Introducing…

Albion!

Where is Albion?

Albion is in Michigan. Michigan is surrounded by the five Great Lakes and they are: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. Michigan is by Canada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana.

The lakes hold about one fifth of the world’s fresh water. People fish, swim, boat, and canoe inthe lakes.

Albion is in the southern part of Michigan. Did you know your school is over 1,200 miles and 20 hours away from us? What a long car trip!

Albion’s History

The first people to live here were the friendly Potawatomi Indians who settled near the forks of the Kalamazoo River. They fished and hunted the wild life which was plentiful.

Their arrowheads can still be found. Their hogans built of twigs and bark were located near where Riverside Cemetery is today.

The Potawatomi women used a grinding stone to crush corn and acorns and another grinding stone to make meal. These Indians, Albion’s first settlers, left the area by the 1840’s.

Tenney Peabody built the first house. Eleanor Peabody, his wife, gave Albion its name after Jesse Crowell’s hometown of Albion, New York. Jesse was an important Albion pioneer who put money into Albion.

The Kalamazoo River

We have a river, the Kalamazoo River, that splits in half. It makes a fork. We have the Festival of the Forks every year because the Kalamazoo River splits and that is how we got the idea for the Festival of the Forks.

Albion was known as “the Forks” until the wife of our first settler, Eleanor Peabody, named the growing town “Albion.” People today still fish and hunt in the Kalamazoo River.

Victory Park

Victory Park is Albion’s biggest park and wasnamed for World War One soldiers who were part of theAllied Forces. Victory Park is a good place for family

andkids. While parents watch on park benches, children swing on swing sets and play on playground equipment.

At Victory Park when it snows you can slide on the hill. It is fun! Older kids can race on their bikes, play tag, soccer, or basketball on the basketball court.

Monster tag is fun to play on the playground equipment.

KIDSN

STUFF

We went as a class to Kids’N’Stuff for a field trip, but you can go there for birthday parties or just for fun. It was so fun. It is a place for kids where you can play with so many things. They have an art room to draw and paint and a music room where there are real instruments to play.

There is also a place for dress up and a real stage for plays! The pretend grocery store is fun to look around. Those are just some of the fun things you can do at Kids’N’Stuff.

Schools in Albion

We have Caldwell, Harrington, Washington Gardner, Albion High School and Albion College here in Albion. The grades go from preschool through 12th grade, starting at Caldwell and ending at Albion High School. We would like to know what schools you have in Houston. Do you have 300 or more kids in your school? We do at Harrington.

The college students come to help us with math, spelling, and writing. Our principal is named Mr. Wilson. What is your principal’s name?

Maybe someday you could come see us at Harrington!