Historical Trolley Tours
Tours narrated by the Saline Historical Society on August 10
Take a break and enjoy a short (approx. 20 mins) narrated History in Motion trolley ride around town. Your guides will be Zelpha Parsons, wife of Banker Willliam Davenport, Lucretia Gillett, photographer and A.C. Clarke, Undertaker.
The route:
Downtown Start – Wait for the trolley at the SE corner of Michigan Chicago Rd. & S. Ann Arbor St.
Citizens Bank, Harmon House, brick hotel, Schneider Saloon, Union Block
East on Michigan to Old Creek Drive
Downtown, Interurban, American House, Presbyterian Church, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Davenport-Curtiss House, Five Points
East Henry to South Ann Arbor
Beverly Davenport’s House, Early Saline homes
South Ann Arbor, Henry Intersection
Methodist Church, Baptist Church, Saline Phone Co.
West Henry
Early Saline homes, Schoolhouse, Orange Risdon’s house
Monroe Street
Cemetary founded c. 1825, Original location of Orange Risdon’s house, Annin-Peoples House
West Michigan to Downtown
St. Paul’s Church, Saline Exchange, Lucius Pierce Saline Painter, Burkhart-Risdon Building, Time Capsule, First sawed wood and first commercial building in Saline downtown, today’s Brecon Grille