoline Engine Works
• ALBION WATER WORKS
• UNION STEEL PRODUCTS SITE
• THE MERGER
• National Spring & Wire Co.
• GALE MANUFACTURING WORKERS, 1915
• Red Mill postcard
• ALBION MALLEABLE CORE ROOM WORKERS
• The Malleable Girls
• CHILD LABOR AT THE ALBION MALLEABLE IRON COMPANY
• Mc-GRAW EDISON SERVICE AWARD EMPLOYEES
• ALBION MALLEABLE IRON COMPANY EXECUTIVES
• ALBION MALLEABLE OFFICE BUILDING
• RUSSELL FURNACE FOUNDRY
• ALBION CHEMICAL WORKS
• Original Union Steel plant
• UNION STEEL PRODUCTS 1948 OPEN HOUSE
• J.W. BRANT CO. WORKERS POSTCARD
• ALBION MALLEABLE FOUNDER WARREN S. KESSLER
• SERVICE CASTER AND TRUCK COMPANY
• ALBION COAL MINE, PART I
• ALBION COAL MINE, PART II
• HAYES WHEEL COMPANY
• THE NATIONAL SPRING AND WIRE COMPANY
• ALBION MALLEABLE “CHIPS”
• THE TELEPHONE COMPANY
• ALBION COAL MINE, PART III
• SERVICE CASTER AND TRUCK COMPANY
• WOLCOTT UNION WINDMILL COMPANY
• ALBION MALLEABLE OFFICIALS 1938 PHOTO
• ELMS BUGGY COMPANY
• GALE MANUFACTURING OFFICIALS
• GALE MANUFACTURING COMPANY WORKERS PHOTOGRAPHS
• WHITE'S PROMINENT IN GALE COMPANY
• WHITE'S PROMINENT IN GALE COMPANY
• TOKENS OF THE ALBION MALLEABLE IRON COMPANY
• INDUSTRY PARTICIPATED IN COMMUNITY LIFE
• ALBION MALLEABLE FOUNDERS SUPPORTED THE COMMUNITY
• OIL DISCOVERED BEHIND SUPERIOR STREET BY JESSE CROWELL
• GALE MANUFACTURING COMPANY WAS ONCE LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN ALBION
• UNION STEEL ORIGINALLY LOCATED JUST WEST OF DOWNTOWN ALBION

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  Landmarks

  See also Cemeteries, Downtown, Parks and Streets

• Winter-Lau Field (photograph)
• G.A.R. CANNON
• G.A.R. BOULDER
• 1894 PICTORIAL SOUVENIR OF ALBION
• BAND SHELL 60 YEARS OLD
• E. W. Hollingsworth Post of the G.A.R.
• GAR HALL SERVED CIVIL WAR VETERANS
• MASONIC MURAT LODGE
• SOUTH ALBION POST OFFICE
• TUCHTENHAGEN CLOCK
• Market Place flowing well
• EAGLE TEMPLE
• THE FAIRVIEW PARK ADDITION
• HISTORY OF THE ALBION POST OFFICE
• THE WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION BUILDING
• DAR ROCK
• WILL CURTIS POST AMERICAN LEGION
• Women's Christian Temperance Union
• WELCOME TO ALBION SIGN
• Hodge's Hall
• LLOYD PARK ONCE SITE OF WHITE MILL
• PARKER INN PROMINENT LANDMARK
• HOTEL ALBION STOOD WHERE SHELL STATION STANDS
• WHITE MILL ONCE STOOD AT LLOYD PARK LOCATION
• TREE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
• THE BLACK DITCH

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  Maps

• 1890 BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, PART 1
• 1890 BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, PART 2
• 1890 BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, PART 3
• 1890 BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, PART 4
• 1890 BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, PART 5
• 1890 BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF ALBION, PART 6
• A CAPITAL IDEA
• ECKFORD FREE METHODIST CHURCH
• EXITS ON I-94
• FIRST VILLAGE PLAT MAP SHOWED THE FORKS
• ISMON FAMILY
• LAFOON
• RICE CREEK
• THE CEMENT CASKET COMPANY
• THE FAIRVIEW PARK ADDITION
• THE J. W. BRANT COMPANY
• THE MARKET PLACE
• TOKIO

