Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for August 4, 2025
In 2020, my second book for Arcadia Publishing, ‘Macomb Township’ was published, culminating when finished, a very large learning experience for this author! Having moved to Macomb Township in 1980, at 21 Mile and Garfield Road, we built a house and along with my husband, we raised our two children, and lived there till 2007. Having found out after my first book on ‘Washington Township’ when I naively thought that EVERYONE wants a book about the area they lived in, I found that usually we have to get a bit older, before we really appreciate where we came from, and I was also, a perfect example of that mind set. It wasn’t until I had moved away and started the Macomb book, that I finally got to ‘learn’ about the township/area I had lived in for twenty-seven years! I had watched all the changes but never realized the significance of those changes.
While replenishing my Macomb books at the tax department at the township hall, where they have graciously offered to allow these books to be purchased, I sort of ran into a long time ‘friend’ once again. The ‘original’ township hall.
The original hall was built in 1919 for $1,600, and rested at 19925 23 Mile Road, it would serve the community until a ‘new township hall’ was built in the same location behind the original building in 1974. This was the township hall that we would use to pay the taxes, etc. The original hall, shown above was sold to a farmer/nursery on Romeo Plank Road just north of 23 Mile Road, and used as a shed for machinery for the next almost forty some years.
While the township would eventually purchase the Wade Nursery property, the ‘old township hall’ was again part of the Macomb Township, on property that was slated for a park area. Renovations took place, with the vision of a learning center for the hall that resembled so much of a late century school house. The township was kind enough to allow the use of the newly renovated ‘township hall’ to host the book launch of the book that was bringing the history in vintage images to life in the middle of covid, safely, with masks, no less! Before long this property was again sold, and the hall was once again moved, this time to it’s permanent home in the expanded township complex on Broughton Road off of 25 Mile Road, along with the recreation center, library and newest township hall.
The 1919 era Macomb Township original Hall T it’s new home.
On this ‘wee note’ till next month Monday September 1, 2025.
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