Hopkins Allegan County Michigan Historic Horse Buggy Real Photo Postcard

Hopkins, Michigan, a village nestled in Allegan County, represents the typical commercial hub of many early 20th-century American small towns. Water Street, as captured in this image, served as a bustling main thoroughfare, lined with local businesses housed in brick and clapboard storefronts. The scene, dominated by numerous horse-drawn buggies, indicates a period roughly between the late 1890s and the 1910s, prior to the widespread adoption of automobiles, when equine transport was central to daily life and commerce.