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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
"Does thee really think, Joseph, that thee has a better place at Tecumseh for the county seat than we have at Adrian "No," said the General, " but we have a much better water power, and will keep the county seat also if we can." But the geographical position • of Adrian, being so much nearer the centre of the county, and the then near completion of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad from Toledo to Adrian, built largely by means of capital furnished by Adrian and vicinity, decided the question in favor of Adrian; and the old feeling of rivalry between the two places has long since ceased to exist, or to show any evidence of even being much remembered.
The removal of the seat of justice of the county from Tecumseh to Adrian was provided for by an act of the first state legislature, approved March 21,1836, to take effect from and after the first Monday of November, 1838. The location was to be made upon lands previously conveyed to the county by Addison J. Comstock, or upon such other lands as might be conveyed for that purpose, and accepted by the board of supervisors.
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