Whispering Oaks In Battle Creek Michigan (2024)

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What is the oldest house in Battle Creek Michigan? ›

Shepard house and considered Battle Creek's oldest home.

As the birthplace of the cereal industry, Battle Creek was known around the world. As an army town, it was the basic training site for American soldiers during both world wars, and the home of the famous Percy Jones Orthopedic Hospital.

On March 14, 1825, two white men, members of a surveying party, and two Indians fought a desperate battle on the bank of a small river in southern Michigan. Because of the battle, the surveyors dubbed the stream Battle Creek, thereby providing the world's Health City with a name.

First Cemetery In Battle Creek, MI. Section 1, Champion and Washington Streets, Battle Creek. Moved to Oak Hill in 1844. THE NAMES BELOW MAY HAVE BEEN BURIED IN THE FIRST CEMETERY THERE ARE NO RECORDS FOR THIS CEMETERY.

Westcroft Gardens & Farm is a 247-year-old business, only two days younger than the United States itself.

Kellogg bought out his brother's interest and in 1906 established the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. Through innovative advertising and improvements in the quality of the cereals, the company prospered. The name Kellogg's was adopted in 1922 after the company began making cereals other than corn flakes.

Battle Creek has been nicknamed "the Cereal City."

In the case of Battle Creek, 44% rated the City as an excellent or good place to live. Respondents' ratings of Battle Creek as a place to live were much lower than ratings in other communities across the nation.

Are there cereal factory tours? Many visitors remember the ice cream served at the end of the Kellogg Tour. The tours were discontinued in the 1980s, though, so if you want cereal-inspired ice cream you'll have to go to somewhere like True North.

When was the Battle Creek massacre? ›

The Battle Creek massacre was a lynching of a Timpanogos group on March 5, 1849, by a group of 35 Mormon settlers at Battle Creek Canyon near present-day Pleasant Grove, Utah.