Local & Insured
Augusta, MI: Tree Work by Fort Custer
Augusta is a Kalamazoo County village of about 860, established in 1832, fifteen minutes west of Battle Creek on M-96. Just south, on the east bank of the Kalamazoo River, the Fort Custer Recreation Area spreads over roughly 3,000 acres of oak barrens and oak-hickory forest with three lakes.
That is the timber Augusta grew up in: white and red oak and shagbark hickory older than the houses, black cherry and sugar maple behind them, cottonwood by the river. The Barn Theatre, Michigan's oldest professional summer stock house, sits at the edge of town, and the schools are shared with Galesburg.
