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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Mr. W. W. Tilton was also himself one of the early pioneers of the county, having come to the territory early in the second year of the white settlement of the county. He and Curtis Page, both of them car penters and joiners, came to Tecumseh as settlers in June, 1825, and were just of the class of men then most needed in the settlement. Soon after their arrival they were engaged in building a store for Mr. Pitman and early in the summer Mr. Tilton cut the first two small fields of wheat raised in Lenawee county. In the spring of 1826, he was engaged in the erection of a house for Mr. Evans on the northeast corner of Ottawa and Chicago streets, now the residence of P. R. Adams, Esq. Mr. Tilton was also one of the commisssioners to lay out the Ridge road, along the route of the natural ridge supposed to have been formerly the shore of lake Erie, running from the northeast corner of the county in the town of Macon to what was called Leroy, at the crossing of the river
Raisin, east of Adrian. It crossed the road from Monroe to Tecumseh at the point where the village of Ridgeway afterwards grew up.
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