Howell Area Archives Digital Archive

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  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-0063_u.jpg

    This image was included on the First National Bank Calendar.  Greenaway Building on the northeast corner of Grand River Avenue and Division Street (Michigan Avenue), with a group of men standing out front at the community drinking fountain.

    Howell, Livingston, Michigan, 1914

    Business names visible are (left to right): Geo. H. Chapel & O. J. P?, Larkin & Kruger Groceries
  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-0064_u.jpg

    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.
  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-0068_u.jpg

    This image was included in the First National Bank Calendar, 10-1996.  Caption under calendar image, "Employees of Garland's Tailor shop, the largest employer in Livingston County at the turn of the century, made suits and top coats for men throughout the Midwest.  The shop was located in the east half of Gilroy's under the Opera House."

    This image shows Employees, of Garland's Tailor Shop, East side of Opera House next to Hardware, West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan.

    A note in "The Howell Bicentennial History" Book, 1975, p. 224, "The workroom at Garland's tailor shop.  At one time, this was the largest business in Howell."

    Date of photo: unknown

    Names of persons in photo: unknown
  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-0070_u.jpg

    This image was included on the1st National Bank Calendar, and depicts highway construction,  date unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-0076_u.jpg

    This image was included on the First National Bank Calendar, 6-1996.

    The caption on the calendar reads, "The Oak Grove Hotel, pictured, in 1910, was located on the north side of street, east of the General Store. 

    The name of the street was "Faucett Road".  

    Names of person in photo: unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-0079_u.jpg

    This photograph was included in 1st National Bank Calendar  photographs.   The early fairgrounds was located off Catrell Street in Howell Michigan.

    Date of this photo: unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-0081_u.jpg

    This image was included on the First National Bank Calendar, and is of the Depot at Lakeland Michigan.  This Depot was located on the Ann Arbor Railroad.

    The date of the photograph is unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-0082_u.jpg

    Oak Grove Saw Mill, Cohoctah Township, Livingston, Michigan - 1900 On the horse harness it says H. Brown

    This image was included in the 1st National Bank Calendar, and features loading of logs at the Oak Grove sawmill, Oak Grove, Livingston, Michigan.

    This photograph is labeled, "Oak Grove hauling logs to sawmill"; Oak Grove, Cohoctah, Livingston, Michigan.

    Date on photo 1900.

    Persons in pictures: unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-0083_u.jpg

    This image titled "Howell Lake" was included in the 1st National Bank Calendar.

    This is a photo of Thompson Lake, also known as Howell Lake, about 1897.
  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-0084_u.jpg

    This image was included in the First National Bank Calendar, and is dated 1898.

    The names of those persons in this photograph are unknown.
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