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Podcast: Tales of Southwest Michigan's Past
Episode: The Story of Dogtown in Leroy Township
Description: There was once a small community in Leroy Township known as Dogtown. Â Today you would not even know this community every existed. Â How did this community which was originally known as Fiddler's Grove become Dogtown? Â These are the questions I asked myself when I first discovered the title of the little village marked on an 1894 Atlas of Leroy Township. Â I began searching newspaper archives and history books and began to piece together the interesting history of this lost community just south of Battle Creek.
In my search, I discovered some interesting stories! Â The oldest man to possibly ever...