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..... In 1867 Alonzo Sherman and Ezra L. Davis set up a saw mill
which in the peak season employed about 20 workers. They opened a
store at the crossroads mainly to serve their own employees and they
called the settlement, SHERMAN. A different name had to be picked
when the post office was opened because there was another town of the
same name in Wexford county. this was just after a depot was
established in 1871.
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......The town name
came through a story where a family came into town looking for a place
to spend the night. They were told there was a hotel just across the
street and the father of the family replyed "BRAVO".
......The last wood
products mill in Bravo was the Whiting Crate Co. The plant was
equipped to handle raw material and convert it into 500 crates a
day. In 1915 they manufactured fruit and potato crates, later to
make chicken and pickel crates.
......The photo
below displays eggs about to picked up in Bravo. One season
displayed about 25,000 packages apples and potatoes, 12 car loads of
wheatbeing shipped and several cars waited at the siding. Like in
Pearl, most establishments were eventually moved to Pullman.
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