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	Prairie Ronde Township, Michigan
		Prairie Ronde Township is a township located in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
		In the township the population is spread out with 32.2% under the age of 18, 4.1% from 18 to 24, 32.1% from 25 to 44, 25.5% from 45 to 64, and 6.1% who are 65 years of age or older.
		The median income for a household in the township is $65,385, and the median income for a family is $67,458.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Prairie_Ronde_Township,_Michigan.html (339 words)

	The History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan :: The Southwest Michigan Directory
		In the fall of 1828, at the age of fifty-seven, he led an entourage of men, women, children, pigs and sheep to Prairie Ronde, a 14,000-acre Michigan grassland.
		Prairie Ronde was the largest of eight prairies whose agricultural potential attracted both pioneers and speculators to Kalamazoo.
		In 1833 the Michigan Territorial Legislature chartered the Baptist-sponsored Michigan and Huron Institute "to promote the knowledge of all those branches of education usually taught in academies and collegiate institutions." The institute opened in Kalamazoo in 1836.
	www.swmidirectory.org /History_of_Kalamazoo_County.html (2198 words)

	Early Impressions of Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The prairie surface was often described as being the highest ground in the vicinity.
		As soon as the prairie land in the county was all taken, settlement began in those townships dominated by oak openings.
		That the occupation of the county spread from the prairies into the oak openings was recognized by an early historian who reported that in Oshtemo Township by 1836, the settlements were being "pushed" into the oak openings west of Grand Prairie.
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/settle.html (1405 words)

	Prairie Ronde Township, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prairie Ronde Township is a township in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
		Prairie Ronde is the birthplace of the women's suffragist Olympia Brown.
		The racial makeup of the township was 97.84% White, 0.29% African American, 0.38% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.19% from other races, and 1.01% from two or more races.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prairie_Ronde_Township,_Michigan (379 words)

	Prairie Ronde Township (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As of August 15th, the Prairie Ronde Township Board has voted to suspend contributions to the Household Hazardous Waste Program, for the remainder of this fiscal year.
		Prairie Ronde is blessed with what seems like endless stretches of prairie often highlighted by vast stands of seed corn.
		Township Board Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month at 7:00 p.m.
	www.prairierondetwp.net (211 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Wisconsin
		It is bounded on the east by Lake Michigan, on the north by the upper Peninsula of the State of Michigan and by Lake Superior, on the west by Minnesota and St. Croix Rivers, and on the south by Illinois.
		Its surface is rolling in character, and it forms, with the upper Peninsula of Michigan, a sort of plateau between the lakes and rivers which bound it on the east, north, and west.
		Hence Father Hennepin, a Recollect friar, with two companions explored the Upper Mississippi and were taken prisoners by the Sioux, ultimately to be rescued, however, by Duluth, who with them crossed by the route of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers to De Pere, and in 1683 defended that mission against an attack by the Iroquois.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15661b.htm (4952 words)

	Kalamazoo County Chronology of Local Government
		Townships in Kalamazoo County (except Portage which is an incorporated city encompassing the entire former township).
		The first township meeting was held at the house of Abraham J. Shaver in what is now Prairie Ronde Township.
		On this date also, PRAIRIE RONDE township was set off from Brady.
	www.rootsweb.com /~mikalama/historychronology.htm (222 words)

	Aboard the Underground Railroad-- Dr. Nathan Thomas House
		Thomas wrote, "His antislavery views were so well known, that, while he was a bachelor boarding at the hotel, fugitives from slavery had called on him for assistance and protection." Pamela Brown Thomas estimated that between 1840 and 1860 she and her husband helped between 1,000 to 1,500 fugitive slaves escape into freedom.
		In 1837, he was one of 400 residents in Prairie Ronde and Brady (now Schoolcraft) townships who petitioned Congress in opposition to the annexation of Texas because of the territory's support of slavery.
		A key participant in an 1854 antislavery convention in Jackson, Michigan, Dr. Thomas was a nominating committee member of the newly-formed Michigan Republican party.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/underground/mi1.htm (451 words)

	Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		-- The segment of the main stem from the headwaters in township 12 south, range 3 west, Kateel River meridian extending downstream approximately 65 miles to the western boundary of township 18 south, range 8 west; to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior.
		-- The 15-mile segment from the head of River Spring in the southwest quarter of section 15, township 35 south, range 16 east, to the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 11, township 35 south, range 15 east, as a scenic river; to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.
		(A) The twenty and five-tenths-mile segment from the west boundary of section 3, township 56 north, range 106 west at the Crandall Creek Bridge downstream to the north boundary of section 13, township 56 north, range 104 west at Clarks Fork Canyon; to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
	www.nps.gov /rivers/wsract.html (9264 words)

