Sometimes a house is more than a home, like these historic houses in Saginaw county, they have their own facebook page. some pages are more active than others but here is a list of houses with pages. Wolfarth House Built in 1893 by Frank J. Wolfarth, he owned and operated the largest steam bakery north
I found this sketch of Old Town or as it was know back then, Saginaw City. It’s looking west down Court Street from Hamilton, you can see the Church Steeples of Holy Cross Lutheran and First Presbyterian in the background. In the foreground on the left, I think is the Fordney Hotel. I like the old
Spaulding Township was organized in 1858. Thirteen years later, Peter and Orissa Hess deeded this site to the first school district of the township for the sum of ten dollars. Local farmers erected the first school in 1875. That structure was replaced in 1915. Ten years later, fire destroyed the second building. However, in less
When the first school in the city was built in 1836 a space was provided for a pulic library with dontated books. The library moved several times over the years, including the old Arthur Hill High School, and John Moore School. The West side library finally found a permanent home when In 1913,
I figure I would post something a little different, I post Saginaw history articles that I research, but instead I thought I would post one of my grandfather’s stories, My wife had an assignment for her college history class to go out and talk to someone who lived thru the great depression, so we went
I found this aerial photo of Downtown Saginaw taken in 1965, in the Saginaw Public Library archives. It’s fascinating to zoom in on it and look at it. (click on the image to see the full size) It was taken before I675 was built, and you can see the old Masonic Lodge where the civic center is
I found this old hand drawn map from 1885 in the creative commons of Wikipedia, it’s fascinating to zoom in and look at it, I really love how you can see the old Potter Street Station and the old courthouse. Click on the map to get a full size view of it and have a look
In case you missed it, I am having a Giveaway on my Pure Saginaw Facebook page, you can win a Pure Saginaw wall calendar and some stickers. I f your on facebook you can enter in the giveaway here. https://www.facebook.com/Pure-Saginaw-269398939777913/ I have a few wall calendars left, if you want one you can get them
Julius W. Ippel was born August 30th 1861 in West Bend Wisconsin to German Immigrants George and Agnes Ippel. Julius moved to Saginaw with his parents when he was young, and grew up and attended school in Saginaw. He eventually became the manager for J Bauman, a west side Saginaw merchant and continued to work
In 1822 Normam Little first came to the “Saginaws” with is father who had purchased land her but after seeing the swamps and being bitten by all the mosquitoes he quickly sold his land and told Norman “there is no future here”. Norman Little still believed in Saginaw and in 1836, Norman Little came
