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January 7, 2021
A local museum is highlighting historic businesses as part of a new exhibit.
Milk bottles, ice augers, and drink tokens are all on display, along with dozens of other artifacts, at the Hamburg Township Historical Museum to illustrate a new exhibit. Titled Early Ingenuity: Businesses That Once Called Hamburg Home the display highlights a sampling of prominent businesses that drove the townshipâs economy from 1900 to the 1970s.
Museum Administrator Patricia Majher says fur trading, farming, and milling were how the earliest residents of Hamburg Township made their living. She says the exhibit covers what came after that: when the first stores and services were established, tourism-related businesses developed, and industry first gained a toehold in the area. Among the tourism artifacts are drink tokens that were given to customers of J.W. Winkelhausâ Hamburg Hotel, once located in the old village of Hamburg. Majher commented that e