	Tribes of Michigan
		Since the Sauk are known to have lived in Michigan at an early period, it is probable that the Foxes did also, but this is still uncertain.
		The same probability of an early residence in Michigan applies to the Kickapoo as to the Foxes and for a similar reason.
		Part of the Prairie band of Potawatomi returned to Wisconsin, while another band, the Potawatomi of Huron, are in lower Michigan.
	www.whitemoonraven.com /maps/michigan.html (2401 words)

	From Gunn's through the unbroken forest to Turtle's,
		From Gunn's through the unbroken forest to Turtle's, on Toland's Prairie, the journey was made, and the party rested from a two-weeks pilgrimage through Michigan woods.
		The wheat stacks of Prairie Ronde supplied this colony with grain, and Vick-ers' mill, called the "pepper-mill, " from its diminutive size, was the nearest place where they could get grinding done.
		It was late in the fall of this eventful year that a party of four emigrants, in a wagon drawn by oxen, made slow progress through some half foot of snow, to a log shanty on the western side of Goguac Prairie.
	www.pure-michigan.com /lifeanew/15.php (363 words)

	The children of Bazel Harrison and Martha Stillwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mary Elizabeth died on 23 March 1845 and is buried in Harrison Cemetery, Prairie Ronde Township, Michigan.
		John is buried in Schoolcraft Cemetery in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, Michigan (obituary).
		Almira is buried in Harrison Cemetery in Prairie Ronde Township.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~maizeblue6/index2.html (2029 words)

	Institute for Public Policy and Social Research - Michigan Political Leadership Program
		Paul is a candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives, District 100 (Lake, Newaygo and Oceana Counties).
		She is a member of the Representative Assembly of the State Bar of Michigan, the Sacred Heart Parish in Dearborn, and the Association of Retarded Citizens of Dearborn.
		She is involved in coordinating a waste disposal system and recycling program for residents in Livingston County, and is assisting the administration in the reorganization of several departments within the Michigan State University College of Agriculture, of which she is an alumna.
	www.ippsr.msu.edu /MPLP/2004Fellows.htm (1405 words)

	History of St Joseph Co., MI, biographies from 1877
		On of the thriftiest farmers of the township of Colon is the subject of the present sketch, Adam Bower, who was born December 18, 1813, in Springport, Cayuga county, New York.
		The people of the township found in him an able and careful counsellor, and guardian of their public trusts, and they gave those trusts into his hands in the fullest measure.
		Coming into that township in 1837, he was necessarily intimately connected with its growth, development and prosperity, and was always esteemed as one of its most substantial citizens.
	members.tripod.com /~tfred/1877-165-179.html (5409 words)

	William C. Wooley b.14 June 1840 - Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo, Michigan
		His was the first family to settle permanently in the township and when he came he found a dense Wilderness.
		William C. Wooley, eldest son of John K. and Fanny Wooley was born in Prairie Ronde Township, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, June 14, 1840 and died April 19, 1913, aged 72 years 10 months and 5 days.
		When the cry for help in the days of the rebellion he was one of the first to respond, joining the Twenty-fifth Michigan Infantry as a private, returning as a Commissary Sergeant at the close of the war.
	www.mfhn.com /gratiot/fam_sheets/wooley_william_c_b_1840.asp (575 words)

	Abigail Bendure
		Sections 2, 10, and 11 are adjacent in Prairie Ronde Township, Kalamazoo County.
		In what is now the township of Prairie Ronde was made the first permanent settlement in Kalamazoo County.
		The location was its northeast portion, near a beautiful lake, and the person who had the honor of being the pioneer settler of the county--at the time being nearly sixty years of age--lived until the winds of more than.
	home.earthlink.net /~martyc05/bendure.htm (836 words)

	Early Michigan cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Estimating the size of the towns from the number of inhabitants of the townships in which they were located, one may conclude that the ten largest towns in Michigan in 1837, in decreasing order of their size, were Detroit, Ann Arbor, Monroe, Tecumseh, Ypsilanti, Adrian, Marshall, Pontiac, Grand Rapids, and Niles (see map below).
		On the Michigan frontier, the urban services most desired by the agricultural population were: 1) grinding grain and sawing timber, 2) governmental service, and 3) retailing.
		The other logical situation for a town-site speculation during the early years of settlement in Michigan was in the center of a dense agricultural population.
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/early_cities.html (1140 words)