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  Mother's Day

• MOTHER’S DAY
• A MOTHER'S DAY COMMEMORATIVE ENVELOPE
• JULIET CALHOUN BLAKELEY

  Neighboring places and communities

• CLARENCE TOWNSHIP HISTORY BOOK
• DANINVICK
• DOWNTOWN SPRINGPORT 1870 PHOTOGRAPH
• PARTELLO
• THE VILLAGE OF MARENGO, Part 1
• THE VILLAGE OF MARENGO, Part 2
• THE VILLAGE OF ECKFORD
• RURAL FREE DELIVERY
• DEVEREAUX
• THE OTHER ALBION
• ERNEST STOKOE PROMINENT DEVEREAUX BUSINESSMAN
• DEVEREAUX FURNITURE
• The Homer Index
• SPRINGPORT
• THE VILLAGE OF MARENGO, Part 3: ERIE LAKE
• BATH MILLS
• ALBION LANDING AT DUCK LAKE
• MICHIGAN’S IRISH HILLS
• DUCK LAKE LADIES ENDEAVOR SOCIETY
• QUAKERTOWN
• Sea Serpent at Duck Lake
• STARR COMMONWEALTH CHRISTMAS STAMPS
• Clarence Township Dog Tag 1903 (photograph)
• DUCK LAKE BOAT OFFICE
• FALLING WATERS PARK (Spring Arbor)
• RICE CREEK
• ALBION COUNTY
• CLARENCE TOWNSHIP HISTORY
• ANGOLA, INDIANA
• TOKIO
• LaFOON
• KALAMAZOO
• Mt. CALM LAKE
• GALE OPERATED IN JONESVILLE
• DUCK LAKE TOKEN ISSUED BY BOAT HOUSE

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  Newspapers

• HAYES WHEEL COMPANY HUB NEWSLETTER
• GALE NEWS
• GAFFER NEWS
• BROOKS FOUNDRY NEWS
• JOURNAL OF ALBION
• CIRCLE-A-TOR
• THE ALBION MIRROR
• THE ALBION RECORDER HAS BEEN AROUND ALOT LONGER THAN YOU THINK
• ALBION GAZETTEER LISTINGS PROMOTED COMMUNITY
• Table of Contents for Albion 100 Years Ago articles
• Table of Contents for Morning Star - Albion Historical Notebook
• Table of Contents for Albion Recorder articles

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  Numismatics

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  Organizations

• 1961 BOOSTERS & KNOCKERS CLUB
• 1964 ALBION POLICE DEPARTMENT
• ALBION CITY BAND
• ALBION--JUST RIGHT
• CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
• FRATERNAL ORDER OF THE EAGLES
• GIVE A THOUGHT TO ALBION
• LADIES OF THE MODERN MACCABEES
• MASONIC MURAT LODGE
• MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA No. 1929
• NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION
• RED CROSS ACTIVE IN ALBION’S HISTORY
• THE 1954-55 ALBION CITY COUNCIL
• THOMAS T. LLOYD AND THE ALBION CIVIC FOUNDATION

  Parks

• VICTORY PARK DAM
• VICTORY PARK SWIMMING POOL
• The Waterfall at Victory Park Dam (photograph)
• GOLD STAR PARK
• RIEGER PARK SHELTER
• ALBION CITY BAND
• VICTORY PARK OFFICE BUILDING
• VICTORY PARK

