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The Cider Business in the Early Years

The Cider Business in the Early Years

We know that William H. Yates began pressing cider at his mill on the Clinton River in 1874, but how big was the apple production in the local area that his mill served? In the 1880 agricultural census, Avon Township’s 166 farmers reported that collectively, they had...

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Visiting Yates Through the Decades

Visiting Yates Through the Decades

If you had visited Yates Mill back in 1874 when Bill Yates first started pressing cider, you’d have traveled there by horse or on foot. And you might have brought a wagonload of your own apples, fresh from the orchard, for him to press. Times may have changed, but...

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A Snapshot in Time

A Snapshot in Time

This photo of our mill is one of our favorites.  It shows us what daily life was like at Yates nearly 110 years ago. Because the photographer, Bruce Kingsbury, left his stamp on the photo, we know it was taken in 1914 or 1915; it was during that short time frame that...

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The Short Life of the Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal

The Short Life of the Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal

After Michigan became a state in 1837, its leaders looked for ways to encourage settlers to move into the state’s interior. They were inspired by the success of the Erie Canal, which had opened in 1825 in New York state and had brought many new residents from the...

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The Yates Family Story

The Yates Family Story

Our mill’s founder, William Henry Yates, had a long family history in the United States, with lineage that stretched back to the seventeenth-century Dutch settlers of colonial New York. His wife, Scholastika Caroline Hamer, who was called Caroline, was born in...

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Food and Fun Go Hand in Hand

Food and Fun Go Hand in Hand

The Posey family was offering smiles and delicious treats to visitors in the Yates area even before Charles Posey took over the cider mill operation in 1959. The Yates vicinity has been a popular leisure spot for over a century. In 1922, when Michigan’s state park...

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Cider Comes to Yates Mill

Cider Comes to Yates Mill

We know from historical land records that a sawmill stood on what is now the Yates property as early as 1848. When William and Caroline Yates settled here, they continued the sawmill operation, but in 1874, less than two years after the railroad line came through...

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What was Yates Station?

What was Yates Station?

Nine years after William Yates and his family settled on the Clinton River and started a milling business, something big happened to change the course of history for the Rochester area. The Detroit & Bay City Railway planned a route through Avon Township and...

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Daily Life . . . in 1863

Daily Life . . . in 1863

Have you ever wondered what life was like in the Rochester area when William and Caroline Yates settled here in 1863? For starters, there were a lot fewer people. The village of Rochester counted around 500 residents, while another 1,200 people were scattered...

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Les Posey & The Sticky Situation He Left Behind

Les Posey & The Sticky Situation He Left Behind

The fourth owner of Yates Cider Mill, Les Posey grew up living the Yates life. Starting when he was in high school, he had a hand in nearly every aspect of the business over his 40-year tenure at the mill – from labeling bottles, giving out cider samples, and selling...

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The Skinny on Apples: Are the Vitamins Really on the Outside?

The Skinny on Apples: Are the Vitamins Really on the Outside?

You’ve heard it for years: an apple’s nutrients are in the skin. But is that fact or fiction? And do you lose all of the nutritional value if you peel the apple? The simple truth: Most of the nutrients are in the skin, yes, but not all of them. Apples offer fiber,...

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