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January 2007 Pic of the Month
1879 Hand Book of Winter Sports

Story has it that the upstairs of the J. R. Jones General Store, now in Greenfield Village, was used for roller skating for a time—probably in the late 1870s or early 1880s—back when the store was at its original location (at right) in Waterford, Michigan.

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