Bell Opera House

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Postcard and description courtesy Wade Lynch.

EARLY DAY FARMS. Local farmer of the early 1900 didn’t have a lot of places to sell their products. Some sold to local groceries, some peddled from door to door. From 1870 on Watervliet and Coloma had the train to haul to the docks in BH, then 1909-28 the two towns along with Millburg had the Interurban also hauling to the docks for the boat trip to the Chicago markets. Others were left to the task of making the long hard trip over mud soaked roads in their buckboards to the Benton Harbor Market. All in another days survival for those early day farmers. How many people of today would work so hard, for the pennies they made??