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- Date Created:
- [1870 TO 1996]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- This collection was created by Hazel D. Wilcox. She was born in St. Johns, Michigan on May 12, 1986 and died on March 27, 1980 in Meridian in Ingham County, Michigan. Hazel was the only child of Carl C. and Marion D. Wilcox. Carl C. Wilcox was an employee of the J.W. Knapp Company. She never married and attended Lansing Business University. Hazel worked at Hayes Motor truck Wheel Company in St. Johns in 1918 and applied for a position with Prudden Wheel Company. She eventually worked for Motor Wheel. The collection also includes correspodence between Hazel and R. V. Gay who spent time overseas with American Students Reconstruction Unite. Hazel resided at 752 N. Logan Street in the 1940s and 50s as recorded in several diaries from the collection.
- Date Created:
- [1918 TO 1950]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Hazel D. Wilcox Collection
- Description:
- This collection contains photographs related to the interurban rail line between Lansing and St. Johns that was contracted April 23, 1900, and had its last run May 18, 1929. It began as the Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Railway company and changed hands (and names) several times before ending service. The photographs were collected by Michael Reed for a display at a youth talent show. Most of the photographs are prints made from glass negatives that were taken by Emery Hamilton, who worked on the line. They are not dated and some of the location information may not be accurate.
- Date Created:
- [1900 TO 1929]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Reed Interurban Collection
- Description:
- Located seven miles north of Lansing, US 27, ten miles south of St. Johns. Turn west at blinker in East Dewitt.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Located seven miles north of Lansing, US 27, ten miles south of St. Johns. Turn west at blinker in East Dewitt.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- The County Farm sub-station looking south with a shelter in the background. This station was struck by lightning and burned. It was replaced by the Merle Beach substation.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Reed Interurban Collection
- Description:
- Interurban passenger car no. 208, connected to a freight car full of beets. Pere Marquette Railroad cars were used to haul the beets from St. Johns to the Lansing sugar beet factory. Cars were interchanged to the Pere Marquette at North Lansing.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Reed Interurban Collection
- Description:
- Located seven miles north of Lansing, US 27, ten miles south of St. Johns. Turn west at blinker in East Dewitt.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
