The City of Rochester is a beautiful place to live just 24 miles north of Detroit, MI. According to Wikipedia the Graham family, built a log cabin in 1817. Making it one of the oldest communities in the area. The cabin was located where the Quik Pik and Penn Station stores today exist at the intersection of Main and Second Street. The city was named for Rochester, New York, just like Rochester, Minnesota, as many early settlers to the area were formerly from the state of New York. The city … [Read more...]
Digging Up Bones in Downtown Rochester!
May 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Word on the street today was that the construction crews tearing up Main Street in Downtown Rochester found some bones. While digging in front of Gus O'Connors Pub they uncovered an old well and near it some animal bones. We were told that MDOT called in some Archaeologists to investigate and examine the find. Reports came back that these bones were not prehistoric, but probably a small animal like a dog or a sheep. The history that is uncovered is being seen for the first time in decades, so … [Read more...]
Arbor Drugs Stores
July 24, 2010 by
Arbor Drugs opened its doors in Troy, Michigan in 1974, when founder Eugene Applebaum combined several drug stores under the name. At the time, he owned a handful of pharmacies, including one in Ann Arbor. Because the Ann Arbor store was the best of the bunch, he decided to use the second half of the city’s name for his business. … [Read more...]
