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  • Garland's Tailor Shop, Howell, Livingston, Michigan

    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
  • Harold Wright

    This is a portrait of Harold Wright, and unknown woman, and this image was included in the First National Bank Calendar.

    Date of photo: unknown.
  • Harold Wright

    This image was included in the 1st National Bank Calendar - (White), labeled "Harold Wright".

    Name of person featured unknown.
  • Harold Wright

    A portrait of Harold Wright.

    This image was included in First National Bank Calendar , Howell, Livingston, Michigan.

    Date unknown
  • The Howell Boomers Club, Howell, Livingston, Michigan 1914-1919

    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.
  • Greenaway Building, Howell, Livingston, Michigan, 1914

    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
  • Knights Templar Conclave, Howell, Livingston, Michigan, 1913

    This image was included on the First National Bank Calendar, and was taken just east of the Grand River Avenue and Division Street (Michigan Avenue) intersection, in 1913, and shows members of the commandery in their cars.

    Driver of car on right: Henry Spencer.

    Driver of car (1912 Paige) in center: Elmer Smith.

    Other persons: unknown.
  • Houghtaling Rural School, Cohoctah Township, Livingston, Michigan

    This photograph of the interior of the Houghtaling Rural School was included on the 1st National Bank Calendar.

    The Houghtaling Rural School was located on the west side of Oak Grove Road near the intersection of Stelzer Road.

    Unknown persons

    Date unknown
  • Grand River Avenue Paving, Howell, Livingston, Michigan

    This photograph was included on the 1st National Bank Calendar.   The view is  facing northeast at the intersection of Grand River Avenue and Division Street (Michigan Avenue). 

    On the north side of Grand River is the store front of Henry J. Sweet, a civil war veteran and proprieter of this grocery store.

    Date unknown
  • Oak Grove Depot, Oak Grove, Livingston, Michigan

    This image was included in the 1st National Bank Calendar.

    Oak Grove Railroad Depot, Oak Grove, Livingston, Michigan

    Date: unknown
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