VanBuren County

Breedsville Album

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Main Street

Main Street c1907

Main Street

Main Street 1920's

Old School 1900
Burnt shortly after this photo

Breedsville School 1901-1960
Originally a K-12 School. High school closed when upstairs was unsafe.  High school students went to South Haven or Bangor.

Breedsville Methodist Church
Built in 1877 and burned about 1953. The steeple was destroyed by lightning in early 1900's and not rebuilt.

Breedsville Methodist Church

Breedsville Methodist Church

New Breedsville Methodist Chruch

Gaynor's Store

Starback's Grocery
Eva Starback Palmer in front of her parents' Axel & Anna Starback's store

Hawley Hardware

Art Hartman Hardware
John Fedornack in foreground

Harness Shop

Barber Shop

Canning Factory

Coal Sheds

The Elms Hotel

Breedsville Dance Hall

Breedsville Bandstand

Breedsville Baseball Team
Back: Harry Toot, Clarence Barkhouse, Henry Sibole, Emerson Reese, Robert Douglas, Frank Ferguson, Myron Garver, Clarence Abbott, Ampey?; Front: Pard Johnson, Clyde Johnson (child), Eliot Gardner

Breedsville Band
Front: Clair Leedy, Gus Schemenauer, Bill Frude, Harry Starback, Art Landstrom; 2nd: Frank Nelson, Gilbert Landers, Paul Daines (behind drum), Ernest Boiseman (director), Raymond Starback; Back: Orrie "Pat" Zook, Leroy Lee, Lorenz Paulus, Clifford Landers, Grover Page

Breedsville School 1926-7
Front: Mary Pike, Eleanor Weberg, Lettie Royal, Eva Starback, Art Lee, Edna Miller, Anna Behrens, Ruth Page, Violet Frude; 2nd: Irma Stocks, Thora Love, Ralph Barr, Phillip Miller, Mr. Barr (teacher), Eileen McDonald (teacher), Dick Lee, Leonard Lee; Back: Sylva Mortensen, Marie Fry, Esther Massiner, Doris Richter

Breedsville School 1948-9
See class list to the right
Front: Henry Bondurak, Harold Welder, CHester Slezak, Susie Sauers, Leroy Lee, Rosalie Harris, Buddy Brown, Harold Puckett, Arthur Lee, Sharon Leedy, Keith Nelson; Middle: Melvin Wadas, Billy Boouton, Robert Hartman, Sandra Nelson, Donnie Palmer, Robert farley, Fred Lee, Robert Waterman; Third: Joann Fris, Julian Chapman, Ross McNicholas, Nancy Puckett, Howard Puckett, Arthur Hartman, George Welder; Back: Joan Palmer, Lula Ann Teal, Tommy Cassada, Eilene Chapman, Geraldine Wadas, Arlene Chapman, Gertrude Tellander (teacher), Don Wadas; Absent: Marilyn Warren, Edwin Metcalf, Jerome Wadas
Breedsville Mill

Breedsville Mill

Breedsville Mill

Breedsville Mill

Breedsville in Fall

Whitney Store, Creamery, and Residence

Breedsville Flood
September 17, 2008
The Breedsville Dam failed after heavy rain flooding streets and the park.