Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary- Banking: an establishment for the custody, loan, exchange or issue of money, for the extension of credit and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange.

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The 75th Anniversary issue of the Brighton Argus, printed in 1955, includes many references to earlier events.  Among them was a recounting of an 1880 ball game between Brighton and Fowlerville.  Brighton’s original baseball club was organized as The Maple Leaf Club in 1876.  Its first game that year was played . . . against […]

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By the late 1920s it because necessary to consider the construction of another building in which to educate the children of the area, which now included high school pupils from outlying districts.  The story is told that a dispute arose as the location of this school.  To settle the argument, Thomas S. Leigh, school board […]

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Brighton’s first electric lighting plant was built in 1897 by Carl Conrad.  He installed wiring in local homes virtually free of charge to encourage the use of electricity for lighting and operating small appliances.  On all but moonlit nights, the streets of downtown Brighton were soon illuminated by arched strings of light bulbs.  The Brighton […]

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The Indians were the first to feel the effects of the migration of people into the Brighton area, the first to be displaced by an influx of newcomers.  Most who have lived here for the past 50 years are very aware of the changes which have taken place more recently.  The flood of people moving […]

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Struggling through the wet area in the southeast corner of Genoa Township (at that time the north half of Hamburg Township) around the lake (Lime Lake), it was with relief Henry Earl arrived on higher ground. But what a steep hill to climb! Henry Earl examined the 160 acres he had purchased from the U.S. […]

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