[PDF] The Brighton Area eBook

Author : Genal Pratt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0738593672

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In 1867, with a clear vision, steady growth, and prosperity, the village of Brighton was forged in the freshly cut tracks of wagon wheels. Eager settlers poured in from the East, and the Brighton area exploded with fertile farms and bustling businesses, quickly necessitating a train station, electricity, paved roads, and freeways. Rich in its farming roots and unique in its journey, Brighton has emerged as one of the most desirable Michigan communities to live in today. Follow the visual transformation from its humble yet arduous beginnings to the thriving modern business town it has become. This treasured collection of photographs provides a fascinating historical record of the people, farms, and businesses that drove the unstoppable development of Brighton through the 19th and 20th centuries. The architecture, landscape, and cherished character of Brighton tell the stories that embody the foundation of the community today.

Author : Genal Pratt
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531663407

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In 1867, with a clear vision, steady growth, and prosperity, the village of Brighton was forged in the freshly cut tracks of wagon wheels. Eager settlers poured in from the East, and the Brighton area exploded with fertile farms and bustling businesses, quickly necessitating a train station, electricity, paved roads, and freeways. Rich in its farming roots and unique in its journey, Brighton has emerged as one of the most desirable Michigan communities to live in today. Follow the visual transformation from its humble yet arduous beginnings to the thriving modern business town it has become. This treasured collection of photographs provides a fascinating historical record of the people, farms, and businesses that drove the unstoppable development of Brighton through the 19th and 20th centuries. The architecture, landscape, and cherished character of Brighton tell the stories that embody the foundation of the community today.

Author : Walter Romig
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Gazetteers
ISBN : 9780814318386

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From Aabec in Antrim County to Zutphen in Ottawa County, from Hell to Hooker, Michigan Place Names is a compendium of information on the origins of the state's geographical names. With alphabetically arranged thumb-nail sketches, Walter Romig introduces readers to a host of colorful personalities and episodes which have achieved notoriety, though sometimes shortlived, by devising or lending their names to the state's settlements. Romig spent more than ten years researching and documenting the entries to which he added an extensive bibliography of sources and an index of the personal names used in the text. For the curious, the librarian, the genealogist, or the historian, his book is an indispensable resource. Michigan Place Names is another "Michigan classic" reissued as a Great Lakes Book.

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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : Marion Cornett
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
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ISBN : 9781734481501

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An Oral Storytelling by past and present residents of the Brighton Gardens Lake Colony, located in Livingston County Michigan.Started in 1919 to present.Early land purchases in Brighton Gardens from 1879 through 1980.Early settlers of Brighton Gardens Lake Colony.History of Brighton Gardens Lake Colony.A man with a vision - Birney Walker Smith, Sr. - searched north of Detroit to purchase land to create, which he often called, the "Promised Land." The year was 1919. By the following year, he owned farm land and an old farmhouse and proceeded to plat eighty acres, just outside of Brighton, Michigan. He called the development Brighton Gardens Lake Colony.His dream was to develop a resort-like setting for prosperous Black African-American professionals to either get away from the big city on the weekends or to set up full-time residences in this rural setting.He, himself, was a professional, working for Wayne County as well as serving as a "caller" at high society soirees, hosted by such notables as the Ford family, J.L. Hudson, and many more. Read the story of how this community came together in the early 1900s in the midst of the "Great Migration" out of the south. And, learn of those settling into this peaceful, nature-enhanced environment, positioned along Lyons Lake, just east of Brighton.