This photo shows the Schanzer Chicory Plant in Linwood, Michigan — a tall brick industrial building rising out of flat farmland, with early automobiles parked out front (early 1930s, exact year not confirmed).
Chicory is a root crop that can be dried and roasted, then blended into coffee to add body and stretch the supply. Local histories and later reporting say a Schanzer drying plant operated in Linwood around 1933, tying Bay County farms to a bigger Midwestern chicory network.
Do you remember this plant — or have family stories about chicory fields, harvesting, or the smell of roasting roots?
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