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The Brooklyn Exponent
''The Brooklyn Exponent'' is a weekly newspaper serving the communities in and around Brooklyn, Michigan and the Irish hills, Michigan. __NOTOC__ History The ''Brooklyn Exponent'' was started on September 1, 1881 by Charles Clough. It was a five-column quarto, and independent on all public questions. It aimed to give a fair mention of local happenings, together with general international news. At his death on September 30, 1884, his widow, Ethlyn, took over the business and ran the newspaper for eighteen years. The paper covered the Brooklyn are, as well as the general Irish Hills, Cement City, Michigan, Clark Lake, Michigan and Napoleon, Michigan areas. In June 1965, ''The Brooklyn Exponent'' changed its production format from broadsheet to tabloid, and expanded its coverage to the Addison, Michigan, Onsted, Michigan, Manitou Beach, Michigan and Somerset, Michigan communities. Following the closing of the Grass Lake Times in 2021, the Exponent further expanded its coverage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn, Michigan
Brooklyn is a village in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,206 at the 2010 census. It is located in the Irish Hills region of southern Michigan, just north of U.S. Route 12 along M-50. The village is located within Columbia Township. The village is well known for its proximity to Michigan International Speedway, which is just south in Cambridge Township. History The village was founded by Calvin Swain, who filed the first land claim on June 16, 1832 and named his settlement Swainsville. In a town meeting vote on August 5, 1836, the community elected to change the town's name to Brooklyn. The town is named after Brooklyn, New York. A sign marking Swain's historical discovery currently stands in the town square. The area was primarily a summer vacation spot for residents of metropolitan Detroit who owned cottages near lakes in the area. With the nearby additions of Interstate 94 in the late 1950s and Michigan International Speedway in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Hills
Irish Hills is an area of land located roughly in southeastern Jackson County and northwest Lenawee County in Southeast Michigan. It was named after the numerous Irish immigrants who settled there from 1830 until 1850. Today it is known throughout the state for its scenery, especially in the summer. Its hills and larger kettle lakes surround the Hayes State Park. It is also known for its chain of smaller kettle lakes bordered by US Highway 12 (US 12, Michigan Avenue). These link to Cambridge Junction Historic State Park, which is adjoined by the Michigan International Speedway. Irish Hills has a number of resorts. It had several family-oriented locations, including an old west theme park known as ''Stagecoach Stop USA'' and a mock dinosaur exhibit named ''Prehistoric Forest'', both of which subsequently closed. In 2013, however, Stagecoach Stop was reopened as a resort, and is now called Stagecoach Stop Western Resort. As of 2015, ''Mystery Hill'', a gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethlyn T
Ethlyn may refer to: * Ethlyn T. Clough (1858–1936), American newspaper publisher, editor * Ethlyn Smith (1940-2007), civil servant from the British Virgin Islands * Ethlyn Tate (born 1966), Jamaican sprinter * Ethlyn, Missouri Ethlyn is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories b ..., United States, an unincorporated community {{dab, given name Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cement City, Michigan
Cement City is a village in the U.S. state of Michigan. The village is located within Woodstock Township in Lenawee County, with a small northern portion within Columbia Township in Jackson County. The population was 438 at the 2010 census. History The location first was given a post office named Woodstock after the township on January 3, 1838 with postmaster Almer Smith. While the post office was closed on October 13, 1859 but quickly reopened On December 3. The post was open until May 5, 1871 then again from January 27, 1881 to May 21, 1887. Kelly's Corners post office, named after local early landowner Orson Kelly opened with John E. Turk as postmaster on February 17, 1868. On December 6, 1886 Kelly's Corner was renamed as Woodstock then to Cement on February 21, 1901. This after the 1900 formation of an unincorporated village under William Cohan in 1900 and named for the pending coming of a cement company. On March 5, 1901, the post office was renamed one final time to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Lake, Michigan
Columbia Township is a civil township of Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,420. Communities * Brooklyn is a village in the southeast of the township. * Cement City (primarily in Lenawee County) lies within the south-central part of the township. *Clarklake is an unincorporated community around Clark Lake in the northwest of the township served by a US Post Office with the ZIP Code of 49234. It began as a settlement in 1833.Walter Romig, ''Michigan Place Names'', p. 118 *Lake Columbia is an unincorporated community around Lake Columbia in the south central part of the township. * Vineyard Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place partially within the township. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (7.47%) is water. The township is in southeastern Jackson County and is bordered to the south by Lenawee County. U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon, Michigan
