The Engleman Broom Manufacturing Company

Joseph Engleman moved his broom factory from Hamtramck, Michigan to New Baltimore in 1919. The Engleman Broom Company produced high quality brooms using lumber from Washington and southern Illinois broom corn. The company was one of the leading broom manufacturers in the United States.

The suspension of the Rapid Railway into New Baltimore threatened the importation of broom corn from the south. However, Engleman prevailed and continued to operate the company until his passing in 1930. His family continued to run the company; however, after suffering the great depression and finally the lack of steel due to it's demand for the military in World War II, the company closed it's doors in 1941

The Chesterfield Hotel (1902-1937)

The three story Chesterfield Hotel opened in 1902 and was a popular vacation destination for those travelling into town on the interurban railroad. 

One of the hotel's most famous guests, Henry Ford celebrated at the Chesterfield with a muscrat dinner after setting a new land speed record on the Anchor Bay ice in 1904.

Prior to the hotel, the Ben Bertha Corset and Hoop Skirt factory built in 1870 was demolished to make way for the construction of the Chesterfield.

The Great Depression brought on the demise of the hotel, which fell into disrepair and abandoned. It was demolished in 1937