![]() ![]() In order to show the progress and development of Alpena county, it will be necessary to go back to the earliest days of its settlement by white people, and to show the circumstances, conditions and influences by which they were surrounded at the time of such settlement, as these have much to do with their future prosperity and happiness, and determines in no small degree the character of their popular institutions.Īnd hence this work would be incomplete without referring to the History of the State of Michigan-at the time and since its admission into the Sisterhood of States.Īn act was passed by Congress, on the loth day of June, 1836, for the admission of Michigan as one of the States of the Union but with the then humiliating condition, that it would relinquish its claim to the southern boundary, (which was a narrow strip of land extending from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie, and claimed by Indiana and Ohio,) and accept instead thereof, the Upper Peninsula, which was then an unexplored region, and considered of no probable value. ![]()
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