My Town Monday: Country Mouse
The delightful Patti Abbott and I paired up again– she’s the City Mouse. She actually likes living in the city… and we paired up this…
Author: Elizabeth Nofs
My Town Monday: A My Town Meme
Couple weeks back, Travis Erwin, the man behind My Town Monday, posted a Meme. I was doing my series on railroads, so I put it…
My Town Monday: 8 Mile Road
8 Mile Road bears significance and importance in Detroit. 8 Mile is the dividing line between the city limits of Detroit and the suburbs. Eminem’s…
My Town Monday: Lakeland Trail & GTW Railroad
The third railroad to run through Livingston County was the Grand Trunk Western. In the 1980s, this train track was dismantled, leaving the rail bed…
My Town Monday: The CSX Railway
There are seven railway crossing in Brighton, where the CSX meets a local road. Seven. And them wonderful CSX train engineers have to hoot the…
My Town Monday: Ann Arbor Railroad
By the late 1800s, Howell was already being served by an East/West train rail that ran from Detroit, to Lansing and then on to points…
My Town Monday: Railroads & Growth
In someways, it seems clear that railroads were instrumental in the growth of some towns. Looking at the towns in Livingston County one can see…
My Town Monday: John Pinckney’s Problem
In 1834, John D. Pinckney left his home in New York. He traveled up the Erie Canal to Buffalo, New York, then took a steamer…
My Town Monday: Old Brighton High School
The title’s not quite right, really, but it’s the best I can come up with for the building. Currently it’s called the BECC building (for…
My Town Monday: Kensington
There is no Kensington, Michigan. Not anymore. Especially not since I-96 was put in through what did remain of the village of Kensington. But there…
