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The Dowagiac Area History Museum on West Railroad Street, in Dowagiac, Michigan has the largest public collection of Round Oak heating stoves in the world. The museum's vast collection includes (in addition to stoves) artifacts related to P.D. Beckwith's grain drill and early stove business, advertising, company ledgers and papers, workers ...
The Edward E. Hartwick Memorial Building is a 1-1/2 story rustic log structure built entirely of Michigan pine, and is one of the few remaining examples of the rustic log architecture used in the 1920s and 1930s by the Michigan State Park system.
In 1866, he moved to Owosso and opened a wood sash, blind, and door manufacturing company, the first of many woodworking companies to establish themselves in Owosso. Through the 1870s and 1880s, Woodard grew his business to include furniture and caskets in addition to sash, blinds, and doors.
The Pabst Mine disaster was an incident that occurred on September 24, 1926, at the Pabst Iron Mine in Ironwood, Michigan, United States, when a mine shaft containing 46 iron ore miners unexpectedly collapsed. Three miners were killed in the initial collapse, while 43 survivors were left trapped for 129 hours.
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In 1892, the store is identified as John Russell's general store. For some time, the upstairs was used by the Masonic Temple, and then in 1910 was used by R. F. Dundon's Actual Business College. Russell retired in 1924 and leased the first floor storefront to the Chalmers & Burns Confectionery, who occupied the space until 1937.
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He has also written A History of Genesee County, Michigan, and a great number of shorter articles on the history of Michigan and the old North-western Territory. Notre Dame University of Indiana conferred on Wood in 1916 the honorary degree of LL. D. He was a great reader, and his private library contained about twelve thousand volumes.