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INCIDENTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SAGINAW VALLEY BY JUDGE ALBERT MILLER
About that time plank roads came in vogue and our volumes of session laws were annually filled with plank road charters, the franchises of- which extended over all the settled portions of the State. A project was on foot to build a plank road from Corunna and Owosso to the forks of Bad river and use that river and the Shiawassee below its junction with the same, for th, e transportation of passengers and freight in small steamboats to deep water navigation on the Saginaw. The steamboat Buena Vista had been built at East Saginaw after
shoal waters of the upper Ohio. It was a long, uncouth looking thing, having a large stern wheel with two engines placed in the stern and the boilers at the bow of the boat, the steam being conveyed from the boilers to the engine in cast iron pipes placed under the hurricane deck.
In the summer of 1849, while operating my steam saw mill at Portsmouth, I was invited to join an excursion that was to start from Saginaw the next Saturday morning with a delegation from Shiawassee county that would come to explore the route for the plank road and test the feasibility of the river navigation. I was on hand at the boat in due sea-son, where I found ready for the day's excursion almost the whole of the adult male population of Saginaw, with the delegation from Shiawassee county, which consisted of Governor Andrew Parsons, of Corunna, and Judge Amos Gould, of Owosso.
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