Author: Elizabeth Nofs

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...