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Michigan Jackson
In the spring the Messrs. Ford commenced the building of the dam and of the mill on the east side of Grand river, then and long after known as " Ford's flouring mill." The building of this mill was driven with remarkable rapidity, considering its size and the obstacles to be overcome in the then new state of the country, and the difficulties attending the transportation of the materials. The mill was completed and running the same fall, and at once made Jackson the centre of business for
the county.
The Fords manifested their faith in the growth of Jacksonburgh, and gave a further evidence of their enterprise by surveying and platting " Ford's extension," the plat of which was recorded February 5th, 1836. They still further extended the area of the ground laid out in village lots, and placed upon the market by laying out " Ford's western addition," the plat of which was filed for record March 13,1836. The action of the Fords in building the mill, laying out the town lots and commencing to build thereon, caused the east side of the river at once to assume an importance which had not hitherto attached to it, and notwithstanding the unfavorable nature of the ground, which was low, swampy and heavily timbered, with a very thick undergrowth, buildings and improvements soon changed the face of that
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