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  People

  See also Businesses

• Wochholz Twins (photograph)
• Lynn Bogue Hunt (photograph)
• ISMON FAMILY
• HENRY S. ISMON
• DAVE EDDY
• MILDRED DUCKWORTH
• William Cullen Hakes
• SIMMONS-CHEEK FAMILY HISTORY
• Frederick Erhardt (photograph)
• “Deacon” Jim McGuire (photograph)
• Dr. ISAAC GRANT
• Lewis Ransom Fiske (photograph)
• Ira D. Sankey
• LUCY TORREY MUDGE
• Carl Schumacher (photograph)
• NATHAN WOOD
• ALBION’S LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, Part 1
• ALBION’S LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, Part 2
• THREE-QUARTERS-CENTURY CLUB
• Godfrey family reunion
• Wellington Bidwell Crane
• THE PASSING SCENE
• AUGUST BAADER
• Hon. William Jennings Bryan
• HORACE S. ISMON
• GEORGE N. DAVIS
• Freundschaft Club
• George T. Bullen
• ROBERTSON FAMILY 150th REUNION
• ALBION IN THE 20th CENTURY
• Governor Aaron T. Bliss
• MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA No. 1929
• Philo Clark
• BOBBY PARKER
• George W. Brail
• James W. Peabody
• FRATERNAL ORDER OF THE EAGLES
• THE MIRIAM COOKBOOK
• ECKFORD FARMER WAS CHAIRMAN OF SPRING ARBOR SEMINARY
• BREAD SLICER INVENTOR LIVED IN ALBION
• SEYMOUR GAY
• HARVEY SWEET
• Willoughby Hartung
• THE ORPHAN TRAIN, Part 1
• ORPHAN TRAIN, Part 2
• SOLOMON & KATIE UNION FAMILY
• Afton A. Dibble
• Mrs. Peabody with Genevieve and Walter (photograph)
• THE GARDNER FAMILY
• 1961 BOOSTERS & KNOCKERS CLUB
• RALPH LOCKE
• Marcus Crane
• MONTFORD B. MURRAY
• Marcus Crane
• Robert Finch
• VIOLET WELBURN
• ORPHAN TRAIN, PART 3
• Charles W. Dalyrmple (photograph)
• Doolittle family reunion
• ALFRED WELBURN
• CHARLES OSBORN
• Amos W. Mingo
• Ethel (Snyder) Tate (photograph)
• MOSES UNION
• GROVER CLEVELAND
• GEORGE V. MATHER
• Bob Abbott (photograph)
• ELLIOTT WOODBRIDGE HOLLINGSWORTH
• 1940 MOOSE LODGE OFFICERS
• George Hannahs (photograph)
• John H. Wiselogel
• Dr. STEPHEN MUNROE
• HIRAM HERRICK
• LOUISA BLODGETT McGEE
• RUSSELL ELUSHIK
• A LETTER FROM THOMAS MORRIS
• Mrs. Arthur Dew
• CHARLES BILLINGHURST--ALBION’S GREATEST HUNTER
• DR. ELMORE PALMER
• HELEN HULL
• THE ALBION HERMIT
• THOMAS T. LLOYD AND THE ALBION CIVIC FOUNDATION
• COLONEL JOSEPH DUCKWORTH
• ARTHUR H. DEW
• LOUISE E. DEW
• LOHRKE BROTHERS
• MIRIAM KRENERICK
• AMOS A. BABCOCK
• JOSEPH A. BALDWIN
• HENRY BROWN
• Dr. LAWRENCE J. HEIDENREICH
• CHARLES BOLDEN
• CYRUS PITT GROSVENOR
• LYNN BOGUE HUNT [I]
• THE SNYDER FAMILY OF CLARENCE TOWNSHIP
• LYNN BOGUE HUNT [II]
• GALE/SHELDON DESCENDANTS
• VICTORIA MICHNIEWICZ
• ULYSSES CURTIS
• JACK HOOD VAUGHN
• RUTH CONNOR
• WILLIAM M. LODER
• ELLIOTT C. GALE
• AUGUSTUS J. GALE
• PEPSI COLA, JOAN CRAWFORD, and ALBION
• DEATH VALLEY DAYS
• THE ALBION HERMIT REVISITED
• Mrs. Elizabeth Squires
• Adelbert Culver
• A PEABODY RETURNS
• V. S. Wolcott
• Miss Agnes Gorton
• THE DOOLITTLE FAMILY
• THE ANSTERBURG FAMILY
• RED CROSS ACTIVE IN ALBION’S HISTORY
• MARY SHELDON ISMON WAS PROMINENT IN 19th CENTURY ALBION
• BENHAM FAMILY REUNION
• FENNER FERGUSON WAS ALBION’S FIRST ATTORNEY
• EZRA CORNELL HAD CLOSE ALBION TIES
• THE ALBION HERMIT REVISITED
• THE ORPHAN TRAIN

