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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Instead of wild and solitarv woods and timbered openings, he now found the whole route covered'. by improved and highly cultivated farms, with not only comfortable houses, barns, etc., but in many cases large and elegant frame and brick dwellings; where, in 1826, the only evidences of human occupancy were a few scattered Indian trails, and where the only travel by white persons had been by the land surveying parties, or perhaps an occasional India trader, he now found every mile or so well traveled roads, intersperse every few miles with school houses and churches, and all the other evi dences of a thickly settled, rich and prosperous community. On passim between Round and Devil's lakes, instead of the open and apparently unoccupied "waste of waters" which he found in 1826, he now found on one of them some fifty pleasure boats, and on the adjoining shore a group of picnic tables long enough to accommodate at a time five hundred more people, and a ball-room large enough for fifty or more couples once. And all this change and much more was the result of improve ments made not only since 1826, but in reality since 1833, when the firs white settlements were made in or near Hudson, or in the Bean Creek valley.
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