Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for August 7th 2023 Today, is the National Lighthouse Day, so it is a day to give some thought to these giants of maritime navigation that are still trying to survive. While not technically needed to do the jobs their were first intended to do, their historical significance in teachingContinue reading “Thorington School – Part Two”
Category Archives: Washington Township
Changes to the Weekly Blog
Linda’s First Monday Monthly Moaning’s I will be making a change from here on as far as the weekly, Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s blog. I am finding that with the research time and writing time, I am spending on this latest book, it is making it harder to spend the time needed to gather theContinue reading “Changes to the Weekly Blog”
Mount Vernon, Part Two
Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s Back to Mount Vernon, when Robert Eldredge wrote in ‘Past and Present of Macomb County’ in 1905, that “Mount Vernon, which is situated in section 19 and 30 of Washington Township is a thriving little village community, in which has gathered a number of business houses, two churches and a blacksmithContinue reading “Mount Vernon, Part Two”
Mount Vernon, Washington
Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s Patriotism ran strong among the early pioneering settlers to this area. They named the township and village after our first President (Washington) and a village after his Virginia estate (Mount Vernon). Since there were many of Scottish descent arriving new to the area, the name was easily approved. The ruggedly hillyContinue reading “Mount Vernon, Washington”
The story of the ‘Free Public Library’
Linda’a Monday Morning Moaning’s The ‘Romeo Free Public Library’, was a story, I found most interesting and wanted to share the research I had found about this great library. Samuel and Nancy Kezar, from Turner, New York lived in a Queen Anne style home on Church Street in Romeo, that they built in 1894. SamuelContinue reading “The story of the ‘Free Public Library’”
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