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

[page 95]

CHAPTER IV
TIMBER INDUSTRIES, EARLY AGRICULTURE
LUMBER AND SHINGLES

                    FIRST SETTLERS IN THE COUNTY
                    
      The first settlers in the county were JOHN ALLEN,
  ALANSON and JOHN DAGGETT in the spring of 1837 at Rock
  Falls, just below Sand Beach.  They had a saw mill there.
  The first school was opened in Port Austin with EMMA
  
  
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  SMITH as teacher.  As the county began to be settled
  school districts were organized, log school houses built
  and a three month term of school secured in the winter.
  In the earliest times the teacher boarded around.  Then
  the terms lengthened to five months.  Finally some of
  the more progressive districts had a summer term of
  three months also.  The studies generally taught were
  the three R's, reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic and a little
  grammar sprinkled in.  No language lessons in those
  primitive times.
  
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