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Photographer: Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, W. Bryant Tyrell, photographer
Caption: Anderson Marker — middle right image
Additional Description: Edwin S. George (1873-1951)
Detroit businessman Edwin S. George manufactured the United States' first gasoline-powered lawn mower. In 1927, he purchased 1,250 acres in Livingston County to use as a game reserve. The property's landscape of moraines and basins was created by glaciers advancing and retreating. He fenced and stocked it with Upper Peninsula deer and antelope from Alberta, Canada.

In 1930, George donated the property to the University of Michigan as a private educational resource for students and scout troops to learn "an appreciation of the truer values of life as expressed by the truth in Nature."
Submitted: July 21, 2022, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p668056
File Size: 3.595 Megabytes

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