The Eagle Brewery was the oldest brewery in Saginaw started in 1854 by German immigrant John Wolfgang Rosa. The Brewery started in the family homestead and eventually grew into a full brewery with a bottling works. His son John T Rosa started working in the brewery at age 14 and after traveling to Detroit and
I It sure was a beautiful weekend. It’s like winning the lottery, getting into the 50’s on a weekend in February in Michigan. I have this strange feeling that Mother Nature is not going to give it to us for free, and is gonna send us some nasty weather eventually, but I sure enjoyed it
In 1875 Lewis Cass Slade ( named after Michigan Pioneer Lewis Cass) got his start in the lumber business working on the docks of Jesse Hoyt’s Lumber Mill, eventually he worked his way up until he became one of the company’s leading men. In 1884 he partnered with Charles J Stevens the firm being known
Someone asked me the other day if I had a pic of the old stone school, and this is the pic I found. here is the description of the school written by James Cookes Mills “The Stone School, named after Farnum C. Stone who served the Union School District as treasurer for main- years, is
I was going thru some of my old pics, and I found this one I took several years ago of the pond at Harvey Randall Wickes park on McCarty, or is it Hospital Road. I think this park is one of the most popular in Saginaw County, but I always find it funny that it
Someone says “beans” and you think of a rabbit. you gotta get to Intermission Deli before they run out of bread. You go to Jack’s and you cant decide between Spatz and Napolitano bread so you buy one of each. You still think Jefferson is a one way street. You have been to a Gears
The house was built by Timothy B. Corning in 1872 at a cost of $25,000. Born in Wilmington Vt. he moved to Detroit when he was 19 years old. When Salt operations started in the Saginaw Valley he and his wife Ann moved to East Saginaw, T.B. Corning was one of the founders of the
There is beauty in everything if you are willing to look for it. this may look like a photo from northern Michigan but actually it’s the universal drain that runs thru Saginaw Twp., Carrollton and Zilwaukee. Yes that’s right, its a drainage ditch but with the freshly fallen snow last week, it sure is beautiful.
Probably the most famous house in Saginaw is the ” Cat Lady’s House” on Washington Ave near the tracks on the corner of Hoyt and Washington. The most memorable feature was the lion heads on the front porch. They were given to her when the old Saginaw Daily News building on the corner of Washington
the house at 129 South Granger in Saginaw’s historic Heritage Square Neighborhood was built by Clarence H. Brand Vice president of Brand and Hardin Milling Co. flour mill in Saginaw. a group of women from the Saginaw branch of the American Association of University Women came together in 1932 to read plays. The earliest productions
