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Almost a Century on Tienken Road: A History of King's Cove
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Max Mallon (1975) |
In 1984, Cove resident Nancy Unwin interviewed Max Mallon, former owner of the land on which King's Cove was built. Her narrative appeared that year in the Cove's Neighborly News where it was reprinted in 1992. In 2008, another resident, Sharon Muir, expanded Unwin's work into this broader history of the condominium association.
Early Years
The land on which the King's Cove condominiums stand once was occupied by a sand-brick plant. In 1913, J. H. Schlucter, an experienced brick maker, "bought 110 acres of land near Paint Creek and the Michigan Central Railroad northwest of Rochester." Excavations of the sandy terrain, dug until clay was reached, formed the contours that surround King's Cove. Sand was combined with lime in an intensely hot retort located near the cur-rent Clubhouse. The plant also housed a generator and a pumping station. Water that cooled the machinery ran from Paint Creek through pipes that still lie under the King's Cove property.
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