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  Politics

• REPUBLICAN PARTY
• SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN ALBION
• OLD ALBION LAWS
• REPUBLICAN PARTY NAMED IN ALBION
• REPUBLICAN PARTY SESQUICENTENNIAL
• THE 1954-55 ALBION CITY COUNCIL
• ALBION MAYORS PHOTOGRAPH
• REPUBLICAN PARTY ASHTRAY, 1938
• UNDER THE OAKS
• PAYOFFS IN THE CLOAKROOM
• A CAPITAL IDEA
• THE MAYOR WHO WASN’T A U.S. CITIZEN
• ELECTION TICKETS
• POSTER A REMINDER OF HOOPER MYSTERY

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  Religion

• EARLY ALBION CHURCH HISTORY
• Rev. ANDREW MASON FITCH
• Rev. Peter A. Baart
• OAK GROVE
• Rev. W. T. Jaquess
• THE OLD RUGGED CROSS--A SEQUEL
• A RUSSIAN FUNERAL
• Baptist Ralley Day
• Albion Tent
• Rev. ANDREW J. LEGGETT
• EASTER ORGAN
• THE OLD RUGGED CROSS
• HENRY SLADE
• SPIRITUALISM IN ALBION
• RUSSIAN BAPTIST CHURCH
• THE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD
• ECKFORD FREE METHODIST CHURCH
• HENRY SLADE
• RUSSIAN BAPTIST CHURCH
• RUSSIAN BAPTIST CHURCH CHOIR
• HOLY ASCENSION ORTHODOX CHURCH
• WAR LORDS THREATENED ALBION MISSIONARIES
• LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
• FITCH STREET CHAPEL
• REV. WILLIAM FARLEY
• THE OLD RUGGED CROSS WRITTEN IN ALBION

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  The Kalamazoo River

• ALBION WATER WORKS 2000 article
• FLOOD OF 1908
• ALBION WATER WORKS 2002 article
• ALBION WATER RESOURCES
• Chickens floating on a doghouse in the flood of 1908
• WATER ELECTRIC POWER
• Dutchtown (photograph)
• DUTCHTOWN, Part 2
• DICKIE'S FOLLY
• DUDEK'S SWIMMING PARK
• CONSUMERS POWERHOUSE
• THE CASS STREET BRIDGE
• KALAMAZOO RIVER MILLPOND DREDGING
• STONE MILL
• CASS SREET BRIDGE
• DUTCHTOWN
• PEABODY/GOTHIC MILLRACE
• LLOYD PARK ONCE SITE OF WHITE MILL
• THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1908
• REMEMBERING THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1908
• WHITE MILL ONCE STOOD AT LLOYD PARK LOCATION
• FIRST VILLAGE PLAT MAP SHOWED FORKS
• AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE USE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE KALAMAZOO RIVER THROUGH ALBION

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  Schools

• DALRYMPLE SCHOOL
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1900
• A VIEW FROM 1939
• INDIAN DEPARTMENT AT ALBION COLLEGE
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1901
• BILLINGHURST SCHOOL
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1971
• 1900 ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS PHOTO
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1902
• AUSTIN SCHOOL, 1935
• SOUTH ALBION’S HOWELL SCHOOL
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1903
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1973
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1904
• SNYDER SCHOOL
• MAYHEW’S PRACTICAL BOOK-KEEPING
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE STARTED NATION’S SCHOOL IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM
• BACK TO SCHOOL
• CLASS MEMORIALS
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL SONGS
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1905
• BABCOCK SCHOOL
• WEST WARD SCHOOL
• DALRYMPLE SCHOOL 1954 AID PACKAGE TO GREECE
• SAFETY PATROL BOYS
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1906
• 1955 DEBATE CHAMPIONS
• NORMA JEAN MILLER SCHOOL OF THE DANCE
• West Ward School
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1893
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1894
• 1931 ALBION HIGH SCHOOL PRINTING CLASS
• 1931 ALBION HIGH SCHOOL COOKING CLASS
• 1931 ALBION HIGH SCHOOL AUTO REPAIR CLASS
• RICEVILLE SCHOOL
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1895
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1896
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL 1939 STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1897
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1898
• ALBION SCHOOL BELL
• BAND ROOM OLDEST PART OF SCHOOL
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL
• ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WING
• WASHINGTON GARDNER HIGH SCHOOL
• RICEVILLE SCHOOL REUNION OF 100 YEARS AGO
• PUTNAM SCHOOL
• ALBION HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1909 PHOTOGRAPH
• DRESS UP DAY
• AUSTIN SCHOOL FIRST “MODERN” ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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  Sports and Hunting

