Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Ellen Street looking west from Ann Street - 1916


Copy of a postcard sent to me by Bill Gough a grandson of Ethel Corbin.  Top of the old schoolhouse seen in the background.

Note sent with the picture - A postcard postmarked Apr. 11, 1916 from my grandfather John Corbin to Ethel visiting her father (Cassius Reed) in Durand, MI.  Caption - "Ellen St. looking west from Ann, Union City, Michigan." 

Bridge Washed Out during the 1908 Flood


Copy of the picture sent to me by Bill Gough a grandson of Ethel Corbin.  Picture is of a crowd gathered on the south side of Broadway looking at the bridge that washed out during flooding on March 8, 1908.