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The Michigan Air Line Railroad passes through the center of the town. At Clarendon Center there is a post office, a store and a few shops. The large and varied productions of this town are marketed chiefly at Homer. The timber is of a better ¦quality and kind than is found in the adjoining towns, and is manufactured into lumber at their own mills. The class of farm buildings attests the taste and ability of the farmers. Religion and education, fostered at the beginning, is now established upon an imperishable basis. In several places along the St. Joseph River are marked evidences of Indian occupancy.
ECKFORD.
The early records of the town of Eckford are lost, i. e., the record of town elections, but from the books of the highway commissioner, which are extant, all important matters connected with the settlement of the town can be ascertained.
Oshea Wilder entered eighty acres of land in this town in 1831. In 1832 Oshea Wilder, E. S. Rogers, Chas. K. Palmer and others entered 1,705 acres. The land is rolling, in many places stony, but generally productive. Its chief products are wheat, wool and pork. Marshall is the principal market town. There are three organized churches, three church edifices, one town house, one settled minister, one saw-mill, school-houses, no graded school. The number of school houses, the value thereof, and the number of children between five and twenty years of age, though quite desirable, were not ascertained.
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