CSPAN3 Perry Hannah The Growth Of Traverse City July 14, 2024
95 of the settlement was in the fur industry, missionaries to the indians, logging industries, etc. After 1863, the United States government, Abraham Lincoln decided to give away all their , land. After that, any citizen or future citizen of the United States could have 160 acres of land to use, as long as they would live on it and improve it for five years. That created a monumental change to this area, to all of michigan, and to much of the country. When you look at the homesteaders and start finding recorded history of how they got here, a fair percentage of them, 30 or 40 , did come over l...