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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”
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Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s With in the next week or two the fall issue of ‘Macomb Now’ magazine should be out for public viewing. A few months ago, I was contact by the editor of the magazine to ask if I would be interested in making a submission to the portion of the magazine calledContinue reading “A ‘Wee’ Sneak Peak”
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Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’ There is a house that has seen much in over 160 years, and probably, over the years a big variation in the amount and type of traffic passing by it on Mound Road in Washington Township. Really my story starts with Josiah Jewell from Genessee County, New York, and his originalContinue reading “Jackson Crissman’s Home”
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In 1858 Loren Andrus (1816-1901) with help of his brother in law David Stewart built, over a period of two years, his two story, eight sided home. The roof has extravagant Italianate supporting brackets and an octagonal cupola with weatherboard sheathing on top. A large porch supported by wooden Neo-Corinthian columns wraps around seven sidesContinue reading “Washington’s Octagon”
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Linda’ Monday Morning Moaning’s Washington Township: An article in the Romeo Observer from the 9th of January 1929 it would read: “On the 7th of January 1929, two neatly dressed young men walked into the Washington Savings Bank, soon after the bank had opened that Monday morning, and as described later, one of the menContinue reading “The 1929 Washington Savings Bank Robbery”
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