Posted on 08/20/2015 2:35:25 PM PDT by cripplecreek
Photo of my hometown of Hanover Michigan taken by my great grandfather in 1913.
Very cool. Are any of those buildings still standing?
I lived in one of the buildings about 20 years ago but it has since been torn down. 3 of the buildings at the far left are still standing and what used to be the bank (One story with large front windows) is still standing but has been a bar all my life)
Kewl! Thanks for sharing.
As many times as I have driven M-60, I have never run through Hanover. I will next time.
They had wireless technology decades before the rest of the world!
What a world. Love it!
In New York the state libraries have put all the old newspapers on the internet. Some go back to the 1840’s.
http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org
It is *the best* place to learn about what life was really like for our ancestors. If someone took a wagon into town, it was in the newspaper. If someone fell off a hay wagon or had the measles, it was in the newspaper.
You say you are interested in the history of New Jersey? I have some sources of information about the families that founded the towns in NJ if you are interested.
Ahhhh.....barrel racing.
I always bet that the barrels will win the race.
Lost a lot of money that way.
I saw several poles. Wondered if they were electricity, but nahhh..
Had to be telegraph.
Great picture.
bump for later
My Great Grandfather was in East Lansing MI at that time. He is buried there as well with my Great Grandmother.
That is really, really cool. Thanks so much!
My great grandparents and my grandfather are all buried almost directly beneath the spot where the photo was taken. I have only a vague memory of the church that was there.
“No electric poles visible, no telegraph lines visible.”
Look a little closer at the bottom of the pic
They are there, you have to scroll to the bottom. That said, I was amazed when I went out west last year that there were still telegraph poles going through some fields, with no wires attached.
In the East, that stuff gets torn down or re purposed. It is amazing we have anything here that hasn’t been ground up and regurgitated. I like it out west better.
Why is it that young men (who from the time of the invention of the camera mug it up for the picture) look much older than the same aged men today? A similar photo today, of kids the same age in the same poses would look like babies.
My great grandfather passed on a few photos from that era. Thanks for sharing yours.
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