History of Calhoun County Michigan a Narrative Account of Its Historical Prog
History of Calhoun County Michigan a Narrative Account of Its Historical Prog
Washington Gardner
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The railroad, then owned and constructed by the state, had reached Jackson in 1841 At that date negotiations were started for the grading and l)ridging of the road from Jackson to JIarshall, ])ut the road was not completed to this point till August, 1844. On the 10th day of that month, amidst great excitement, the firat train came in to town. ^Ir. John Bean remembers the occasion distinctly. The conductor of the first passenger train was Zenas Tillotson, who, upon the advent of the railroad, di...scontinued his stage line. It 1848 the first telegraph office was established by 1lie Erie and Michigan Telegraph Company. The famous old frame school house, so long the seat of intellectual life, scholastic, theological and . Iudicial, having served as schoolhouse. Church and court house, was deemed to have outlived its usefulness, and 'a new school house decided upon. The question of location was settled liy i»laciiii; it exactly between the school districts, which had been coiii- hincd. Even tliougli that position was in the midst of the marshiest marsh possible.
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