• WINTER-LAU FIELD
• A HUNTING PHOTOGRAPH
• T-BALL INVENTED IN ALBION
• Central Michigan Trap Shooters Association
• 1947 SUMMER RECREATION BALL TEAM
• McGUIRE BASEBALL CARD
• Albion Malleable Iron Company baseball team
• A DEER HUNTING STORY
• CORNING GLASS BALL TEAM
• 50th ANNIVERSARY OF TEE-BALL
• TENNIS
• 1960 TELEVISED T-BALL GAME
• ALBION’S GREATEST HUNTER
• ALBION MERCHANT GIRLS SOFTBALL
• ALBION MALLEABLE GIANTS
• LUEDTKE BROTHERS OFF TO THE RACES
• ALBION ROD AND GUN CLUB
• BRING ON THE MICHIGAN WOLVERINES

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  Streets and sidewalks

  See also Downtown

• NORTH EATON STREET
• PLASTIC ROAD
• MECHANIC'S STREET
• HANNAH STREET
• PAVING THE WAY FOR A SUPERIOR FUTURE
• M-199 ON AUSTIN AVENUE
• IRWIN AVENUE
• ARTHUR STREET
• 1993 SUPERIOR BRICK STREET PROJECT
• STREET SIGN ABNORMALITIES
• Eaton Street bridge plaque (photograph)
• NEWBURG ROAD
• 1901 GEORGE DEAN SIDEWALKS
• BROADWELL AVENUE
• DURKEE & BEILFUSS SIDEWALKS
• N. EATON ST. DEVELOPED IN 1950s
• ERIE STREET IS ALSO PART OF HISTORIC DOWNTOWN ALBION
• FIRST VILLAGE PLAT MAP SHOWED THE FORKS

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  Transportation

• Manning Harness Company
• I-94 RAILROAD CROSSING
• EXITS ON I-94
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY I-94
• Albion’s First Automobile
• The Toledo & Northwestern Railway
• INTERURBAN TRACKS LAID 100 YEARS AGO
• INTERURBAN TICKET
• ROAD PROJECT
• Interurban Railway Bridge
• RAILROAD AN IMPORTANT EARLY ASSET
• Jackson-Battle Creek Traction Company
• INTERURBAN OFFICE BUILDING 100 YEARS OLD
• First electric car
• A DIFFERENT RAILROAD TRESTLE
• Albion Detroit sign (photograph)
• Jackson Battle Creek Traction Co.
• RED ARROW HIGHWAY
• Albion-Charlotte railroad
• Street Car Statistics
• THE LAKE SHORE AND MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD
• THE INTERURBAN
• INTERURBAN CAR REMOVED
• THE LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD
• LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD
• INTERURBAN TRACKS LAID 100 YEARS AGO
• RAILROAD CROSSINGS
• THE LAKESHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD HAS REMNANTS

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  War times

• GROUND OBSERVER CORPS
• GROUND OBSERVER YOUTH VOLUNTEERS
• Albion Victory Ship
• ALBION RIFLE RANGERS
• THE UNION CLINCHERS OF ALBION
• WORLD WAR II VICTORY REPORT
• ALBION SOLDIERS IN WWII NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
• UNION STEEL ARMY-NAVY “E” AWARD
• Panoramic Photograph of Albion WWI Veterans in 1919
• GALE MANUFACTURING COMPANY ISSUED CIVIL WAR TOKEN
• ALBION COLLEGE STUDENT ARMY TRAINING CORPS
• ALBION IN WORLD WAR I
• Comstock Brothers, Albion druggists during Civil War
• Displaced Persons Camp Money

  Youth Organizations

  See also Schools and Religion

• TRIP TO THE DETROIT TIGERS BASEBALL GAME
• PAPERBOYS
• 1950 TALENT SHOW
• CAMP FIRE GIRLS
• CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
• SCOUT TROOP 62

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