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Canton's loamy soil was a natural draw
to the region's settlers. From 1825 to the 1960s farming was the main vocation in Canton. At first, self-sustaining farms provided the only food and income for a family. By the 1920s, automobiles, tractors and trucks …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1YSE_ransom-eli-olds-breakthrough_Lansing-MI.html
P.F. Olds founded a prosperous machine shop here on River Street, repairing and building steam and gasoline engines. His was one of many Lansing Manufacturing plants that produced small engines, carriages, windmills and other equipment used by farmers and b…
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After fire destroyed the new Olds Motor Works plant in Detroit on March 9, 1901, the Lansing Business Men's Association offered Olds land originally acquired in hopes of permanently hosting the State Fair. He took it. His new plant produced only the curved …
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The road, cutting across downtown Lansing, was given the name "Olds Freeway' in honor of Ransom E. Olds. The new freeway reflected a national trend as workers moved out of the cities to suburban homes. I-496 spurred growth in the suburbs, but claimed many s…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1ZE7_settling-the-dust_West-Bloomfield-Township-MI.html
The lakes and landscape of Oakland County weren't ready
for the automobile in the early 1900s. Weekend visitors, in noisy "self-propelled" vehicles, churned up dust on unpaved roads and trespassed on private property. To address these difficulties, women f…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1ZEN_remembering-historic-railways_West-Bloomfield-Township-MI.html
Two railways came together here.
The West Bloomfield Trail follows the path of the Grand Trunk Railroad, built through the region in the 1880s. If you were standing here in 1900, you also would see a light rail trolley line that ran along Orchard Lake Road…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1ZEU_waiting-for-the-trolleys_West-Bloomfield-Township-MI.html
The trolleys made it easy to travel
through the lakes of Oakland County. In the early 1900s people got off or waited at platforms that were built for access to the track. The Detroit United Railway (DUR) bought land from local farmers for the track and wai…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1ZFX_the-orchard-lake-museum_West-Bloomfield-Township-MI.html
The Orchard Lake Museum has been an intersection
where paths cross and people meet. The first building here was a small tavern named the Orchard Lake House, built in 1857 for stagecoach travelers. Various owners rebuilt and enlarged the site, later named t…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1ZG6_gateway-to-nature_West-Bloomfield-Township-MI.html
Many Detroiters escaped to nature on the trolleys
of the Detroit United Railway (DUR) in the early 1900s. The Orchard Lake Beach stop was located here, where the parallel Grand Trunk Railroad and DUR trolley tracks crossed Orchard Lake Road. It was a very …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1ZG8_tracks-over-tracks_West-Bloomfield-Township-MI.html
Transportation transformed the landscape of rural West Bloomfield
as electric trolleys and automobiles appeared around the turn of the 20th century. Many people traveled here for the first time from Detroit and Pontiac, and real estate developers sold lake…