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HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS CONNECTED WITH WYANDOTTE AND
VICINITY BY DR. E. P. CHRISTIAN
The fact of the owners and stockholders in its manufacturing establishments generally being non-residents of Wyandotte has been a great drawback to its prosperity and its advance in wealth with all that that implies, because not the profits but only what has been paid out for labor has remained in the place, and though from this and other causes the expectations of its founders and hopes of its early settlers have not been altogether fulfilled, yet it is almost certain that its natural advantages must draw other enterprises until in the not distant future it will yet become an important manufacturing center.
During the war of the rebellion, Wyandotte, in common with all towns built up by iron manufactories, participated in the activity imparted particularly to that branch of manufacturing, and received an impulse which gave it a rapid and continuous growth for a number of years succeeding the close of the war. Indeed, it continued until the depression of 1873, which was, as. I suppose, but the natural reaction from the unnatural activity of a long period of successful prosecution of almost all manufacturing enterprises. During the war, though the place was not noted for having sent out many with epaulettes or shoulder straps, yet more returned with them. Her youth, more especially, were represented in the ranks, and she responded promptly and fully to all requirements for her quota, and supplied volunteers to every branch of the service by land and water, and enriched southern battle fields with the blood of some of the most promising and best beloved of her sons. They were among the rough riders of Sheridan, and marched through Georgia with Sherman, as they were also in all the campaigns in Virginia.
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