The canning factory in Union City, Michigan is noted on this picture postcard.
The dam is located on the Coldwater River to keep the water level going into the mill race to the right of the picture high enough to power the floor mill. The bridge in the background is for the Michigan Central Railroad.
The picture on this postcard is of a Michigan Central Passenger Train crossing the Coldwater River in the background. The dam on the left is on the Coldwater River with the waterway on the right flowing into the mill race for the Flour Mill. The postcard picture was postmarked 1916
.The map is a cropped section of a map of Union City found on page 18 & 19 in the "Standard Atlas of Branch County, Michigan; compiled and published by George A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1915".
Note - The top of the arrow indicates from where the picture of the train was taken (from the mill race bank looking south towards the railroad bridge that crosses the Coldwater River.
