Editing Adrian, Michigan (section)

=== Late 1800s and 1900s ===
[[File:Erie and Kalamazoo Banknote 1853.jpg|thumb|left|The Erie & Kalamazoo Rail Road Bank was chartered by the Territory of Michigan and opened in the village of Adrian in 1835.<ref name = "Laws of Michigan">{{Cite book | title = Laws of the territory of Michigan |volume= 3 | publisher = W. S. George & Co. | year = 1874 | location = Lansing, Michigan | pages = 1392–1397 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3AGcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1392}}</ref>]]

The only remaining piece of the [[Bank of Pennsylvania]]— one of the stone pillars — was moved to Adrian, Michigan and erected as the Civil War Memorial in commemoration of those in Adrian who died in the American Civil War.

In the late 19th century through early 20th century Adrian was known as the "fence capital of the world," when [[J. Wallace Page]] invented the first successful wire fence. Adrian became known worldwide as a fencing manufacturing hub and its fences were shipped as far as New York, Berlin, Asia, and Africa. The company sponsored the highly successful [[Page Fence Giants]] black baseball team.

Adrian was an early auto manufacturing hub.  One of the first motor vehicles, the [[Lion (automobile)|Lion]] automobile, was created in Adrian. Between 1900 and 1912, three major car models were manufactured in Adrian; in addition to the Lion the Murry Motor Car and [[Lenawee (car)|Lenawee]] Car were made by the Church Manufacturing Company in Adrian. The area was poised to be a world center until bad financial decisions at Church Manufacturing Company and a 1912 plant fire at Lion Automobile led to the demise of both companies.

Throughout the 1900s Adrian continued to grow, doubling in size, but as a slower rate than Michigan as a whole (which tripled in size).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_|title = Population in the U.S. - Google Public Data Explorer}}</ref>