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... MILLS . The Mission Mill - The Lincoln Mill - The Country Mills - The Nelson Mill - Later Saw Mills - Pine Lumber - Log Running - Four Periods of Lumbering - State Foresters Association - Flouring Mills - The Lyman Mill - The " Big Mill " - ...
... MILLS . The Mission Mill - The Lincoln Mill - The Country Mills - The Nelson Mill - Later Saw Mills - Pine Lumber - Log Running - Four Periods of Lumbering - State Foresters Association - Flouring Mills - The Lyman Mill - The " Big Mill " - ...
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... Mills Trial - Leading Admiralty Case - Celebrated Will Case - Old Time Lawyers - Federal Courts - Circuit Courts - Court Officers The Superior Court - Probate Court - Police Court - Jus- tice Courts - Members of the Bar . 688 715 ...
... Mills Trial - Leading Admiralty Case - Celebrated Will Case - Old Time Lawyers - Federal Courts - Circuit Courts - Court Officers The Superior Court - Probate Court - Police Court - Jus- tice Courts - Members of the Bar . 688 715 ...
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... Mill Creek , which joins Grand River near the West Michigan Fair Grounds and through whose valley the Pere Marquette Railroad passes out of the city north . On the east side in the northern part of the city the ground slopes gradually ...
... Mill Creek , which joins Grand River near the West Michigan Fair Grounds and through whose valley the Pere Marquette Railroad passes out of the city north . On the east side in the northern part of the city the ground slopes gradually ...
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... mill , was described by those who leveled it as a pile of fish - bones , ashes and shells , at least fifteen feet high , forty - five feet wide and one hundred feet long . About one - third of the mounds examined were clearly places of ...
... mill , was described by those who leveled it as a pile of fish - bones , ashes and shells , at least fifteen feet high , forty - five feet wide and one hundred feet long . About one - third of the mounds examined were clearly places of ...
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... stone chimney , and a small stable . " McCoy was last here in 1829 , when " prob- ably the nearest settlements were at Pontiac and Ann Arbor . " ་ The mill erected by government aid for this mission HISTORY OF GRAND RAPIDS . 79.
... stone chimney , and a small stable . " McCoy was last here in 1829 , when " prob- ably the nearest settlements were at Pontiac and Ann Arbor . " ་ The mill erected by government aid for this mission HISTORY OF GRAND RAPIDS . 79.
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Page 35 - Are they here — The dead of other days ? — and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise i In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer.
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Page 11 - ... one mile, to the southeast corner of said section; thence west along the south line of sections five and six of town six nor,th. range eleven west, two miles to the west line of said town six north, range eleven west; thence...
Page 35 - Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them; - a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
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