Caro’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Caro. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Caro was founded on the ridge just above the site of the Chippewa Village that early on stood at the Oxbow in the Cass River that was known by Native Americans as "Pe-See-Kop-To-Qua-Yone." It is now the site of the Caro Dam in Section 10, Indianfields Township, Tuscola County. Caro would be built and organized on Section 3. On Section 10, at the gate of the Chippewa Village, the logging camp that started the "boom" in logging Cass River was established by Curtis Emerson in 1848. Paschel Richardson of Tuscola Village purchased land for logging on the future site of Caro or Section 3, Indianfields Township, also in 1848. The Johnson brothers, Daniel and Soloman, began to build the City of Zilwaukee, Michigan, from Cass River Pine timber that they logged from the land at the future site of Caro and that they bought in 1849. This was how the events would align.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Caro’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Caro’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewWilliam J Moore House 1926, 1926: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Caro
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Caro, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as William J Moore House 1926 (1926) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
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From Wikimedia Commons (6) and the National Register (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.