Michigan
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now" - Paul Simon The Yorkshire Pudding Spotlight of Curiosity falls today upon a rather ordinary little town in Lapeer County, Michigan, USA. It's North Branch which has grown slowly since it was first settled in 1856. It now has a population of 1096. Two years ago, it was visited by a YouTube contributor called Daryl Turcott. He mostly focused on the town's Orr Historical Museum and this was the six minute video he produced:- By the way, I deduce that the little town's unusual name is derived from the fact that it stands on the north branch of The Flint River. For a while in the second half of the nineteenth century, it was known as Beachville after Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beach who were two of the very first settlers. I guess that Mr. and Mrs. George Simmons - the other first settlers - may have objected. I took a look around North Branch myself with the help of Google Streetview. It seemed a sleepy kind of pl...