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Michigan Jackson Mi.
IRPROVEMENTS, CROPS, SUPPLIES.
From twenty to thirty buildings were erected in the summer and fall of 1830, and settlements were made in the vicinity in several directions. Farms were beginning to be opened up and cultivated. Some corn and other crops were raised, so that in the winter of 1830-31 the pioneers had not to depend entirely upon having the means of livelihood brought
from abroad.
The first land cultivated in the county was by the Blackmans, on their purchase on the old Indian corn-field lying between Blackman creek and Ganson street. In the fall there were several fields sown to
winter wheat.
Our hardy settlers were industriously working to provide for their future wants, and particularly to save themselves from the long and fatiguing trips they were now obliged to make to Washtenaw county for their seed and bread. The little colonies in Jackson county could get no seed wheat or other grain at a less distance than Mill Creek, and no wheat or other grain ground nearer than the mills on the same stream at what is now Dexter.
Jackson
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