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The Howell Boomers Club, Howell, Livingston, Michigan 1914-1919

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This image was included in the First National Bank calendar. The Howell Boomers Club, formerly known as the Howell Commercial Club (1910) worked to raise monies to pave Grand River Avenue  and also helped the city obtain streetlights.

The "Great Wolverine Pavedway" was a brick road connecting Lansing to Detroit, Grand River Avenue as it passed through Howell.

Between 1919 and 1948, the Howell Boomers Club became the Howell Board of Commerce, and in 1949, it reorganized as the Howell Chamber of Commerce.

Car also has sign "We Just Got Married". unknown people

Read the February 8, 1998 The Brighton Argus & the Livingston County Press article to learn of Grand River Ave history.

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