Watrous General Store
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Aaron Watrous and his crew of loggers came here in 1852 to cut the virgin pine of the Cass River Valley. In 1860 he platted the town, naming it Watrousville, and a few years later constructed this building as a general store. The flagpole in front is thought to have been erected during the 1864 presidential campaign.
Watrous died in 1868, and in 1882 the building became the Juniata Township Hall. Since 1972 it has been the museum of the Watrousville-Caro Area Historical Society.
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