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Michigan OAKLAND COUNTY
Here are churches and there are school houses filled with apt and eager scholars; cottage homes, where the arts and refinements of civilization are known and appreciated, where industrious, enterprising men and noble, true-hearted women bear life's burdens and share its joys together. Is it an illusion? Look again: You may see the citizens of the town gathered to commemorate the deeds of their pioneers; they glance proudly back and joyfully forward. And why should they not? They stand shoulder to shoulder with twenty-five townships forming a county of supassing beauty, over which statistics have written in respect to agricultural production, the sixth county in the Union, and, if you equalize the acres, but the fourth.
They are citizens of a state whose resources and development have made it a marvel in this marvellous era, and whose benign government enfolds them in the arms of its love; while over all, embracing all, protecting all, floats the banner of a great and free republic.
Oakland Co. Michigan
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