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1831: Boundaries of Allegan County formed, with the state’s baseline serving as the southern border of the county.
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Land surveyor and future Michigan Senator, Lucius Lyons surveys land in Michigan Territory, including what will become Otsego. Lyons wrote, "The timber is beech, sugar, maple, oak, ash, lynn, black walnut, with ironwood,..Everything considered, this township may well be designated first rate."
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On the southwest corner of Farmer and Allegan Streets, this popular stage coach stop, holstery, and hotel in western Michigan would later be torn down in 1898.
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Otsego Union reports that the oldest building in Otsego, Otesgo Hall built in 1837 by Samuel Foster, is scheduled to be torn down.
