To all Bridgeport and Spaulding Businesses....
The Historical Society is now putting together its new 2010/11 Service and Business Directory.
It come out every April. Please check for errors in your listing in the earlier directory and contact Diane McCartney at 777-2301 or the William Schomaker Museum at 777-5230 between the hours of 1-5 pm Tuesday thru Saturday. This is to list your business for our free listing part of the directory.
We also use ads from local businesses to defray the cost of the directories, as we are a non-profit organization. We give the books out to 2500 residents and visitors to Bridgeport. The directory is also on the Bridgeport Township web site and others including ours. This book is out in the township for one year and is used by many residences for local shopping.
Our AD prices have not gone up for many years. The cost is $200 for a back cover and front and back inside cover in color. It will cost $150 for a full page inside, $100 for a half page, $75 for a quarter page and $50 for an eighth page. The pages are 8x10 and an 1/8 page is a business card size.
This year as last year if you place an AD in the directory you will receive a one year membership to the Historical Society, with a value of $25. We hope you will consider taking out an AD to help residents of your community find YOUR business and shop locally.
You can obtain an AD by calling the above numbers or sending a check and copy of your AD or the AD you want to the Historical Society of Bridgeport, P.O. Box 561, Bridgeport, MI 48722
THERE IS A DEADLINE OF FEBRUARY 20th. This makes it possible to have the directory out by April 1st. Thank you.
Veterans Memorial dedication
We have plans to DEDICATE our Veterans Memorial Monument on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at noon. The main speaker will be a local man who is now State, Major General TAG officer of the National Guards of Michigan, Thomas Cutler. We hope to have many Political figures and local offficals as well. We will have speeches, music,refreshments and a program that will honor the Veterans past and present of Bridgeport. The NCOA of Bridgeport will help set up the program. Please plan on attending to show the pride we have in our Veterans and all veterans.
It will need many local people to pull this off and we hope you will be willing to help. Please voluteer to help by calling the museum at 777-5230 or Diane McCartney at 777-2301. Museum hours are 1-5 Tuesday thru Saturday.
If you are a veteran and lived or are living in Bridgeport please let us know so we can included you in a notebook we are putting together to keep in the museum for future references. A project is best done with help from as many local people as can be found. We could use help in completing this project as well as others. Please join us in keeping history of Bridgeport alive.
It will need many local people to pull this off and we hope you will be willing to help. Please voluteer to help by calling the museum at 777-5230 or Diane McCartney at 777-2301. Museum hours are 1-5 Tuesday thru Saturday.
If you are a veteran and lived or are living in Bridgeport please let us know so we can included you in a notebook we are putting together to keep in the museum for future references. A project is best done with help from as many local people as can be found. We could use help in completing this project as well as others. Please join us in keeping history of Bridgeport alive.
PIONEER CHRISTMAS Friday Dec. 11, 2009
Pioneer Christmas at 6190 Dixie Hwy. It was a very successful evening. Many attended and seemed to enjoy themselves. We had hand made crafts in the Hanney House, wood carver Kathy and Jim Silva, ornament painter John Martinez, free popcorn and old fashion cartoons in the museum and entertainers in the Old Town Hall. Bob and Donnan, the Pencostal group, and Eva Stone. The school house had crafts kids made and the boy scouts, girl scouts and Honor Society sold food and drinks. The artifacts that we have of on earlier Bridgeport were intesting to see. Toys, games and many others. We had a live manger scene near the old school house with the Tom Harris family from Faith Lutheran Church. Santa gave out candy at the fire hall and all went very well. Hope more will join us next year on the 2nd friday of December 2010.
2009 Veterans Memorial is built in Historical Village
The Historical Society with the help of some grants has built a Memorial to the Veterans of Bridgeport. If a relative of yours died in a U.S. war and was a resident in Bridgeport at the time of his death, in that war, we would like to know about him. We would like to put his or her name on a plaque that will be place on the monument. We know some of the names already but need to check out more names.
The wars that would have men from Bridgeport would be: The Civil War, Spanish American War, WW I, WW II, Korea, Vietnam. Also Bay of Pigs, Grenada, Panama, Persian Gulf, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Afghanistan and Invasion of Iraq.
