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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
The present township of Palmyra remained a part of Blissfield until 1834, but began to be settled along the river as early as 1826. The first saw mill in Palmyra was built in 1834; and a large flouring mill with four run of stones was built in 1836-7, costing about $60,000, mostly furnished by Toledo capitalists. It was burned in 1870, and has not been rebuilt. George Crane was the first supervisor of the town when organized; a man of wealth and enterprise, and who aided very material in means to build the railroad from Toledo to Adrian, which ran through, the township and village, and through some of his own lands—Crane's hill, so called, being the first grade outside of Toledo to try the powers of the locomotives, when drawing heavy trains of cars. Judge A. R. Tiffany was also one of the prominent early settlers of the township, and was chosen as one of the eight delegates from the county to the constitutional convention of 1835, and was also elected to that of 1850, and was a mem ber of the house of representatives in 1855-6; he was prosecuting attorney of the county in 1834-5; judge of probate for eight years, from 1836 to 1844; and was the author of two standard works on justice of the peace practice, and of one on criminal law, etc. He died in Palmyra, January 14, 1868.
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