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Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store c 1906. The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1901 by lumbermen Ernest Salling, Rasmus Hanson, and Nels Michelson. [2] The trio built Johannesburg as a lumber mill and company town, in the same way as they had built the nearby towns of Grayling, Salling, and Lewiston. The first ...
Craftsman — re-branded Chamberlain models sold at Sears. Those products have a "139" model prefix to denote that the Chamberlain Group made them for Sears. Clicker — a line of universal garage door remotes. Chamberlain, LiftMaster, and Craftsman have interchangeable parts, primarily the gear and circuit boards.
Johannesburg (/ dʒ oʊ ˈ h æ n ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / joh-HAN-iss-burg) is an unincorporated community in Otsego County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [2] Located within Charlton Township, the community lies between Gaylord and Atlanta along the route of M-32. As an unincorporated community, Johannesburg has no legally defined boundaries or ...
The community began as a station on the Michigan Central Railroad and settled around the Johannesburg Manufacturing Company sawmill. A post office opened on January 7, 1901. [7] The Johannesburg 49751 ZIP Code serves most of Charlton Township and portions of the surrounded area.
Chamberlain Engineering, a former auto racing team; Chamberlain Group, a manufacturer of garage door openers; Chamberlain Tractor, or Chamberlain John Deere, a brand of Agricultural Tractor and the company that made them; Operation Chamberlain, an American military operation during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
Marvin H. Chamberlain was born in Woodstock Township, Michigan in Lenawee County on November 5, 1842, the son of Philonzo Chamberlain. [1] He attended the district school until the age of 15; in 1859-60 he taught school in Lenawee County, and in 1860 entered Hillsdale College. [1]
As of the census [1] of 2000, there were 1,265 people, 481 households, and 370 families residing in the township. The population density was 18.7 inhabitants per square mile (7.2/km 2).
Chamberlain's first Parliamentary campaign in 1874 was a fierce one; opponents accused him of republicanism and atheism and even threw dead cats at him on the speaking platform. Chamberlain came in third—a poor result for a leading urban Radical—and rejected the possibility of standing in Sheffield again.