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Battle Creek

by Kurt Thornton
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In the 1960s, Battle Creek was a successful industrial town known around the world as the "Cereal City" due to the area's largest employers, the ready-to-eat breakfast food companies of Ralston Foods, the Kellogg Company, and the Post division of General Foods. As these long-established businesses began to downsize, automate, and relocate, the community met the new economic and social challenges by developing a downtown pedestrian mall, converting a former military base into a vibrant industrial park, and merging two municipalities into the third-largest city (by area) in Michigan. These changes, along with many others, have continued to guide this Midwestern community into the 21st century.

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Series: Images of Modern America Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc. Edition: Updated

Kindle Book

  • Release date: May 20, 2014

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781439642849
  • Release date: May 20, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781439642849
  • File size: 28482 KB
  • Release date: May 20, 2014

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subjects

History Nonfiction

Languages

English

In the 1960s, Battle Creek was a successful industrial town known around the world as the "Cereal City" due to the area's largest employers, the ready-to-eat breakfast food companies of Ralston Foods, the Kellogg Company, and the Post division of General Foods. As these long-established businesses began to downsize, automate, and relocate, the community met the new economic and social challenges by developing a downtown pedestrian mall, converting a former military base into a vibrant industrial park, and merging two municipalities into the third-largest city (by area) in Michigan. These changes, along with many others, have continued to guide this Midwestern community into the 21st century.

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History Nonfiction