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The Gilmore at 50
and
Biking the Territorial Road

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The Gilmore at 50

Monday, April 18,
6:30 pm
Antwerp Sunshine Branch Library
24823 Front Avenue, Mattawan

Historian Jay Follis offers an in-depth look at the Gilmore Car Museum’s fifty year history. The award-winning writer traces the origins of the Gilmore collection from a couple of old cars in 1963 to 57 vehicles in just three years.
The museum that now boasts over 300 vintage automobiles and motorcycles, opened to the public on
Sunday, July 31, 1966.
(Donals S. and Genevieve Gilmore in their 1908 Stanley Steamer)

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Biking the Territorial Trail: 
Detroit to the Lake Michigan Shoreline
with Chuck Jager

Thursday, April 28
6:00 pm
Webster Memorial Library, Decatur

Join Chuck Jager for a cycling adventure along Michigan’s historic Territorial Road. From his starting point on Detroit’s Michigan Avenue, Jager headed west staying on as much of the original route between Detroit and Chicago as possible.

“One of the three great east-west routes in pioneers days, the Territorial Road from Detroit to St. Joe tapped the rich lands of the second “tier” of counties. Approved in 1829, the road was not surveyed through Van Buren County until 1835. Although at first it was only a “blaze and a name,” the route was soon teeming with emigrants and travelers. The Dodge Tavern in Paw Paw a famed stopping, point was so crowded at times that some weary persons, old timers said, ‘offered a dollar for a post to lean on.'”
(from: www.michmarkers.com)

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VBDL programs are free
and open to the public!

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