Less than a mile to the east of
the Raisinville Grange Hall,
site of many Heiden Reunions is the tiny community known as Grape. It
was at one time a lumber mill community with felled trees being
floated down the River Raisin and into an artificial little
stream into the mill. Later it was noted primarily for a single
general purpose store.
Grape
store was only about a 10 minute journey
on a Farmall H tractor for those of us living at
8420 Dixon Road. My dad,
Art Heiden would sometimes have
me drive over and pick him up a pack
of Winston cigarettes for 35 cents and we could get a 10 oz.
bottle of Pepsi for 10 cents.
That's me and my brother, Ron Heiden in a much later picture sitting on the old Farmall
from what used to be International Harvester Company. There
used to be a gas pump in front of the store where we could
fill up the tractor if needed.
