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[ 17] Battle Creek figured prominently in the early history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It was the site of a Protestant church founding convention in 1863. The denomination's first hospital, college, and publishing office would also be constructed in the city.
HISTORY. How the 1964 Republican Convention Sparked a Revolution From the Right. At the ugliest of Republican conventions since 1912, entrenched moderates faced off against conservative...
The Creek War (also the Red Stick War or the Creek Civil War) was a regional conflict between opposing Native American factions, European powers, and the United States during the early 19th century. The Creek War began as a conflict within the tribes of the Muscogee, but the United States quickly became involved.
Under the direction (1876–1943) of the physician John Harvey Kellogg, the sanitarium experimented with health foods, leading to the manufacture of ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, which became the city’s main industry. The Cereal Festival, with “the world’s longest breakfast table,” is an annual (June) event.
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For more information, check the website of Heritage Battle Creek or Sojourner Truth Institute of Battle Creek. Read a short history about Battle Creek and learn how it got the name, early settlers, early economic foundations and more.
4–8 killed. 9 wounded. 31–34 captives (of whom many were later killed) none reported. The Battle of Thomas Creek, also known as the Thomas Creek Massacre, was an ambush of a small detachment of mounted Georgia Militia by a mixed force of British soldiers, Loyalist militia, and British-allied Indians on May 17, 1777 near the mouth of Thomas ...
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In the state of Michigan, racial disturbances and civil unrest during 1967-1968 also happened in other cities with sizable and segregated black populations, including Flint, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Benton Harbor, Pontiac, and Grand Rapids.
