As the logical repository of items of historical value the Society has acquired a listing of local farms and the names given them. The listing gives no clue as to date or origin, compiler, reason for compiling or how these names were determined or bestowed.
Websters 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.
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. Brightons original baseball club was organized as The Maple Leaf Club in 1876. Its first game that year was played . . . against […]
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 […]
Brightons 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
The settlers who came to Michigan Territory in the early 1830s must all be considered entrepreneurs. They came with the intention of staying (in the wilderness), developing a livelihood and assuming all the risks, management, capital and labor. Many came because there was no future for them in the east. The most for which they […]
Truman B. Worden is recorded as a First Land Owner in Genoa Township, Section 25, in the spring of 1835. The Genoa Township parcel included most of the lake, which now bears his name. He also purchased property in Brighton Township, Section 31. (However, he didnt live on that property; he apparently lived in a […]
The 1880 census is the first that records the John Duckering family in Livingston County. By then they are well settled into their home on Pleasant Valley Rd., south of Hyne Road. The household includes John (38), his wife Emily (or Erma, 33) and four children, two boys and two girls ages 2-10. (Two more […]