We hope to have the names complete by January 15, so please contact the Historical Society @989-777-5230 or Diane McCartney @989-777-2301. You could write to Historical Society of Bridgeport at P.O. Box 561, Bridgeport, Michigan 48722.
Help us not to forget anyone.
The names we have for the plaque so far are as follows:
CIVIL WAR William Andrews; Alonzo Becker, John Baker; Gerardius Becker; John Livingston; Alonzo Macomber; Peter McGinnus; Lewis Ricker; Hiram Whitehead; Edwin Worden
WW II Wallace C. Schulz; Stuart Beardslee; Donald Aldrich; Maurine Vicor Castagnier; Charles E. Kennedy; Norman K. clutier; Walter L. Leonard; Robert Taylor; Joseph Moskal, Jr.; and William R. Hawley
KOREAN Zane Morley vasold
VIETNAM Michael G. McManus and Miles D. Cooper
The wars that would have men from Bridgeport would be: The Civil War, Spanish American War, WW I, WW II, Korea, Vietnam. Also Bay of Pigs, Grenada, Panama, Persian Gulf, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Afghanistan and Invasion of Iraq.
We hope to have the names complete by January 15, so please contact the Historical Society @989-777-5230 or Diane McCartney @989-777-2301. You could write to Historical Society of Bridgeport at P.O. Box 561, Bridgeport, Michigan 48722.
Help us not to forget anyone.
The names we have for the plaque so far are as follows:
CIVIL WAR William Andrews; Alonzo Becker, John Baker; Gerardius Becker; John Livingston; Alonzo Macomber; Peter McGinnus; Lewis Ricker; Hiram Whitehead; Edwin Worden
WW II Wallace C. Schulz; Stuart Beardslee; Donald Aldrich; Maurine Vicor Castagnier; Charles E. Kennedy; Norman K. clutier; Walter L. Leonard; Robert Taylor; Joseph Moskal, Jr.; and William R. Hawley
KOREAN Zane Morley vasold
VIETNAM Michael G. McManus and Miles D. Cooper
Dose anyone know of anymore men or women who died in our wars? The dead line for new names will be January 15h of 2010.
Farmers Market in Bridgeport for 2010
Would you like to see a farmer's market in Bridgeport?
If enough people are interested and will help set it up we can have one.
Call the museum @ 777-5230 or Diane @ 777-2301.
We would require at least 4 or 5 gardeners or farmers to be there each week. Maybe thursday from 1-5 in the parking lot of the Historical Village. People would have to depend on it having produce each week. If no one shows an interest it will be dropped.
If enough people are interested and will help set it up we can have one.
Call the museum @ 777-5230 or Diane @ 777-2301.
We would require at least 4 or 5 gardeners or farmers to be there each week. Maybe thursday from 1-5 in the parking lot of the Historical Village. People would have to depend on it having produce each week. If no one shows an interest it will be dropped.
Bridgeport Business Directory 2010/2011
THE 2010/2011 Business directory is being planned. It is for businesses in bridgeport only. If you want to be in the new director coming out in April please check with the Historical Society or call Diane McCartney at 777-2301. I will be sending out letters to businesses in Jan. with a deadline to answer by Feburary 20th if you need changes to your listing or want an AD this year. The cost will be the same as last year. $200 for back cover, inside back cover or inside of front cover, $150 for full page, $100 for 1/2 a page, $75 for 1/4 page and $50 for 1/8 or business card size ad. This cost encludes a listing and page of ad if any, the ad and the book is on the internet in the Township page, our page and on other Bridgeport sites. If as a business you only want a listing that is alright too. But if it is in error in our last book please let us know so we can correct it in this issue. Again our deadline is Feb. 20th and we hope to hear from you soon.
Bridgeport Days Parade, was June 20, 2009
The annual Bridgeport Days festival occured this year on the days of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 19, 20 and 21, 2009. There was a range of events including a parade on Saturday at 10am. The Historical Village had a flea market on Saturday with a movie at dusk. A breakfast at the fire hall and a car show on Lyle Park.It was a great time had by many.
