LINDEN, MI – Its face shows its age.

Curled white paint tells a thousand stories without saying a word.

Groans come unabated, expressing wear and tear over the years.

Twists and leans can be found in its bones, but it still stands tall.

“It does creak and squeak,” said Pete Maas, president of the Linden Mills Historical Society and Museum. “It breathes.”

A crowd stood and sat outside the Linden Mills building on a sunny Tuesday morning, as efforts got underway to pump new life into the more 150-year-old building in the quaint Genesee County community.

“We are gathered here on the very ground where Linden’s rich history first took root,” Mayor Liz Armstrong told those assembled ahead of a ground-breaking ceremony for a renovation project that’s been years in the making. “Some of the e

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