Battle Creek House

The Battle Creek House, a stagecoach stop and the social and political hub of the settlement from 1836 to 1866, stood here. The balconied three-story inn was destroyed by a fire late in the 1860’s. In 1870 Daniel Reily put up a “solid brick” building housing stores, offices, and, from 1903 to 1931, the Central National Bank. It was known as the C. E. Thomas Block between 1892 and 1956. Remodeling by Peoples Savings and Loan Association in 1957 left the basic structure unchanged.

Legend. A legend recorded by Flavius J. Littlejohn in 1875 holds that Battle Creek in Calhoun County, Michigan is haunted. In the version that reached print, it is tied to a fire. The Haunted Guide carries it as nineteenth-century folklore from Legends of Michigan and the old North West; or, A cluster of unpublished…, not as established fact.

Sources: Michigan History Center — Michigan Historical Markers, Legends of Michigan and the old North West; or, A cluster of unpublished… (Flavius J. Littlejohn, 1875).

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