. Coldwater, Michigan pictorial city directory and year book. ts and wife, Joseph Hanchett and wife, ardAmelia Harrison. 1833 The name of the town was changed to Coldwater, from the IndianCbuck-sey-ya-bish or cold water. Branch County, as such, began its sep-arate existence, March L: it, had previously been attached to St. Joseph( ounty, First sheriff, Wm. McCarty; clerk, Wales Adams; treasurer andregister oi deeds, Beth Dunham; probate judge, Peter Martin. HISTORICAL 11 1834— The old red schoolhouse was erected at the corner of Pearl andHudson Streets. 1835— The village of Masonville was plat
. Coldwater, Michigan pictorial city directory and year book. ts and wife, Joseph Hanchett and wife, ardAmelia Harrison. 1833 The name of the town was changed to Coldwater, from the IndianCbuck-sey-ya-bish or cold water. Branch County, as such, began its sep-arate existence, March L: it, had previously been attached to St. Joseph( ounty, First sheriff, Wm. McCarty; clerk, Wales Adams; treasurer andregister oi deeds, Beth Dunham; probate judge, Peter Martin. HISTORICAL 11 1834— The old red schoolhouse was erected at the corner of Pearl andHudson Streets. 1835— The village of Masonville was platted on the east bank of the Cold-water River and aspired to be the county seat again. Here Roland Root andWabskokee Marsh bartered with the Indians. Coldwater Baptist Church or-ganized with sixteen members. 1836— Methodists built a church. 1837— The village was incorporated; population of entire township, County had 4,016 people, about as many as the entire state 23 yearsearlier. Francis Smith, Thos. Daugherty and Wm. B. Sprague erected a. COLDWATER IN 1830 This rude structur e, built by Hugh Campbell on the old Indian trail about where the MasonicTemple now stands, was followed, a year or two later, by a similar one erected by JosephHanchett on what is now North Monroe Street, opposite the present City Directory office. mill on the present site of the A mill; it was burned in 1858 and rebuilt in1859. Dr. I. P. Alger at this time found 33 taverns between Quincy and Stur-gis, indicating the tremendous westward emigration through here at that terrible year for malarial troubles: one historian declares that 32 out of140 people of the little village died that fall. The cause was said to be theClay Street milldam, built in 1832. A body of angry citizens destroyed 18, Coldwaters first newspaper, the Observer, was issued. It becamethe News, then the Democrat, whose existence ended when as the outcome of arow among the owners the office was pied. Presb
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