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MI 150480

Choke Cherry Spring
It is a nice spring with a lot of choke cherry trees around it and that is why it was named the Choke Cherry Spring.
During the prohibition days in the nineteen twenties there was a moonshine still in operation at the spring just as there were at most or the springs that were in out or the way places. The spring was well known in those days as the Choke Cherry Spring.
About twenty five years ago, or less, A. B. Madere bought that section of land from the Southern Pacific Land Company and a few years later sold the property to George Pettee. Pettee has made a little ranch out of the place and has built his house a few hundred yards from the spring.
The name Choke Cherry Spring has just a.bout vanished from the scene.

Location
MS178, no. 574
Source

George Wright descriptions

Source Reference