Table of Contents
Introduction
Background History 1781 -
1850
Midland Under Treaty of
1807
The Forks in 1819
The Ox-Bow Incident
First White Settler
Arrives
The Whitman Legend
Pleasant Valley Is
Located
Founder of Buttonville
Arrives
Lawsuits with Roscommon
Ashmun Elected Supervisor
Ingersoll the Second
Township
Ashmun Sent to
Legislature
The Egbert Incident
Starts
Homer Becomes a Township
Old Days in Camp 16
Lumberjack Era Revived
Bombay on Wright and
Ketchum
Thirty-Four Post Offices
John Larkin Named
Treasurer
First Woman Elected
County Seat Is Chosen
Circuit Court Established
Larkin - Father of County
Dagle Surveyed "Circle"
Midland Gets First Plat
Mill Built as Red Keg
Hotel Moore at Camp 16
A Vanderbilt in History
Midland Home of Poet
Central City Land
Bubble
Fourteen Saloons Here
Crissey Starts
"Republican"
Others in Local History
A New Era Opens
At the end of the writing is a section
called "Errata" -last minute changes that could not be made due to
printing deadlines. This errata was applied to the best of my
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