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The University of Michigan established a branch campus, the Romeo Academy, in the area in the 1840, attracting more prosperous academics and professionals to the area. [2] A railroad was laid through the village in 1869, bringing increased trade. Planned growth has allowed the Romeo community to maintain a high degree of historic integrity. [2]
Map of the state of Michigan and the surrounding country. John Farmer (1798 – 1859, Detroit) was an American educator and cartographer.. Farmer was born February 9, 1798, in Halfmoon, New York.
Dunbar, Willis F. and George S. May. Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State, 3rd ed. (1995) the standard comprehensive textbook 1980 edition online; Farmer, Silas (1889). The history of Detroit and Michigan; or, The metropolis illustrated; a full record of territorial days in Michigan, and the annals of Wayne County. Farmer, Silas (1890).
The Landmark Inn State Historic Site is a historic inn in Castroville, Texas, United States. It serves the general public as both a state historic site and inn eight overnight rooms. Cesar and Hannah Monod, Swiss immigrants, arrived in Indianola, Texas in the 1830s [2] and settled in Castroville, Texas above a busy crossing on the Medina River in
An 1831 map of Michigan by David H. Burr, showing boundaries of early counties Wayne County, Michigan , originally part of the vast Northwest Territory, was eventually whittled down into its current size by the separation of several tracts: Monroe in 1817, Michilimackinac County (later called Mackinac ) and Macomb counties in 1818, St. Clair ...
Castroville Historic District is a United States historic district in Castroville, Texas. It includes the oldest parts of the city of Castroville and contains twelve designated contributing properties , including a Texas State Historic Site and numerous Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks .
2009 Michigan had the worst unemployment rate of any state, peaking at over 15%, due to the Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010 and the Great Recession. 2010 Michigan lost 0.6% of its population since the previous census, the first decline in its population recorded by the United States Census Bureau.
A detail from A New Map of Michigan with its Canals, Roads & Distances (1842) by Henry Schenck Tanner, showing Iosco County as Kanotin, the county's name from 1840 to 1843. [6] Several nearby counties are also shown with names that would later be changed.