Macomb Then

(from Fall, 2024 Macomb Now Magazine)
The idea of Lakeside Mall was formed when real estate developers Al Taubman and Graham Orley spoke at one of their son’s college football games.

(from Fall, 2023 Macomb Now Magazine)
There is a prevalent notion, albeit an unrealistic myth, that somehow we must strive to be everything for everyone.

(from Summer, 2023 Macomb Now Magazine)
When Eleanor and Edsel Ford were considering their future home at Gaukler Pointe…

(from Fall, 2022 Macomb Now Magazine)
This is the story of a bear, a bar and some Macomb County leaders.

(from Spring, 2022 Macomb Now Magazine)
New Haven Community Schools celebrates 100 years.

(from Fall, 2021 Macomb Now Magazine)
The school in Washington Township came into being as early as 1824 when a log schoolhouse was built.

(from Spring, 2021 Macomb Now Magazine)
At the turn of the century it was common to see people gathered outside in Mount Clemens once the warm days of spring arrived.

(from Summer, 2020 Macomb Now Magazine)
The Sigma Gamma Association began in the early 1900s with local young women meeting for social activities, which later led to organized charitable activities for children and raising money for local hospitals.

(from Spring, 2020 Macomb Now Magazine)
Although Mount Clemens was known as the Bath City, it was also renowned for roses.

(from Fall, 2017 Macomb Now Magazine)

Midmorning on Sept. 11, 1957, acrid black smoke rose above St. Peter Catholic Church, located in the second block of Market Street, just west of Gratiot Avenue in downtown Mount Clemens.

(from Spring, 2019 Macomb Now Magazine)
Imperial Japan had invaded China in 1937 and threatened to overrun all of Asia and the Pacific.

(from Summer, 2018 Macomb Now Magazine)
Michigan’s governor between 1921 and 1927, had a vision that he believed would revolutionize automobile travel.

(from Spring 2015 issue of Macomb Now Magazine)
A modern medical miracle turns 60.

(from Winter, 2013 Macomb Now Magazine)
Merry Christmas and holiday best wishes to everyone.

(from Winter, 2015 Macomb Now Magazine)
The hardy residents of Macomb get out their sleds or ice augurs, strap on their snowshoes or skis, lace up their boots, or shine up and sharpen their skates.

(from Summer, 2014 Macomb Now Magazine)
Pioneer aviator Charles A. Lindbergh was born Feb. 4, 1902 in Detroit and raised on a Minnesota farm.

(from Winter, 2025 Macomb Now Magazine)
Government has changed over the years and each change has affected each and every one of us.

(from Spring, 2024 Macomb Now Magazine)
The large windows on all eight sides of the 1860 Octagon House are open to the warm spring breeze, filling the rooms with air and the twilight of evening.

(from Spring, 2023 Macomb Now Magazine)
The large windows on all eight sides of the 1860 Octagon House are open to the warm spring breeze, filling the rooms with air and the twilight of evening.

(from Winter, 2022 Macomb Now Magazine)
As government land began opening up in the Michigan Territory, the opportunities offered attracted many settlers to the new territory.

(from Summer, 2021 Macomb Now Magazine)
This is an experience fondly remembered by many families in the Roseville area between the late 1940s and the early 1980s.

(from Fall, 2020 Macomb Now Magazine)
September arrives with mornings a little cooler and air a little crisper, all signs that it is back to school time, a time when students look forward to learning new things, meeting a new teacher and making new friends.

(from Fall, 2019 Macomb Now Magazine)
This is a country hardware store. Nothing is fancy but everything is useful and practical…

(from Winter, 2019 Macomb Now Magazine)
It is hard to conceive, but Michigan’s great forests yielded more money and more fortunes than did all the gold mining in California.

(from Fall, 2018 Macomb Now Magazine)
By the 1840s, Log cabins were giving way to more comfortable frame homes.

(from Winter, 2018 Macomb Now Magazine)
Ice grips the Clinton River in this photo view from the old iron bridge at Market Street in downtown Mount Clemens in 1951.

(from Summer, 2017 Macomb Now Magazine)
In the early 1900s, my grandparents regularly took the Interurban, which was in fact more of a streetcar than a railroad.

(from Summer 2016 issue of Macomb Now Magazine)
The summers of my youth were slow and lazy, seemingly never ending.

(from the Fall 2016 issue of Macomb Now Magazine)
In the middle of a bustling suburb there is an unexpected slice of heaven.

(from Fall, 2014 Macomb Now Magazine)
Fall has arrived with its soft golden light. Trees are beginning to turn color, laughter is heard from the school yard at recess, and the school bell rings.

(from the Summer 2013 Edition of Macomb Now Magazine)
Men of Macomb County served in the 7^th and 24 the Infantry and the Michigan Cavalry.

(from Winter, 2013 Macomb Now Magazine)
Merry Christmas and holiday best wishes to everyone.