Original Art by: Susan Sanderson Title: Railroad Repair GangLocation: Brewery Becker500 E Main St. Susan Sanderson is a local artist specializing in painted works using acrylics, watercolor, pastel, and mixed drawing media. She believes artwork has a responsibility to engage, entertain, and educate the viewer on many diverse levels. Her background in mechanical drafting and […]
Original Art by: Leah Kucharek Title: “Johnny Blessed”Location: Brighton Chamber of Commerce, 218 E Grand River Ave
EXHIBITS at CoBACH Sunday – Friday, 5-8 pm Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm Closed Monday CoBACH Display April – June “World War I” Learn about the local WWI veterans that served our country as the 100th Anniversary of WWI takes place this year. Over 100 local veterans have their photos and their service records on exhibit. See letters […]
Have you ever wondered how orders were given by the officers’ during a typical day to the hundreds of soldiers in camp? How about during a battle with the piercing sounds of booming cannon fire and musket rifle blasts? The man whose job was to sound the commanders’ orders was the bugler. The bugler played […]
Wirt Beurmann and wife lived and farmed at THE MAPLES at the turn of the century. The 95 acres were located on the north side of Brighton Road, just east of Clifford.
A mother gave birth to her only child October 10, 1820, in Ireland. Not long after she died. Her husband, Julian Carter, emigrated to the United States, settling in Oswego, New York, the following year. The child, John L., was raised in Ireland by his grandparents.
As early as 1785 the Brighton area was under the influence of the Federal Ordnance of that year. This ordnance called for a survey, prior to settlement, of the lands north and west of the Ohio River to the Mississippi. These lands were ceded to the U.S. at the end of the Revolutionary War in […]
Among the press of pioneers from the east, Cyrenus Morgan and brothers, Nathaniel G. Sr, and Benjamin, came from New York to Michigan to find new homes, 1835-37. The opening of the Erie Canal, in 1825, greatly reduced the labor, time, danger and expense of the journey.
Originally purchased by Richard J. and Martha Lyons in 1834, the W ½ SE ¼ and E ¼ SW ¼ of Section 22, Brighton Township, was in the hands of Henry Weber c. 1900. At that time the original 120 acres totaled 118.5 acres. In 1842 Richard and Martha had set aside land for use […]
Each year in Brighton the Veterans’ Organizations conduct Memorial Day observances. This has been happening since May 30, 1884, when the Samuel B. Appleton Post #179 of the G.A.R. held Memorial Services for their fellow comrades.
