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The first settlements made in Plymouth
were in 1841, by David Douglass, Stephen C. Douglass, and Samuel
Colby. These gentlement came from Michigan with their families,
and located in this township on the 31st day of May, in the year
above mentioned. There is perhaps as little waste land in this
as in any other township in the county, even the lowest land
is drained and under a good state of cultivation. The town is
perhaps as well adapted to the raising of wheat as in any other
in the county, the surface being somewhat rolling and rich; it
is well supplied with fine groves of timber, and as well watered
with durable streams as any section in the county; there is quite
a number of very fine ever-living springs of water. The meadows
are extensive, and yield an unlimited amount of the best of native
grass for stock. There are two railroad lines passing through
the town, crossing at Hanover Station, on Bass Creek; at this
place there is a very good water-power,--used at present to propel
a flouring-mill. The inhabitants of the town are mostly American,
with quite a number of Norwegians, who are enterprising farmers. |