Sway people to have an antislavery stance. And in order to do so, they felt they should have a newspaper because they could disseminate information which would convince them that slavery was a wrong and evil and it was actually hurting the country. Out of that meeting. And, remember, this is a year before michigan is actually a state. Out of that meeting came publication of a newspaper. And it was mostly led by two men. Theodore foster who came from new england. His father was a u. S. Senator. And reverend guy beckley who came from vermont. They managed to keep it going from 1841 through 1848 and thats really amazing when you look at the history of newspapers in this country. In 1842, we still have a newspaper being published by the executive committee of the Antislavery Society, and sullivan, who was the printer out of jackson county, michigan is still the printer. Thats going to change and beckly and foster are going to take over within a short time of managing the newspaper. This ne
Of business in 1957. Whats unique about it is the dealership has the feel and the look of a 1930s, 1940s car dealership. And it has that feel because it is absolutely original. After world war ii ended, didnt need bombers anymore and there was a giant factory, the biggest one under one roof in the world. And two industrialists got together and decided to manufacture cars. There was a pentup demand for consumer goods after world war ii. They went together and created a Company Called kaiser fraser, using their last names. And Kaiser Frazer manufactured cars at the old bomber plant until 1953 when in 1953, they were sales had declined and they were consolidated into toledo, ohio. And in that factory then, General Motors took it over and needed the factory after losing their hydromatic plant from a fire outside of detroit. They moved here to ypsilanti to manufacture transmissions and then took half the factory and used it as an assembly plant. A General Motors story here. We have a Kaiser