More History Per Square Mile Than Any City - Battle Creek, Michigan

[@stephenrrose]

I pretty much grew up in Battle Creek, and spent 18 years with the Ambulance Service there. Repelled down a tower in the Ft Custer Training area as we were called to stand by with our ambulance while certain agencies did training. I was also on duty when they took the Kellogg House down North Ave to its now resting spot, and taught CPR and First Aid to the staff and Security at the Kellogg foundation in that house! I hope you had a good lunch at Clara's on the river! My parents are buried in Ft Custer National Cemetary! This video really hit the heartstrings. I salute the Police, Fire and EMS of Battle Creek and all the Military in and out of there as well.!!! Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@williamshrubb5653]

Thanks for sharing our Battle Creek. It's challenging living here, but Battle Creek's rich history deserves to be told. Thanks for sharing!

[@themoonman-4]

Awesome! My city!glad you visited and Thank You! For featuring fort custer

[@RestlessViking]

You bet!

[@jimdoolittle7925]

Great video of a town I once lived in. I have ridden much of the linear park, but it was still under construction, now you two have filled in some of the blanks. The ride to Battle Creek, from my home now, is about 115 miles, and it takes about 8 hours of pedaling. It's a beautiful ride and an exhausting one. One of the highlights of the ride is Stop 66 ice cream shop about 5 miles south of town on M66. Thank you both for a bunch of great videos!

[@RestlessViking]

Very cool!

[@CindyLoser]

Grew up in Battle Creek. Went thru Kellogg's several times during the summer months with my

[@CindyLoser]

Brothers. Ate cereal nearly every day at no cost to us.

[@smbjcm]

So much history in BC. 7th day Adventist village, Oak Hill Cemetery, Kelloggs, Post...

[@orsonwells7997]

Went on the cereal factory tour when I was a little kid. Wish I knew where my Tony the Tiger souvenir spoon went to.

[@RestlessViking]

Probably worth a fortune.

[@DWRogersSR]

I went there as well on a field trip, Late sixties? They gave us Ice cream with fruit loops on it.

[@orsonwells7997]

@@RestlessViking That is what I hear... Go figure. lol.

[@RestlessViking]

@@DWRogersSR Clearly I went to the wrong school. We went to the gypsum mines and hammered rocks!

[@DWRogersSR]

@@RestlessViking LOL, also went to Dearborn the Chevy plant

[@midoriya-shonen]

Thanks for putting the spotlight on Battle Creek. It's a lovely city with so many interesting things, but it's underappreciated and underpopulated. It feels good to see it get some recognition, and to see all the places I've been be highlighted.

[@RestlessViking]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Auxrad39]

I love the trike rides :)

[@operagh0st]

My hometown! Hope to see you revisit sometime. Love your channel!!

[@howlinhog]

Great job of making the armpit of west Michigan look pretty good.

[@redwatch1100]

Haha, they did a great job.

[@joelgardner2847]

Armpit? Try Kalamazoo dumb shit

[@lizannz4711]

😊I'm a Michigander and I really appreciate this video. Thank you for making it.

[@RestlessViking]

You are so welcome! Thanks for stopping by!

[@megmolkate]

The Schoolcraft Underground Railroad station still exists on an east west road a few blocks north of W-avenue on the east side of town. It still has a historic marker last that I knew. Been a while though.

[@620ironwolf]

next time you guys come to battle creek, you'll have to check out historic bridge park!!

[@LadyYoop]

This is so fabulous. What great info you share. This is so cool....and that statue for the Underground Railroad? AMAZING! I can't wait for the next adventure. This was awesome!

[@paulharwood1281]

What an amazing adventure about BattleCreek, well done for a couple of Bikers. I really like them and they look really comfortable to ride. Until the next adventure Happy New Year :)🚙

[@svengalt9546]

Amazing video! I am still laughing about the grape nuts label shown.

[@ljpolley]

Best Michigan history channel ever!

[@birdnv4547]

Great Vid - Thanks for making - very active and interesting - well written and edited - Mike in NM

[@jeannebrauher3587]

You two have the best adventures!

[@SaltyMermaidClub]

Fantastic bikes

[@georgekn3mp]

I've slept in those bare wooden barracks too many times to remember, back in the 90's and 2000's when Fort Custer was a lot more active for Army National Guard training and small arms ranges. They are as bare inside and old as any barracks I have slept in. We even had to post nightly "fire guards" at night because that was such old dry wooden buildings. The Full Blast Splash Park was the best part of training weekends since families and kids got to visit if you weren't too busy. The Kalamazoo Air Zoo and Binder Park Zoo are also great places to visit near there. And the Field of Flight air show once a year at Battle Creek Airport with carnival festivities and rides for the kids

[@RestlessViking]

Absolutely on the "Zoos". They are amazing! I remember the Fire Guard too! I also remember waxing/polish the wood floors in those old barracks. In basic, we had the same era barracks at Fort Knox for in-processing.

[@georgekn3mp]

@@RestlessViking so funny, my basic and advanced tank crew training was at Fort Knox back in 1987. Even back then those Barracks were nicer and newer than the ones at Fort Custer. I'm sure even the WW2 German prisoners of war that were interned at Fort Custer thought they were old barracks even back in the 1940's 😆

[@privatepilot4064]

I’ve been to Harriet Tubmans house in Florida.

[@anthonygiglio9860]

Great Video I Live In Battle Creek I Enjoyed It ❤

[@LesterHalstead]

My Dad owned that house where we lived in the fifties and sixties. Where you rode was the river that backed up to our property before they put the road in. Thanks for the memories.

