{"id":8,"date":"2018-11-26T12:46:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellaireareahistoricalsociety.com\/index.php\/services\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:48:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:48:32","slug":"services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bellaireareahistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/services\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Before the French and British came here in the 1600s and 1700s, Michigan was home to several tribes. Michigan’s three largest tribes are the Ojibwe (also called Chippewa), the Odawa (also called Ottowa) and the Potawatomi (also called the Bode’wadmi)<\/b>. They share common language, customs and beliefs.<\/p>

“Fisherman’s Paradise” was the first resort in the area. \u00a0Built by H.D. Smith, he brought resorters from all over the Midwest. Fisherman’s Paradise hired two Native Americans from Elk Rapids to make canoes all summer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Early Bellaire Success<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Robert Richardi and Frederick Bechtold, originally of Germany and Belgium, \u00a0invented the celebrated Richardi wooden scoop, and machinery for manufacturing wooden trays. In the spring of 1881 they moved to Bellaire, Antrim County, Michigan, where they bought lands and built a dam over Intermediate River, and erected a factory for the manufacture of wooden ware. \u00a0It was a highly successful business but the reality and threat of fire eventually led the partners to dissolve the business.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The village blacksmith was a very important member of the community. There was a time when horses were the<\/strong>\u00a0means of transportation in Bellaire. They were used for riding and for pulling everything: wagons, sleighs, plows, logging sleds, rollers and stagecoaches. Whatever needed to be moved on land was most likely moved by horsepower. Every one of those horses had custom-made shoes.
If the shoes being made were for humans, the job title was cobbler. A local blacksmith\/cobbler\/inventor helped to explore Antartica. Come on in and find out more …<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Max Ellison<\/b> (1914-1985) was an American poet who was born in Bellaire<\/a>, Michigan.<\/sup><\/sup><\/sup> Ellison attended Bellaire High School for two years. During the Second World War, he served in the US Army’s 1st Cavalry Division<\/a> in the Philippines and was awarded the Purple Heart<\/a>. After the war he became a hog farmer in Plymouth<\/a>, Michigan. In 1967, he left farming and returned to Bellaire to write poetry. \u00a0<\/p>

Bellaire artist <\/span>Charles B. Culver<\/strong>\u00a0(1908-1967) \u00a0He loved jazz music, and for a short time in the late 20s and early 30s went on the road as a musician to earn extra money, playing tenor sax and clarinet. In addition to music, Culver had worked as a cartoonist for the Royal Oak Tribune in the 1920s. Culver\u2019s love of music, his work on children\u2019s books and cartoons were only hobbies, and to make money he worked several years at the Chevrolet Studios in the General Motors Building in Detroit as a commercial artist.<\/span><\/p>

There’s so much more …<\/p>