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Podcast: Stories From Another Day
Episode: Rising from the Ashes: The Bryan Manufacturing Company
Description: On April 4, 1915, a fire sparked by faulty wiring tore through the Bryan Manufacturing Company’s factory located on Huron Street. The fire consumed the building, but fortunately, no lives were lost.The bigger blaze came afterwards, in the days and weeks of public debate between the company’s owners and the town over what would rise from the ashes. Much of that drama played out in the opinion pages of local newspapers. Episode Picture: Bryan Manufacturing Company’s newly constructed warehouse on the north side of Huron Street...