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History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1883
A. T. Andreas, Proprietor

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                                CENTRAL
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        Central is located south of Copper Falls on adjoining property.
     There are 130 houses on the location and a population of about 1,200.
        In 1868, a Methodist Church was built, mostly by the company, and
     has never been transferred to the Methodist Episcopal Society. It has
     a membership of about sixty. REV. R. NICHOLS is the pastor in charge
     of the district.
        The Central Schoolhouse was built by the Central Company in 1878,
     at a cost of about $7,500. It is forty by seventy feet, and three
     stories high, including the Mansard roof. It stands upon a commanding
     position, well up the greenstone bluff, which rises to a height of 700
     feet at this place. Two lower floors are divided into four rooms for
     the graded school, and the upper is used for a hall. Three teachers
     are employed at a salary of $191.61 per month. There are 359 children
     drawing school funds, with an average daily attendance of 138 pupils.
        The store has been owned by the Central Company since 1868, and has
     been in charge of PERKINS BURNHAM since 1872. Average stock, $30,000.
        The Philanthropic Society of Sherman, a secret society, local to
     the mining districts, has a lodge here - Conquering Hero, No. 4 -
     chartered April 6, 1872, numbering about seventy members. They have
     $550 in the treasury. THOMAS MORGAN is W. G. M., and JOHN T. HOLMAN,
     W. S.
        The Good Templars are represented by Keweenaw Lodge, I. O. G. T.,
     No. 23, which was chartered by the Grand Lodge of the Upper Peninsula,
     May 6, 1882. It has thirty-two members in good standing. MISS JENNIE
     BENNETT is W. C. T., and EMIL T. W. DAMUE, W. S.

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