General Guide Sponsors • Albion, Michigan - General Guide to the Arts & Trails

Thanks to the following sponsors, we are able to publish the General Guide to Albion, Marshall and Calhoun County. The General Guide is distributed through the Morning Star shopper newspaper in Albion, and to students in Marshall and Albion College. The Guide is also available at the participating businesses shown on the right.

Morning Star and the Recorder – Salesman Publications

Thank you to the Morning Star and the Recorder newspapers for sponsoring every issue of the General Guide since Issue ...
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Courtyard by Marriott, Albion opening date information

See a tour of the downtown Albion hotel here: Courtyard by Marriott – Albion – Tour – April 2018 Thanks ...
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Albion Train Depot – Mowrer Agency

Mowrer Agency, which is located in the train depot, is the sponsor for this special one-month edition of the General Guide ...
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Albion Community Foundation – Sponsor of the Giving Edition of the General Guide

Albion Community Foundation has sponsored the Giving Edition of the General Guide in 2015, , , and . In 2017 the ...
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Marshall Community Foundation

Marshall Community Foundation was a co sponsor of General Guide XXVII, The Giving Edition, featuring Giving Tuesday. The Marshall Community ...
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Albion Big Read

Albion's Big Read is a program that aims to empower youth and bring communities together through shared reading experiences. Albion ...
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Albion College

Albion College is a private liberal arts college located in Albion, Michigan. Affiliated with the United Methodist Church, it was founded in 1835 and was ...
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Schuler’s Restaurant Marshall

Schuler's history of hospitality is closely tied to Marshall Michigan's fame for hospitality. Hear the story of this history as ...
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Albion Marshall Resilient Communities Project

Thank you to Albion Marshall Resilient Communities Project for sponsoring General Guide to Albion XXIV - May June 2017. Their ...
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Jolly Green Junction

Local gifts for every season including honey, maple syrup, local eggs, beef and pork from Blight Farms, and much more ...
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Blight Farms Local Meat

Blight Farms has been a sponsor of the Local Food Edition of General Guide since 2015. Visit Blight Farms on ...
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Albion Food Hub & Farmers’ Market

The sponsor of the Local Food Edition - May and June, has been Albion Farmers' Market and Albion Food Hub ...
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Parks Drug Store

Serving the health needs of the Albion Michigan area, since 1921. Near Albion College and open six days a week ...
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MAEDA

Thank you to Marshall Area Economic Development Alliance for sponsoring the General Guide XXII, the History Edition. Marshall is a city ...
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Bohm Theatre

Downtown Albion is looking good with the newly refurbished Bohm Theatre. The Bohm Theatre was completed with the help of ...
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Albion’s Historic Architecture – Parker Inn

The Parker Inn of Albion was built in 1926, serving guests included politicians and dignitaries, as well as the notorious such as Al Capone and members of the Purple Gang. The Parker Inn was named in honor of Harry B. Parker, the manager, and vice-president of the Albion Malleable Iron Company.

The inn went through hard times during the depression but Parker kept the business going. After a number of ownership changes, the hotel was closed in 1970 and the building was subsequently remodeled into offices and private apartments. The building was renamed Munger Place.

In 2018 it was announced that Oaklawn Hospital and Albion College would combine resources to create a healthcare clinic for Albion College students and residents of Albion in the Munger Place. Notecard with this art by Maggie LaNoue and the Parker Inn legend on the back are available at Pure Albion gift shop downtown. Click here to read more about the story of the Parker Inn here.