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The fall, 2012 edition of “Culver History Quarterly,” the quarterly newsletter of the Antiquarian and Historical Society of Culver, is available in the Oct. 4, 2012 edition of The Culver Citizen, and also available Launch PDF file.
. Take a look for the latest AHS news, a look at historic family farming in the Culver area, the President’s report, and more!
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A fun time was had by all on Saturday, September 15th when the Antiquarians visited Child’s Farm just north of Culver. There was laughter and friendly competition between the men and women as butter was churned by both parties to see who could make the best looking butter. The discussions still continues on that subject but all agreed that the meal was delicious. A table setting of blue willow and assorted pottery was beautifully displayed on the outdoor picnic tables surrounded by the newly planted orchard. Homemade egg noodles were made for the beef cooking in an old fashion pot over the open fire. The beef and noodles were served with maple glazed carrots, dill green beans, and cornbread with the freshly churned butter. Sweets rounded out the meal consisting of rose cup cake and hard gingerbread. To complete our experience of 1850’s life on the farm, a weaving demonstration was given by Sue Child along with wool carding and spinning of of the wool. To make the perfect fall day complete, a hayride was enjoyed by all.
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Prior to the 1991 demotion of the Culver Inn, on the campus of Culver Academies, members of the Culver fire department were given permission to utilize the delapidated building for training purposes, as pictured in these photos.
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On Dec. 28, 1985, the Maxinkuckee Village lost one of the last vestiges of its formerly active business community, the Manor Market at the northeast corner of East Shore Drive and 18B Road, to fire.
The market, known in the 1930s as Van’s, changed its name to R & J circa 1947. Apartments were also added, of the same name. In 1964, the store became Manor Market. Firemen were unable to save either structure, at 1355 East Shore Drive, in the wintertime fire in 1985, and the location remains a vacant lot today.
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At least as far back as the 1950s — if not earlier — Santa Claus helped kick off the Christmas season each December by arriving in town on a Culver fire truck, often greeting children at the annual children’s Christmas party at the station afterwards.
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Images from the mid-1990s to the 2000s of the Culver fire station at 504 E. Lake Shore Drive. The station building, earlier an International Harvester sales building, replaced the fire station at Plymouth and Cass Streets starting in 1965.
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Culver Military Academy’s Trunk Room began its life as theTabernacle for the chautauqua hotel Henry Harrison Culver built at the site of today’s Main Barracks, for the 1889 chautauqua season (famous evangelist T. Dewitt Talmage spoke there). It became the Culver Military Academy gymnasium when the school was started in 1894, and the school’s dining hall when the brick gymnasium was built in 1907. When the current dining hall began its life in 1911, the former Tabernacle was moved and became a trunk room, housing cadet luggage and belongings.
In January, 1918, a stovepipe fire started the conflagration, which consumed the building in just 30 minutes.
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Then known as the Gignilliat cottage — for Culver Military Acaemy superintendent L.R. Gignilliat — and later as the Superintendent’s Home, all but the first floor of this late 19th century structure burned in a March 25, 1918 fire, though there was time to save most of the furniture and belongings from the flames. The building was razed in 1989 to make room for the Huffington Library of today, on the Culver Academies campus.
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ABOVE: In 1941, the garage and tenant residence at the Marmon cottage, at 1100 East Shore Drive on Lake Maxinkuckee, burned to the ground. The structure likely dated to the 1880s, when Daniel and Elizabeth Marmon arrived here and established the cottage, today occupied by the Greenleaf descendants of the Marmons. Pictured is Don Mikesell of the Culver fire dept.
ABOVE: Undated photo of Culver firemen at the Vonnegut barn fire on the east shore of the lake.
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