Yale’s history is presented through scenes of its development from a mid-nineteenth-century lumber camp at Brockway Centre to a later city known for industry, farming, schools, churches, transportation, and community traditions. In 1889 Brockway Centre was officially named Yale. The railroad came to Brockway Centre in 1881, and Yale’s first school dated to 1853. The first church built in Brockway Centre was the Methodist Episcopal in 1871, and the second church built in Yale was the Methodist Protestant in 1872. Early figures remembered in street names included preacher Sam Bettes, lumberman Levi Morrill, road builder John D. Jones, and settler James S. Kennifick, who helped lay out the village of Brockway Centre. Civic improvements and milestones followed: the first wooden sidewalks were built in 1885, the first village election was held in 1885, a new jail was built in 1885, the first fire engine came in 1891, lights were installed in 1898, the first section of a cement walk was poured in 1903, and by 1903 every business and home had water supplied. The Yale Expositor, begun in 1882, endured as Yale’s first centennial business by 1987. Other remembered institutions and enterprises included the first brick school, the McColl House, the Yale Flax Mill, the Yale Creamery, the Yale Canning Factory, and Yale City Park, dedicated in 1947. Local life also featured bicycles as status symbols in 1889, three autos sighted in 1902, and the Annual Yale Bologna Festival, established in 1989. Travel and landscape were recalled in the log road on M-19, also called a corduroy road, and in stories of Charley Brockway driving his band from Yale to Brockway in twenty minutes, along with abundant late nineteenth-century wildlife. Yale Woolen Mills, called the heart and soul of Yale, operated from 1881 to 1963, turning local sheep fleece into yarn and clothes, making olive drab cloth for Army uniforms during World War One, manufacturing upholstery for major car companies, and producing World War Two Army uniforms with local aid. Farming remained central to Yale from early times onward, Yale honored those who served, and Yale High School athletics began on November 13, 1902, with its first contest at the Yale Fairgrounds on Sayles Road. A final view contrasted Main Street looking north in 1905 with looking south in 2005, marking one hundred years as Yale’s population grew from 900 to 2063.