Coleman’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Coleman. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Coleman began with the building of a sawmill in 1870. The following year a station of the Pere Marquette Railroad was opened. It was incorporated as a village in 1887 and as a city in 1905.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Coleman’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Coleman’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewColeman MI, 1910: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Coleman, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Coleman is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Coleman has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Clare Downtown Historic District in Clare, 10 miles away.
Coleman and the nearest listed places
Closest to Coleman
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Coleman MI (1910) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15From Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.