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Traverse
City
1884 Directory
Village History
Big Rapids, Michigan 1884 Directory
Residents and Businesses
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Village History
*not transcribed Traverse City, the county seat of Grand Traverse county, famous
sporting centre and noted summer resort, was first settled in 1851, and
incorporated as a village in 1881. It is situated at the head of the
west arm of Grand Traverse Bay, at the mouth of Boardman River in the
northern part of the county. It is the terminus of the Traverse City
branch of the G. R. & I. Railroad, 146 miles from Grand Rapids. During
the season of navigation boats connect daily with Elk Rapids, Old
Mission, Northport, Charlevoix and Petoskey. The village is located in
one of the finest agricultural and fruit growing regions in the State,
and makes extensive shipments of flour, fruit, lumber, wheat and
potatoes. It contains 6 churches, a high school with 6 primary schools
and a Catholic school, one bank, 6 hotels, a ladies' library with over
1,000 volumes, 4 lumber mills, one of them which has a capacity of
30,000,000 feet annually, extensive foundry and machine shops, a wagon
and carriage hub factory, a large flouring mill and a shingle mill
turning out 100,000 daily. Sash, doors, blinds, cigar box, lumber,
cabinet ware, woodenware, brooms, woolens veneers, leather, brick,
castings and wagons are also manufactured.
The Northern Asylum for the insane is located here, and is well under way. It
will cost $400,000. A new jail and sheriff's residence has been built at a cost
of $19,000.
The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co's block, lately completed, is of
brick 220 feet long by 114 feet wide, 3 stories and basement, all
occupied by themselves, and erected at a cost of $100,000. The
village has the Walker System of water works.
Two weekly newspapers, the Grand Traverse Herald and the
Traverse Bay Eagle are published here. Traverse City is quite an
important station of the G. R. & I. Railroad, the amount of business at
this point reaching as high as $7,500 per month. Exp., Am. and
U. S. Telephone, W. U. Mail Daily. Population 3,000.
VILLAGE OFFICERS
Annual election second Monday in
March
President--Perry Hannah
Clerk--Harry C. Davis
Treasure--M. E. Haskell
Marshall--Levi Soules
Assessor--H. D. Campbell
Trustees--Smith Barnes, James Lee, Joseph
E. Greilick, H. P. Daw, D. C. Leach, C. Moffatt
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Marshall--Levi Soules
Policemen--William Iles, John Iles
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Chief--S. Charles Despres
Invinceble Hose Co. No. 1 - I. G. Winnie, foreman
B. J. Morgan, assistant foreman
Wide Awake Hose Co. No. 2 - J. W. Milliken, foreman
M. E. Haskell, assistant foreman
SCHOOL OFFICERS
Moderator--Perry Hannah
Director--Charles J. Kneeland
Treasurer--Emanuel P. Wilhelm
Teachers--S. G. Burkhead, A. M. Superintendent
and Principal of the High School
Miss Emma Rice, Assisant, High School
Mrs. S. G. Burkhead, 9th and 10th Grades
Miss Celeste Roben, 8th Grade
Miss Alice Olds, 7th Grade
Miss Cora Ladd, 5th and 6th Grades
Miss Jessie Cameron, 3rd and 4th Grades
Union School:
Miss Fannie Holdsworth, 1st and 2nd Grades
Miss Emma Waterloo, 3rd and 4th Grades 10th St.
East Primary:
Miss Emma Leach, 1st Grade
Miss Hattie Leach, 2nd Grade
Miss Anice Reynolds, 3rd and 4th Grades
West Primary
Miss Ella Pegg, 1st and 2nd Grades
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SECRET AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES
Traverse City Lodge, No. 222 -- Regular meetings every
Monday on or before full moon at Masonic Hall, over Hamilton &
Milliken's store. John Broadfoot, W. M.; A. McManus, S. W.; Herbert
Montague, J. W.; J. W. Lawrence, S. D.; Charles Lambert, J. D.; H.
P. Daw, Scribe; J. D. Billings, P. S.; T. T. Bates, Treas.; H. D.
Campbell, Sec.; Arthur Despres, Tyler.
Traverse City Chapter, No. 30 -- Regular convocations
held at Masonic Hall on first Friday of each month. S. C. Moffatt,
H. P.; J. T. Beadle, K.; H. P. Daw, Sribe; J. D. Billings, P. S.; T. T.
Bates, Treas.; H. D. Campbell, Sec.; Arthur Despres, Tyler.
@Grand Traverse Region
Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore
8Sept2005
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