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INCIDENTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SAGINAW VALLEY BY JUDGE ALBERT MILLER
Passing up the river, all the land on the west side from the mouth of the Kawkawlin to Willow Island, above Bachelor's mill, was included in the Chippewa reservation of 40, 000 acres; large numbers of the tribe were residing in the vicinity and no prospect of their claim being extinguished in the near future. At the lower end of Carrollton there had been a blockhouse built of material removed from the fort at Saginaw and was occupied by Seymour Ensign and his family; it was on the Mosely farm, near where the old Indian apple trees grow.
From that point there was nothing to be seen from the river till you arrived at the old Campau house at the north end of Saginaw City, which was a large two story block house sided up on the outside and well finished inside, built by Joseph Campau of Detroit, at the time the troops were stationed at Saginaw in 1822; there were two or three small blockhouses in the immediate vicinity and nothing more till the fort was reached, where there were four or five blockhouses that had been built for officers' residences, all of which were occupied, some by two or three families. At the foot of Mackinaw street there were two frame buildings, the old red store and the "mess" house built by Messrs. G. D. & E. S. Williams and used in their connection with the trade of the American Fur Company. Back on the corner of Mackinaw and Washington streets the Messrs. G. D. & E. S. Williams each had a line frame residence, and opposite Green Point, two miles above, the writer and Judge Jewett each had a frame house; those mentioned constituted all the frame buildings and all the residences that stood near the Saginaw river at the end of the year 1835.
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