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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
The United States land-office for the sale of government land in Lenawee county was opened at Monroe in 1823. The district included the counties of Monroe and Lenawee, and the south tier of surveyed towns in Washtenaw and in part of Jackson county. The first land taken up in Lenawee county was entered by Austin E. Wing in March, 1824, to wit: The west half of northwest quarter, section twenty-seven, the east half of northeast quarter, section twenty-eight, and the west half of northeast quarter, section thirty-four, town five south, range four east. These were entered by him in advance of the arrival of Messrs. Evans, Brown, and others, who were coming on in the spring of that year, in order to secure for himself and partners the control of the water power of the Raisin at the points where the Brownville dam and race and the Globe mill-pond now are. The men of the party arrived in May of that year, coming in by the Chicago trail from Detroit, following it by way of Saline until they struck the Raisin north of where the village of Clinton now is, and thence going south to a stream now known as Evans creek, which they followed to where it emptied into the Raisin.
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