Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store
The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store is a company store located at 10816 M-32 East in Johannesburg, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. History The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1901 by lumbermen Ernest Salling, Rasmus Hanson, and Nels Michelson. The trio built Johannesburg as a lumber mill and company town, in the same way as they had built the nearby towns of Grayling Grayling or Greyling may refer to: Animals Fish * Grayling, generically, any fish of the genus ''Thymallus'' in the family Salmonidae ** European grayling (''Thymallus thymallus''), the European species of the genus ''Thymallus'' ** Arctic grayli ..., Salling, and Lewiston. The first building constructed in the new town was this company store, which was used as the headquarters of the company. The store offered hay, grain, ice, and bulky items from sheds behind the store building. The building also housed the offices of the Johann ...
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