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·Overview -
»Archives and Collections -
·Endowment Fund -
»History -
·Meet the Staff -
·Membership -
»Mothers, Daughters, and Leaders of Oakland County -
»Museum Site -
·Museum Store -
·Exhibits, Programs and Multi-Media -
·Renting Museum Buildings and Grounds -
»Rochester Grangers Vintage Base Ball -
·Stoney Creek Schoolhouse -
·Teachers Resources -
·Wall of Donors -
·Your Wedding
History
·Our Community's History -
·Blizzard of 1886 -
·Calvin H. Greene -
·Charles Chapman House -
·Chapman Pond -
·Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal -
·D.M. Ferry Company -
·Detroit-Pavilion Hotel -
·Detroit Sugar Mill -
·Detroit United Railway -
·Dillman and Upton -
·Joshua Van Hoosen's Big Barn -
·King's Cove -
·Log Cabins -
·Marsden C. Burch -
·Mills -
·One-Room Schoolhouses -
·Parke-Davis Farm -
·Railroads -
·Rock & Roll -
·Sarah Van Hoosen Jones' Childhood Pets -
·Ski Slide -
·Snow Storm of 1918 -
·St. Andrews Church -
·St James Hotel -
·Stony Creek or Stoney Creek -
·Subdivisions -
·Taylor-Van Hoosen-Jones Family History -
·Uriah Adams -
·Volcanoes -
·Woodward School
 Sarah's Childhood Pets
Sarah Van Hoosen Jones was a pet lover and kept scrapbooks of a variety of animals, such as parrots, dogs, and ponies, as pets throughout her life. The pictures in this exhibit are just a few examples of her beloved pets.
Her earliest pet was Polly, a double yellow head Mexican parrot. Joshua Van Hoosen had purchased Polly in Detroit in the early 1880s. On a trip to New Orleans, Sarah Taylor Van Hoosen had found a bird store and asked one of the workers how to teach a parrot to talk. She was told to "cover the cage with a heavy blanket and talk to the bird." Joshua and Sarah tried the worker's suggestion and soon they had taught Polly how to talk.
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