6/1/2012
Portage and Main turns 150 years old Saturday. The joining of the Main Road (Main Street) and the westward cart road (Portage Avenue) to form our now famous intersection occurred June 2nd, 1862 when Henry McKenney and his business partner John Christian Shultz purchased Lot 248 from Andrew McDermot, with the intention of building a store where the north-south and east-west roads crossed. However the roads - known today as Portage Avenue and Main Street - existed long before 1862.
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