Warren Michigan Fotos early 1900s

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Even More Warren Fotos

Early Steam Locomotive from Bay City may have run on the Detroit to Bay City Line


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Once common. No nails or wire required. This is known as a split rail

fence.


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Children placing time capsule at Warren Union Cemetery

See history of Warren Union Cemetery for details.


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The Groesbeck family was the earliest to buy land and became wealthy. They owned a lot of land in Warreand ran a sawmill. Then they commenced to be lawyers.


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Many children died young from diseases we now have cures for. We need more medical

research. Several Green family members remains are probably now still under the playgroun

of the Briarwood Elementary school where the oldest cemetery in Warren is located. See th

history of Warrens oldest cemetery.


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Circa 1890's on Chicago Road Looking West


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Many local buildings were made from bricks made right here in Warren and Center Line


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Milk from the cow went from pails to big very clean milk cans.

In days before refrigeration milk spoilage led to a condition called Summer Complaint

which was an irritation of the bowels from which many children and adults died. There are

no doubt many buried in Warren Union Cemetery because of this. And in the early days th

poor farmers home was the funeral home and there was no funeral director. Also in the

early days most families usually did not have money for gravestones. The result was many

unmarked graves at Warren Union Cemetery.

A family donated a nice granite marker as a memorial to these pioneers and children who

have unmarked graves without cost to the city. Vigilantes stole this granite memorial. It wa

later discovered that they had been directed to do so by 3 officers of the Warren Historical

Society which has 8-12 active members. These people acted on their own without a public

hearing or vote of the membership. The robbery was timed so that the cemetery caretaker

would be at the dedication of a historical plaque elsewhere. They could not come up with

justification why they stole this stone. At a Later public meeting they found nothing wrong

with the stone. It appears that they were going to sell it to a granite buyer but when the whe

the police started investigating they put that stone along with four other new expensivegranite stones they had stolen into storage. What a black eye for our city when a group wh

is supposed to protect our history destroys it.


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According to research done by Martha Ruth Burczyk she states

The First Savings Bank was on the west side of Main Street and south of the Frank Peck stor

and the first post office. It was organized in 1902 as a private bank by Charles A. Burr f (a

left with bow tie), who served as president, and Arthur Newberry. It became a state savings

bank in 1908, with capital stock of #20,000. The bank expanded and moved to Charles Burr

property in 1926 where the Warren Hotel used to be. This photograph was taken around

1915. From Images of America Warren by Martha Ruth Burczyk. Note I love this book an

was proud to be asked to write the introduction in this book.


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