	Mr. Harrison needed no further argument to convince (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christopher Bair came to the prairie and settled near the Harrisons in 1829-, and Abner Calhoun, Abram J. Shaver, Erastus Guilford, William Duncan, George Brown, John Insley, David Beadle, and others had come the winter before.
		In 1830 there were some sixty families on the prairie and vicinity, and measures were taken to organize a township government.
		A township meeting was held December 14, 1830, under a call "to the electors of the township of Brady, in Kalamazoo county, " at the house of Abner Calhoun, on Prairie Ronde.
	www.pure-michigan.com /bazil/16.php (334 words)

	Treaty With The Potawatomi - 1827
		One tract at the village of Prairie Ronde, of three miles square.
		One tract at the village of Match e be nash she wish, at the head of the Kekalamazoo river, of three miles square, which tracts contain in the whole ninety nine sections and one half section of land.
		Sections numbered five, six, seven and eight, in the fifth township, south of the base line, and in the ninth range west of the principal meridian in the Territory of Michigan.
	www.firstpeople.us /FP-Html-Treaties/TreatyWithThePotawatomi1827.html (421 words)

	Prairie Ronde, Michigan MI, township profile (Kalamazoo County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Michigan > All counties > Kalamazoo County > Prairie Ronde
		Prairie Ronde is a township in Kalamazoo County, in the Kalamazoo-Portage metro area.
		Median rent in Prairie Ronde, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $488.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=268077 (756 words)

	Kalamazoo Michigan American Local History Network
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		If you are interested in hosting a Michigan county, please contact Bonnie McVicar-Briggs, Lesley Moss or Sondra Higbee, the State Coordinators for Michigan.
		By the time Michigan was admitted to the Union on January 26, 1837, Bronson had been renamed Kalamazoo.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mi/state/orphan/kalamazoo (472 words)

	History of St Joseph Co., MI, biographies from 1870
		In September, 1843, he removed with his family to the township of Park, St. Joseph county, Michigan, and located a large tract of land (six hundred acres), which was wild and uncultivated, but which his sons, ender his management, subdued and brought to a high state of productiveness.
		He has held the office of justice of the peace in Lockport township for twelve years since 1856, and the office of supervisor of the township has been filled continuously by him from the fall of that year, to the present time, with the exception of the years 1863 and 1872.
		Prutzman, he being unmarried, passed the winter on the west side of Prairie Ronde, in Kalamazoo county, and in the spring, the firm built a store on the prairie, and opened their goods, remaining there for two years, when they removed to Three Rivers, having previously opened a branch store there.
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	Salary Database
		Resulting compensation information is made available to all of the 6,500 elected township officials across the state.
		The data is used to provide townships with a comparable measure on which to base compensation and benefit packages.
		It is hopeful that in the future MTA will be able to provide this information here on the website allowing township elected officials the opportunity to do their own inquires.
	www.michigantownships.org /salarydb.asp (350 words)

	Kalamazoo County, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kalamazoo County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan.
		The county board of commissioners controls the budget but has only limited authority to make laws or ordinances.
		In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc. — are the responsibility of individual cities and townships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalamazoo_County,_Michigan (481 words)

	Asset Mgmt
		The State of Michigan legislature wanted the roads and bridges in the state assessed using one consistent method to review the entire federal-aid system.
		During the Fall 2003, the Michigan Department of Transportation began assisting the local regions and metropolitan planning organizations in Michigan in the gathering of this data.
		The data was collected using a three-person team made up of one representative from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), the Kalamazoo County Road Commission (KCRC) and KATS.
	www.katsmpo.org /html/asset_mgmt.html (370 words)

	Prairie Ronde, MI (Kalamazoo County) - township political info - ePodunk
		Prairie Ronde, MI (Kalamazoo County) - township political info - ePodunk
		Michigan > All counties > Kalamazoo County > Prairie Ronde Township
		Commercial FM radio stations in or near Prairie Ronde
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/politicalInfo.php?locIndex=268077 (263 words)

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		Many people claim to see a light come out of river and chase their vehicle to the end of the road, if they stop at the center of the bridge at night.
		The cemetery is named after Bazel Harrison, who led 21 of the first settlers of the Prarie Ronde Kalamazoo county.
	www.ratrun.com /michigan.htm (3464 words)

	1870 Census - Compiled and presented by the Library of Michigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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