ANNOUNCING: Adrian, The City That Worked: A History of Adrian, Michigan, 1825 - 2000 
This new history of Adrian, Michigan, by award-winning Dr. Charles Lindquist, Curator of the Lenawee County Historical Museum, covers
the entire history of Adrian from its beginnings in the 1820s to the year 2000. The book discusses the city’s major industries including the manufacture of railroad cars, wire fence, autos and auto parts, furniture of different sorts, items made of light metals, chemical products and more. The book also goes into the growth and changes in the city’s several business districts including the stories of a number of individual businesses. Adrian’s involvement in the nation’s wars from the Civil War through the Vietnamese War is also discussed. Combine the above with a discussion of the city’s schools, churches, residential areas and many historic homes, and then add in the stories of the town’s three colleges, city and county government, the county fair, opera house and the hospital, and you can see that this is a history that touches on much that has made Adrian an attractive place to live and to work in. The book also deals with interesting groups and individuals such as the Adrian Dominicans, the KKK, the two Michigan governors from Adrian, that rascal mayor, Tom Navin, and his brother, Frank, who owned the Detroit Tigers for so long, several notable figures and groups in athletics and still more. “Dr. Charles Lindquist has written the most comprehensive accounting of the history of Adrian that I have ever seen. I enjoyed reading the book very much and the knowledge that I gained from the detailed documentation was excellent.” Mayor Sam Rye This is a softbound book, of over 380 pages, indexed and with over 160 illustrations. To order please go to The Book Store, http://boundarypostbooks.com |
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