Table of Contents

Introduction

Background History 1781 - 1850

Midland Under Treaty of 1807

The Forks in 1819

The Ox-Bow Incident

First White Settler Arrives

The Whitman Legend

Pleasant Valley Is Located

Founder of Buttonville Arrives

Lawsuits with Roscommon

Ashmun Elected Supervisor

Ingersoll the Second Township

Ashmun Sent to Legislature

The Egbert Incident Starts

Homer Becomes a Township

Old Days in Camp 16

Lumberjack Era Revived

Bombay on Wright and Ketchum

Thirty-Four Post Offices

John Larkin Named Treasurer

First Woman Elected

County Seat Is Chosen

Circuit Court Established

Larkin - Father of County

Dagle Surveyed "Circle"

Midland Gets First Plat

Mill Built as Red Keg

Hotel Moore at Camp 16

A Vanderbilt in History

Midland Home of Poet

Central  City Land Bubble

Fourteen Saloons Here

Crissey Starts "Republican"

Others in Local History

A New Era Opens

At the end of the writing is a section called "Errata" -last minute changes that could not be made due to printing deadlines.  This errata was applied to the best of my ability in this web publishing.