Lewis & Bower
- The 1896 Illustrated Atlas of Oakland Co. listed them as dealers in general merchandise & proprietors of a livery stable. The 1872 map of the village shows W. Lewis for a blacksmith shop on N. Main St. (now a part of the property of 20 N. Main) just south of the stream from the mill pond to Park/Parke's Lake. The tax records of 1889 listed Lewis & Crosby, which by 1891 became Lewis & Bower, for a piece, north by Goodenough, south by J. (John) West. (At the time Mr.West owned the Clarkston mills property & the water rights & the out lots, or the stream from the mill pond to Park/Parke's Lake.) So, it appears, the business of Lewis & Bower was north of the stream on what is now a part of the property of 42 N. Main.
