Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Rochester and Rochester Hills Authors

ROCHESTER, Mich. - June 8, 2013 - PRLog -- Rochester and Rochester Hills grew in a territory of three rivers, abundantly fertile pastures and rolling oak forests on land once considered uninhabitable. Though only 30 miles from Detroit, official government reports of swampy and barren land deterred settlers.

In 1817 the Graham family disregarded these reports instead following the advice of Native Americans to reach a territory governed by a triumvirate of creeks which were forceful enough to power several mills yet gentle enough to support thriving farms. Only 20 years later every plot in Rochester had been sold. Later the village was made a stop on the network of Michigan railroads, cementing its fate as a vigorous and popular community.

With a past boasting such illustrious citizens as auto baron John Dodge and internationally prominent obstetrician Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen with corporations like Parke-Davis and philanthropic organizations such as Leader Dogs for the Blind, Rochester remains a source of innovative leadership as well as a model for successful suburbia.

Join the Authors for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

400 Brown Road, Auburn Hills MI 48326

When:  Saturday, June 15th, 2013; 12:00 —3:00 p.m.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.