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Scans of Commercial Record newspaper clippings about the installation or replacement of sidewalks from 1868 to 1905
cr1868091204-SidewalkSpearandHollandSts.jpg; South side of Spear St. to Holland St., and west side of Holland St. to Moore's addition, west side of Butler St. across public square
cr1868092604SidewalkWSidePubSquare.jpg cr1868112103SideWalks.jpg cr1870061803NewCrossWalksBeingBuilt.jpg cr1870081303Sidewalks.jpg cr1871072903DouglasSidewalk.jpg; east side of block owned by T.B. Dutcher and Thomas Gray, north side of Center St. between School House and L. Upsa's place cr1871081903DouglasSidewalks.jpg; Spring St. in Douglas, south side of Center St. cr1877052501CrossWalks-SidewalkRepairs.jpg; Amos B. Titus cr1877061501PalzerSidewalkMasonSt.jpg; H. Palzer lot on Mason St. cr1877061501SidewalkHoffmanSt.jpg; Hoffman St. between Butler and Griffith repaired cr1877072007NicholsStoreNewSidewalk.jpg; S.D. Nichols lot on Butler St. cr1877081706SAMorrisonSidewalk.jpg; corner of Butler and Culver replaced cr1877083105NewSidewalkHoffmanSt.jpg; Hoffman St. opposite Congregational church cr1878052401SaugatuckSidewalks.jpg; In front of B.A. Maxsons cr1880091001SidewalkAlleganHill.jpg; Allegan Hill replaced cr1900101901CementWalkOnHollandSt.jpg; Cement sidewalk on Holland St. cr1902053005CementWalksOnRodaProperty-Pumpernickels.jpg; south and east sides of Pumpernickles cr1902062005StatusofCementWalks.jpg; west side of Butler between Mason and Culver cr1905062301SidewalkOnLakeSt.jpg; Lake Street from foot of Allegan St. to Mr. Ward's property

2024.01.14

Knowing what year a sidewalk was first laid is helpful for dating old photographs and tracks the development of the town.

NewspapersTransportation: highway and road infrastructure

Winthers, Sally

2024.01

Yoder, Chris

Donation, unconditional

These Commercial Record newspaper clippings — scanned by Chris Yoder in the 2000s — had been available on the pre-2023 SDHC website. The content has been moved to this online catalog for safekeeping. Publication dates are indicated in the year/month/day/page file name. For example "cr1938102801Description.jpg" = Commercial Record, 1938, October, 28th, page 01

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202 Butler/Pumpernickle's/Carl's AG/Richard Roda's Billiard Hall/Union Hotel 1870Tuck's Pandora Christmas Shop/252 Butler/East of the Sun/Cabin Tavern/Walz's Butcher Shop/Nichols Bldg.Gray, Thomas 1820-1895Kirby, John 1829-1882Robb, A.Palzer, Herbert 1824-1893Morrison, Stephen A. Jr. 1815-1905First Congregational Church Saugatuck

03/08/2024

03/08/2024