. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . eighty feet high. Thebuilding cost $4070, and the bell (weight 1000 pounds),organ, and carpet were purchased at an expense of church is located in the northern portion of the village, and the Congregational edifice in the southern, bothon the east side of the street. The Methodists have a goodmembership. BIG TREE. The largest tree in Eaton County, and the largest knownin the State, stood formerly in the township of Kalamo,north of the farm of Gridley, about twenty rodswest of the Vermontville and Bellevue road. It was agiganti
. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . eighty feet high. Thebuilding cost $4070, and the bell (weight 1000 pounds),organ, and carpet were purchased at an expense of church is located in the northern portion of the village, and the Congregational edifice in the southern, bothon the east side of the street. The Methodists have a goodmembership. BIG TREE. The largest tree in Eaton County, and the largest knownin the State, stood formerly in the township of Kalamo,north of the farm of Gridley, about twenty rodswest of the Vermontville and Bellevue road. It was agigantic sycamore, hollow from bottom to top, and betweensixteen and seventeen feet in diameter inside of the hol-low. A door was cut through into the hollow, and it issaid that horses measuring sixteen hands high had beenridden into it and turned around. The tree was finally cutdown for the purpose of taking a section of it to Marshall,to be used as a grocery, but it was found the labor ofmoving it would be too great. KALAMO. 491 BIOGEAPHIOAL
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