Napoleon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population of the CDP was 1,258 at the 2010 census. It is located within Napoleon Township. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and (0.76%) is water. Napoleon is in southeastern Jackson County, in the eastern part of Napoleon Township. State highway M-50 passes through the center of town, leading northwest to Jackson, the county seat, and south to Brooklyn. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,254 people, 473 households, and 340 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 498 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.89% White, 0.24% Black or African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 1.12% from other races, and 1.44% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addison, Michigan
Addison is a village in Lenawee County, Michigan, Lenawee County of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 605 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census. The village is located on the boundary between Rollin Township, Michigan, Rollin Township on the south and Woodstock Township, Michigan, Woodstock Township on the north. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which is land and is water. History In 1834, when John Talbot settled along a winding creek in the infancy of southeast Michigan's history, the area was a vast forest, dotted with clear blue lakes and occupied by the Potawatomi. With the raising of a simple grist mill along Bean Creek around December 1835, Addison's history was started, operating under the settlement name “Manetue.”The History of Addison, Michigan, a historical chronicle of the village, ©1996 Dan Cherry Having failed to secure a spot along the river that provided enough water power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onsted, Michigan
Onsted is a village within Lenawee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The village had a population of 917 at the 2010 census. Located within the Irish Hills region, the village is part of Cambridge Township. Onsted was first settled in 1883 and named after early settler John Onsted. The community incorporated as a village in 1907. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 917 people, 370 households, and 253 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 399 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 96.2% White, 0.2% African American, 1.6% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.2% from other races, and 1.3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.6% of the population. There were 370 households, of which 34.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.8% were marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manitou Beach, Michigan
Manitou (), akin to the Iroquois '' orenda'', is the spiritual and fundamental life force among Algonquian groups in the Native American theology. It is omnipresent and manifests everywhere: organisms, the environment, events, etc. ''Aashaa monetoo'' means "good spirit," while ''otshee monetoo'' means "bad spirit." When the world was created, the Great Spirit, ''Aasha Monetoo'', gave the land to the indigenous peoples, the Shawnee in particular. Overview The term ''manitou'' was already in widespread use at the time of early European contact. In 1585, when Thomas Harriot recorded the first glossary of an Algonquian language, Roanoke (Pamlico), he included the word ''mantóac'', meaning "gods" (plural). Similar terms are found in nearly all of the Algonquian languages. In some Algonquian traditions, '' Gitche Manitou'' refers to a " great spirit" or supreme being. The term has analogues dating to before European contact, and the word uses of ''gitche'' and ''manit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset, Michigan
Somerset Township is a civil township of Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,532 at the 2020 census. Communities * Bakers was a station on the Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad at . Storekeeper Don H. Elliott became its first postmaster on October 20, 1897. The office operated until December 14, 1903. *Jerome is an unincorporated community within the township at . The FIPS place code is 41740. The ZIP Code is 49249. * Lake LeAnn is an unincorporated community and census-designated place within the township at , surrounding three freshwater lakes, the largest of which is Lake LeAnn. *Somerset is an unincorporated community within the township on U.S. Highway 12 at . The FIPS place code is 74540. The ZIP Code is 49281. *Somerset Center is an unincorporated community within the township on US 12 at . The FIPS place code. The ZIP Code is 49282. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester, Michigan
Manchester is a village in Manchester Township within Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,037 at the 2020 census. History Chicago Road In 1824 the United States Congress passed the General Survey Act, intended to create and maintain military roads through what was then the west of the country. One third of the funds allocated went to build a road between the strategic army posts of Detroit and Fort Dearborn, at the little town of Chicago. Known as the Chicago Road, it followed the old Sauk Trail and opened the entire area for settlement. Also in 1824, the land around today's Manchester was surveyed by John Mack, who noted it as being "a good mill seat." John Gilbert, who had recently completed work on sections of the Erie Canal, agreed with John Mack, and on May 10, 1826 he purchased of land along the Raisin River at that location. Early village history Originally from upstate New York, John Gilbert resettled to Ypsilanti, Michigan, in 1831. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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