A Graves Situation

President Grover Cleveland stood on the second-floor veranda of Henry and Kate Graves’s mansion in Au Sable Forks and likely told the crowd, waving hand-sized American flags on the lawn below, that company towns like theirs were the pride of the nation.

That August day must have been one to remember—the elegant three-story Victorian as backdrop for the 22nd Commander in Chief and his new bride, 21-year-old Frances Folsom. This was a social stop on the couple’s journey to article, the president would fish and “transact the least possible amount of official business.”