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Battle Creek City Hall† 13 N. Michigan Avenue Battle Creek: August 12, 1983: Battle Creek House: 2 West Michigan Avenue Battle Creek: June 26, 1959: Battle Creek No. 4 Fire Station: 175 Kendall Street Battle Creek: May 16, 1991: Battle Creek Post Office† 67 East Michigan Avenue Battle Creek: May 17, 1973: Battle Creek Sanitarium† 74 North ...
In 1835, Jonathan Hart and Joseph, Abraham, and Isaac Merritt purchased this site to establish a farm. In 1836 they platted what is now the heart of Battle Creek. As the settlement grew, Hart and the Merritts platted more of their property; in all of these plats, the lots fronting on Maple were unusually wide and deep.
The Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra is based at the W.K. Kellogg Auditorium in downtown Battle Creek. [58] The symphony is conducted by Anne Harrigan. It is Michigan's longest-running symphony orchestra. [59] The Brass Band of Battle Creek is composed of 31 brass players and percussionists from around the United States and Europe.
Lakeview Square Mall is an enclosed shopping mall serving the city of Battle Creek, Michigan. It opened in 1983 and features Horrocks Farm Market and ExtraSpace Storage as anchors. Previous anchor stores at the mall included Sears, J. C. Penney, Macy's (previously Hudson's and Marshall Field's), and Gilmore Brothers.
Beginning in 1880, W.K. Kellogg served as business manager at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, whose head physician at the time was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, W.K.'s older brother. While there, W.K. experimented with grain-based substitutes for meat and bread, and accidentally discovered a process to manufacture cereal flakes.
The city of Battle Creek was "left with an $875,000 bill for the closed attraction" [6] but Kellogg's itself bought the building for $2 million, wiped the debt, converted it into commercial office space and sold it the following year. In 2011, the building was donated to Battle Creek Public Schools. [7]
It is adjacent to Battle Creek bounded by 6½ Mile Road/Main Street on the east, Golden Road on the south I-194/M-66 on the west, and Columbia Road and the Kalamazoo River on the north. Wattles Park is unincorporated community within the township, centered on Wattles Road between Michigan Avenue and I-94 at 42°18′02″N 85°06′39″W ...
Five years later, in 1959, the GSA began using facility space for other federal organizations, and by 1962, twenty-eight different agencies were housed there. The Office for Civil Defense was moved from the Battle Creek Federal Center in late 1962 and the Sixth Corps of the U.S.