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INCIDENTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SAGINAW VALLEY BY JUDGE ALBERT MILLER
The land appropriation was to be expended under the supervision of the late A. N. Hart, as special commissioner. Up to 1849 all the appropriations for a wagon road had been expended on the line adopted for the railroad. That year the legislature passed an act appointing Lewis S. Tyler of Genesee county, Albert Miller, then of Saginaw county, and Henry Newberry of Shiawassee county, commissioners to relocate the line of road between the villages of Flint and Corunna, and the special commissioner was directed to expend the appropriation on the line that they should adopt.
The commissioners had three lines to choose from; the Southern passing through what was known as the Miller settlement, the Central passing through the Lyon settlement, and the Northern passing through the village of Flushing. A road had been opened on each of the first mentioned lines, and the country partially settled all the way between Flint and Corunna. On the Northern, line a good road had been made from Flint to Flushing, and the country well settled, but after passing one mile west from Flint river at Flushing they came to a tract of heavy timbered land containing a whole township and extending almost to Corunna, that had never been penetrated by a settler. A large portion of the tract was internal improvement land and had been selected to pay for the labor in opening the road that the commissioners were to locate. The act authorized the commissioners to take.
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