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Bronner's Christmas Wonderland (stylized BRONNER'S CHRISTmas WONDERLAND) is a retail store in Frankenmuth, Michigan, that promotes itself as the "World's Largest Christmas Store". [ 1 ] Designed with an Alpine architecture (see chalet ), the building is 7.35 acres (2.97 ha) in size with landscaped grounds covering 27 acres (11 ha).
Frankenmuth's Oktoberfest is considered one of the most important and popular autumn festivals in the United States. Frankenmuth Bavarian Festival: This is Michigan's largest Bavarian heritage festival. Beginning in 1959, it is an annual summer celebration of Bavarian culture and values through food, drink, traditional activities and music.
Frankenmuth Township is a civil township of Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,895 at the 2020 Census . [ 3 ] The city of Frankenmuth is located within the survey township area, but the township and city are administrated autonomously.
The Frankenmuth Credit Union Event Center (formerly Birch Run Expo Center) was a 2,500 seat multi-purpose arena in Birch Run, Michigan. However, it was sold to Camping World in November 2020 and is now one of their largest showrooms. Prior to 2002, it was the first NHL Skate center. Due to lack of interest, it was converted into an events center.
In the early 19th century, Christmas festivities and services became widespread with the rise of the Oxford Movement in the Church of England that emphasized the centrality of Christmas in Christianity and charity to the poor, [66] along with Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, and other authors emphasizing family, children, kind-heartedness ...
Major events held at Crossroads Village include 19th-century "school days" field trips for students and teachers at Stanley Schoolhouse (which dates to 1883), [14] an annual Labor Day picnic and parade, [15] a Railfans Weekend, [16] Halloween [17] [18] and Christmas festivities in the village, [19] and Day out with Thomas train excursions ...
The Christmas season got off to a roaring start with Franklin's annual Dickens of a Christmas festival last week. For 38 years, the festival has featured small businesses, performances and a ...
Memory Lane Arcade was an arcade amusement park located in Frankenmuth, Michigan. It was opened on April 29, 1975 [2] by Dennis R. Atkinson and his wife Irene. It closed on November 28, 2004. [3] It is notable for its collection of old-fashioned activities, including coin-operated fortune tellers, arcade games, roll-playing instruments and ...