MAY 5 ISSUE ANSWERS (photo to right): I found this post card in the Romeo Historical Society Archives research library, available to everyone who would like to research local history. For the last three years I have been researching the local D.U.R. interurban that passed through Romeo and the Rochester areas. The post card says that this was the power plant for the Rochester, Romeo, Almont and Imlay City streetcars. Since these cars ran on 600 volts D.C. a power plant needed to be close at hand because D.C. voltage doesn’t travel as far as A.C. power does. This coal fired plant was located about where the Rochester post office is now located. It is gone now. There is a bridge for the Paint Creek River coming from Lake Orion area and passing under North Main in Rochester. Earlier there was a good sized mill pond suppling water power for the Rochester Knitting Mill which is currently the distillery/restaurant in Rochester. In 1946 a dam broke upstream from Rochester and destroyed the mill pond in Rochester. The area land was reconfigured, now the post office and library occupy it. This coal fired plant supplied 600 volts D.C. power to Romeo streetcars until they disappeared forever in 1934. Thanks to Larry Sobczak, editor of The Record for the Rochester information. Richard Beringer