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  • This is a photograph of a receipt for Dennis Shields who purchased a burial plot at the St. Joseph Catholic Church, Cemetery, known as the Howell Catholic Cemetery, 1898.  Dennis Shields, attorney, Howell, Michigan, died August 28, 1898.  He is now buried in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Howell, which was established in 1914.  The date of purchase of this cemetery plot is September 1, 1898.

    According to the book, "Mt Olivet Cemetery Tombstone Transcriptions", August 1992, published by the Livingston County Genealogical Society, the first Catholic Cemetery in Howell was established March 14, 1891 when the Howell Catholic Cemetery Association purchased a 4.25 acre parcel of land from Charles E. and Katherine Itsell of Genoa township for the cost of $250.  The parcel was located on the west side of Chilson Road (formerly known as Ann Arbor Road), 600 feet south of the Old Grand River Road in section six of Genoa township.

    The LCGS did not find the names of the individuals interred in the present (1992) church records.  They concluded that sometime around 1900, remains were re-interred in other cemeteries although there are no know records or plats of the old cemetery and no history of removal and re-interment of those remains.   Later, the land was sold to several private individuals for home sites, and homes are located there now.

    View Livingston Republican August 31, 1898 Article (In Library Use Only)

  • Photographs of the Howell Chamber of Commerce Building, 303 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan.  It was next to Presbyterian Church, and in the photo local business men are painting the building, 1949.

    The persons in the photographs are unknown.
  • This is a photograph of the Howell Chamber of Commerce Building, 303 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan,  1957.
  • Howell City Hall was remodeled when it occupied 111 N Michigan Ave.
  • This shows when Howell City Hall was on N. Michigan Ave.
  • This is a photograph of the Howell Co-Operative Company, 214 North Walnut Street, Howell, Michigan, 1964.
  • This is a photograph of the interior of the Howell Electric Light and Water Works Plant, located on South Michigan Ave. south of C&0 Railroad tracks where water tank was.

    Date of the photograph is unknown.
  • This is a photograph of the interior of the Howell Electric Light and Water Works Plant, located on South Michigan Avenue, Howell, Michigan, south of C&0 Railroad tracks where water tank was.
  • This is a photograph of the exterior of the Howell Electric Light and Water Works Plant, located on South Michigan Avenue, Howell, Michigan, south of C&0 Railroad tracks where water tank was.

    The date of the photograph is unknown.
  • This is an aerial view of Howell Electric Motors, Company, Electric Apparatus, 409 Roosevelt Street, Howell, Michigan,  1960.

    This photograph looks northeast; north of the plant is Mt. Olivet Cemetery, and Thompson Lake.  Visible just south of the plant is the Ann Arbor Railroad Tracks, intersected by Roosevelt Street.
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