Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 18, 1973
Caption:
From Our Pictorial Archives: Ann Arbor 1938: Not a battered, fire-blackened medieval castle, but the remains of the old Chelsea Cement Plant on the Dexter-Chelsea Rd. where it is crossed by the Penn Central Railroad tracks. This picture was taken in 1938, about 10 years after the plant near Four Mile Lake was abandoned by the state, which had operated it for some years with prison labor - convicts from Jackson. The McKune Memorial Library in Chelsea filled some gaps in our recollections. The White Portland Cement Co. acquired the land and built the plant in 1904, using manufacturing material from the area. A Jackson bank foreclosed a mortgage on the property in 1909, and Nathan Potter, Jackson and Ann Arbor capitalist, reorganized the company in 1911. The state leased the plant from Potter in 1923. The pile of rubble just north of the road and tracks is barely visible today.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 25, 1939
Caption:
CHELSEA'S WINNING SHEEP JUDGING TEAM: These three agricultural students and their teacher at Chelsea High school won the team judging competition at the C. Lemen & Sons farm in Webster township yesterday. Loren Koengeter, a member of the team, is shown holding the purebred Shropshire lamb he was given as a prize. Teams from seven high schools competed. Standing, left to right, are: N. H. Miles, Agricultural Teacher Thomas Bust and Roy Broesamle.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 18, 1935
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Three-Horse Team Solves Plowing Problem: Above is shown the three-horse team of beautiful dapple grays with which Oscar Lindauer, their owner, is successfully solving this fall's serious plowing problem. Despite intermittent rains since early spring, the ground on his 40-acre farm, southeast of Chelsea, is a heavy strain on tractor and horses, both of which he is using on this job. This farm is one of the largest in the county.