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Michigan Jackson Mi.
Three blocks of stores, (the best in the city), now stand on the front of three-fourths of what was the public square of the village of Jacksonburgh.
COUNTY SEAT.
Oliver Whitmore, Bethuel Farrand and Jonathan F. Stratton were appointed commissioners " to designate the county seat of the county of Jackson." In their report, made on the 30th of March, 1830, they say: " A territorial road, called the St. Joseph's road, was last winter laid directly through the heart of the peninsula. Where this road crosses the Grand river, about seventy miles west of Detroit, a flourishing village is commenced, and the proprietors are erecting mills. The road was opened last winter as far west as Grand river, by a company of citizens of Ann Arbor, who, together with the commissioners, gave the village the name of Jacksonburgh. We speak confidently when we say, the state capital will be at Jacksonburgh.
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