A rail-side factory marked “Clinton Cider Co.” stretches along the tracks in this historic view from Ovid, Michigan, with a tall smokestack rising behind the main building. The captioning on the image includes “Ovid, Mich.” and “#15,” and the plant’s painted signage is easy to spot across multiple sections of the complex.
An archival record for this same image dates it to 1914, when cider-making here was industrial — built to move product out by rail, not just press a few gallons for the neighborhood. It’s a glimpse of the bigger food-and-farm economy that once ran through small-town Michigan.
Do you know where the Clinton Cider Co. buildings stood in Ovid — or have family stories tied to the cider works?
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