Watrousville-Caro Area Historical Society
Library Displays
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38 years of Preserving Local History   - 1972 to 2010

P.O. Box 15  - Caro, MI 48723

Last Update, August 2010                                                             Copyright 2010

Webmaster - Dave Celani        dave@watrousville.com

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We have had several displays in the lobby showcase’s of the Caro District Library.

 
June 2010
Deborah Brown, of The Saginaw News, wrote a nice article on the large Hair Wreath at the Museum and the one we have on display at the Caro Library. www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2010/06/hair_wreath_to_be_shown_in_wat.html

 
June 2009
The theme of the 2009 Library Display was “The Doctors of Tuscola County”. The display included artifacts fron local doctors of the late 1800s to early 1900.
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Library Display 2008
June 2008
 
The theme of this display was      “Baby Clothes From Early Watrousville”.
 
Display by Dave Celani

 

February 2007

Ladies Hats from Early Watrousville was the theme for this display.

Display by Dave Celani
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Library Graduation
September 2006
This month, we displayed a collage of late 1880s Graduation Announcements and pictures from Watrousville High School.
 
 Display Poster by Dave Celani
July 2006
This display featured the
“FRIENDSHIP” QUILT.
The Quilt top was made by the
Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church of Watrousville
sometime in the 1880s.
The cost was 10 cents to have a name embroidered on the quilt top.
Also displayed, were Powder Horns from the early 1800s.
 
Display by Dave Celani

 
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February, 2006
Artifacts from the Watrousville Museum caught the eye of many patrons as they entered the Caro Library. Items included the 35 star flag hand made by Mary Jane Walton and flown from the Lincoln Flag Pole in 1864, the trunk that accompanied Ebenezer Davis, the first white settler Into Tuscola County in 1835,and some early dolls and doll clothes.
 
Display by Dave Celani                
Photo by Al and Esther Gorashko

 
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