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Maxinkuckee Agriculture Fair Booklet 1895

It was held at the 'Culver Park' which was part of the now Culver Military Academy.

In 1887 - Henry H. Culver decided to open a Chautauqua camp similar to the one operated by the Methodist Church in New York State. It was known as the Culver Park Assembly on the Aubeenaubee Bay. After two money-losing seasons, he closed it down after the 1890 summer season.

For a brief while the area was used as a fairground for Union Township. It opened in 1891 brought the Marshall Agricultural Fair to Culver lake shore on the north side of the Lake Maxinkuckee on the Aubeenaubee Bay. This was due to arrangements done by Henry H. Culver. The fair was discontinued in 1895 because but it too also proved not to be a profitable venture.

By By 1886 he owned more than 300 acres along the northen and eastern shore of Aubeebaubee Bay and in 1894 founding a permanent school on the property - using the Chautauqua assembly building's. The Culver Park Hotel was converted into a multi purpose building and the tabernacle into a gym and he sat aside at the beginning 40 acres for the Culver Academy on Aubeenaubee Bay. Today the Culver Military Academy embraces those 300 plus orginial acres and more had been accumulated by the Culver family in the ensuing years.

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