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TERRITORIAL ROAD RECOLLECTIONS OF THE "OLD TERRITORIAL ROAD" AND ITS TAVERNS
Then about this time 'tis said that a ghost appeared in the place whose wild babblings frightened the place so . that it never grew much after it. People generally remember the "Dixborough ghost, " and the sensation it created for a time. 'Twas claimed that a person had been killed there, and this ghost appeared to tell of the murder. Where once stood the rustic village, a smiling farm spreads out its well fenced acres. There is a solitary building, half decayed, that marks the spot where Dixborough once stood. 'Tis the old tavern.
The next morning we resumed our journey. We now and then passed by a log cabin whose smoke gracefully floated off among the forest trees, and about which we saw small unfenced patches of wheat, amid the girdled trees, glowing in the sunshine like green inviting oases in the surrounding wilderness, We found more and better improvements as we neared Ann Arbor, some five miles from Dixborough. , In February, 1824, two emigrants with their families might have been seen wending their way through the forest of Washtenaw county, on sleighs drawl by oxen, till they came to an inviting spot on the river Huron, where they halted. Here they decided to tarry. Building an arbor composed of the branches of trees over their sleighs, they lodged therein until they could erec log cabins for permanent dwellings. These were Elisha W. Rumsey and John Allen and their wives, both of whose Christian names were Ann. Deacon
Loren Mills, now of Ann Arbor, met John Allen in Buffalo, N. Y., before he came to Michigan. Allen was over six feet in height, and a noble looking man.
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