This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...and shouldered their calamities for a two-mile walk to Waterloo-st., where they found wagons in which to continue their journey to the Holland colony. Through this avenue came many of our statesmen to attend the political meetings of the day. They were met and escorted down town by hundreds of mounted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...and shouldered their calamities for a two-mile walk to Waterloo-st., where they found wagons in which to continue their journey to the Holland colony. Through this avenue came many of our statesmen to attend the political meetings of the day. They were met and escorted down town by hundreds of mounted men, lines of carriages and bands of music, sometimes by torchlight processions. James G. Blaine received as great an ovation as any one I now recall. When the last soldiers came home in 1865 they were met at the old depot by all the town. There was no order to the reception. The mothers, sisters and sweethearts clung to boy and uniform and laughed and cried by turn all the length of the two-mile trail. Above all the hubbub and joy of that march I can still hear the voice of my little brother demanding that I go and give old John Winters, an English shoemaker, a licking for being disloyal. But I had had all the fighting I wanted. Fifty years ago a ten-thousand-dollar depot, with a canary bird or two by way of variety of animal life at the lunch counter, would have put the north end on the map, but the order has been reversed. The homes, factories and business traveled out to and far beyond the shoddy little structure dignified for so many years by the name, Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee depot. West Bridge Street, 1858 to 1891 West Bridge-st. from the earliest days was an important highway In the spring of 1858 unusually high water in the river, backing up through the lowlands, flooded the street from Turner to Stocking. I poled my large canoe for the accommodation of the public nearly five blocks, fare two cents. There being no competition as much as one dollar was earned some days. At that time there were few buildings on the street....
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