[@judyengland4266]

Great tour. You showed me things in my home town that I have never seen or haven't seen for years. Thanks.

[@coopersides4497]

Great video! I live in South side Battle Creek and love cycling if you guys ever find yourself near would love to cycle with you guys 😁

[@Geovinneversie]

I love this city

[@jamesdixon8891]

Wow great information Sojuner Truth was not talked about or how Battle Creek received it's name ....Great video and highlights the city 😊😊😊

[@RestlessViking]

There was so much history left out. It simply can't be put in a single video. Thanks for watching!

[@privatepilot4064]

They got into a war over cereal? Does that make them the first cereal killers? Just wondering. Great video!

[@RestlessViking]

😂😂

[@boxsterman77]

Beautiful memorial to the Underground Railroad.

[@wrenchmonkey3920]

Harriet is buried in Auburn NY. I used to walk thru that cemetery when I lived there. It's called Fort Hill cem, which refers to the first nations fort it was built over. It's believed the moundbuilder people from the Ohio area built it rather than the Senecas etc. That north country trail marker was maybe printed by my by uncle's sign shop here in Syracuse. he had the contract years ago.

[@RestlessViking]

Cool history - thanks for sharing. I was a board member for the NCTA a few years ago and I believe we still ordered from NY.

[@wrenchmonkey3920]

@@RestlessViking love the videos & mini trips & stories.

[@The_Hiking_Viking]

And speaking of sons from Ohio... George Custer, for which Camp/Fort Custer was named after, admitted after the Civil War that his younger brother, Thomas Custer, should have been the General and he the Lieutenant. Thomas Custer was the first solider ever to gallantly earn TWO Medal of Honors. Both in April of 1865 during the Civil War, while serving under his brother George in his Calvary unit. Thomas had balls of steel, capturing two Confederate Battle Flags during two different fights. Thomas continued serving under his famous brother George and died with him at Little Bighorn.

[@RestlessViking]

Didn't know that.

[@BarefootViking]

Not far away on Carver Road a famous stone sculptor was born and raised

[@RestlessViking]

With barefeet and a nordic disposition???

[@BarefootViking]

@@RestlessViking lol this sounds right

[@etchersplace]

Both of my sisters work at the Federal Center. It's hunted.

[@gregw107]

Ba’l Crick!

[@redwatch1100]

Having lived here my whole life, you guys really did a great job polishing a turd on this one lol.

[@markkline2920]

Harriet Tubman lived and died in Harmonia. A ghost town in Fort Custer park.

[@cedwardreed]

Flushing MI here! My wife and I enjoy your videos and look forward to every new one. Have you looked into adding a donate/super thanks thingee button? I bet we followers would throw some coin your way to help defer costs or at least buy inner tubes for the recumbent bikes :) All the best!

[@RestlessViking]

Hello Flushing MI! There should be a "Thanks" button showing just under the video on the right side - a couple over from the share button. If it isn't showing then its something else I don't know how to do! 😂 And thanks for any help you can throw our way!

[@bdgross1]

Neglected to mention that Battle Creek was the birthplace of Seventh Day Adventism. Or the skirmish that gave Battle Creek its name. Just too much history to cover in 9 minutes, but good job anyway.

[@SARGE1966]

Cats out of the bag. Need a video on your military service history ...interesting. Red Beret? Army? Unit?

[@RestlessViking]

That was a couple decades ago. . . I did some stuff for the Army, mostly with units of the XVIII Airborne Corps, just like thousands before and after me. It was an adventure, visited lots of places around the world and I got some free clothes, of which the jump boats still fit. 😄😄

[@gus473]

Is this a serial? 😉

[@RestlessViking]

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[@jonhutchens9770]

Fort Custer was also where the Spanish flu started .

[@kainjunk]

You totally glossed over one of the most bizarre facts about Kellogg. The reason the brothers disagreed on selling it and such is cuz it was originally made as a bland tasteless food that would not "excite" the mind. Dr. Kellogg made it to treat masturbation which at the time was seen as an illness. He saw adding sugar to it as literally doing the opposite of what it was designed to do. Also another note, Dr. Kellogg was not as much obsessed with his patients as he was with his colon. He wrote books on the colon, including reportedly spending his wedding night writing one of them. He believed in Yogurt enemas to help with colon health so he had a daily one himself and required all his patients to as well. Also there is a lot of darker stuff bout him, lets just say he perfected other much more brutal methods than bland cereal to stop masturbation... He is a fascinating subject.

[@The_Hiking_Viking]

You need to start carrying a trail chainsaw on that trike to clear the path, got the space. Ha. Been thru Battle Creek a few times, plus geocaching adventures in Fort Custer R.A., good times had. If you ever have some 'down time', watch, "The Road to Wellville". Anthony Hopkins plays Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and it's a funny flick. Off to see why Battle Creek got it's name, this son of Ohio does not know.

[@RestlessViking]

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[@tonyv8925]

The tale goes like this: Two drunken surveyors got into a fight with some local Indians, in the area now known as Verona. Which, by the way, was supposed to be the original name of Battle Creek. Somehow the local leaders decided to name the town, Battle Creek.

[@boxsterman77]

Battle Creek? Not Philadelphia?

[@KennethBoyer-u1o]

B.S. Plenty of places with more history than Battle Creek. Take a look at the black side of town. You should have brought them up here. At least not so many.

[@phillipgarrow2297]

I'm from Michigan we have a nickname for battle creek I won't say it just use your imagination

[@tonyv8925]

Flaky City? lol

[@KennethBoyer-u1o]

Claras is to high price.