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PIONEER HISTORY OF HURON COUNTY, MICHIGAN
by Florence McKinnon Gwinn
Huron County Pioneer & Historical Society, 1922

[page 100]

CHAPTER IV
MARVELOUS CHANGES

      The changes that have taken place in the last half
  century are marvelous.  To call this region wild in that
  early period is to state the fact tamely.  Wild beasts
  roamed the forests and the thick growth of trees shut
  out the sight of sky except in the little clearings
  around the primitive homes.  With pleasure and satis-
  faction we can look back to scenes of pioneer life and
  contrast them with the present.  As these men laid the
  foundations, firm and deep, so must their sons and daugh-
  ters carry on and build them up to their final consuma-
  tion of glory and usefulness.  Some one has said that
  "the pathway they carved out has become the highway
  upon which the world is traveling, bearing in its train
  the civilization of the twentieth century, laden with the
  love of liberty and freedom."  In the late war the boys of
  Huron county did their part in securing freedom not
  only for this country but for the world.  The early pio-
  neers were conquerors not only of men but of nature
  itself.  Through persistent and courageous efforts they
  subdued the wilderness and made the comforts of civil-
  ization possible for the people of today.
  
           (MRS.) FLORENCE McKINNON GWINN,
                             Pigeon, Michigan
                             
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