Riverview’s Happy 100th Anniversary Celebration The community is invited to share in the 100th anniversary of Riverview during a special celebration that is being planned for September. The event honors the founding of the Village of Riverview in April 1923 all the way up to the present-day City of Riverview. Current and former residents and employees are invited to attend. Most of the free family-friendly activities will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, September 23, in and around the community center in Young Patriots Park: • A Riverview meet and greet will be a gathering place for past and present Riverview teachers, elected officials and other The First School in Riverview • Lower Mud First grade class, October 17, 1901 notable persons from the community, along with local faithful interested in interacting with them. Longtime Riverview historian Street School 1890’s Gerald N. Perry will be on hand to sell and autograph special 100th anniversary commemorative copies of his book Riverview Michigan – From its origin to the 1970s. • Riverview’s own Bob Guiney, who earned fame on the TV show “The Bachelor,” will be in town to serve as host. Famed football coach Lloyd Carr and other Riverview personalities have been invited to attend. • Special presentations will take place to the oldest Riverview resident, longest married Riverview couple, person with the oldest Riverview tree and oldest known house. • There will be a chili cook-off, classic car show, dog contest, Riverview trivia contest and, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., oldtime games for children. Entrants in the car show will receive dashboard plaques. Prizes will be awarded to contest winners. • There will be ragtime/Dixieland music (noon to 2 p.m.), a touch-a-truck featuring city vehicles, a tug of war between police officers and firefighters and face painting by Riverview-based Carey Ann’s Clown Caravan. • Historical photos will be on display. In fact, organizers are inviting Greetings and welcome to the Riverview’s existence, we trust that individuals to bring their Riverview Review throwback you will enjoy the featured images, own pictures to display. newspaper! The Review served as the which are sure to rekindle cherished • A special 2024 local newspaper during the late 50s memories of days gone by. We hope calendar will be on sale and early 60s. you enjoy the articles and images for for $20. The calendar This special edition of the our 100th Anniversary Celebration. will feature special Riverview Review has been created It is indeed a great honor to serve photos from Riverview’s to pay tribute to that historic as only the 7th Mayor of Riverview history with proceeds publication and to revisit signifi cant and be a part of this distinguished going to help pay the events from our illustrious 100-year lineage of leaders. costs associated with the March 26, 1959 history. anniversary celebration. front page of the – Mayor Andrew M Swift Riverview Review As we commemorate a century of SEE 100 PAGE 2 Sam Vreeland was elected first village president with a population of 704. “One of the first things they did after incorporating was vote to bring water to the area,” said Gerald Perry, a retired Department of Public Works director and the unofficial historian of the city. That same year, a change was also made to the volunteer Fire Department. For the first time, one man, on a rotating basis, was on duty at all times. Over time, the number of people on duty gradually increased, but that change created the permanent part-time department, which still exists today.
1923 Ballot
Riverview Fire Department
The four pictures here show how time has marched on in Riverview. The two top pictures show the old and the new public offices of the community and the bottom pictures show the ground breaking for what is now the west part of the Penn Salt Chemical Co. and an aireal view of the Penn Salt as it is today. [As published in 1959]
1934, Cyril Edward Schley at Sibley and Grange C. Howard Crane architects