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REMINISCENCE OF L. B. PRICE, OF OAKLAND COUNTY.4situate 25 miles north of Detroit, in the township of Shelby, Macomb Co. This place consisted then of not more than three or four dwelling houses and two, or perhaps three, places of business; on one side of Clinton river there was a blacksmith shop and a distillery—it seems they were a necessity in those days as well as now. The nearest point where dry goods or groceries could be obtained was at what was then (and is now, I think) called Troy Corners, in a little store kept by Mr. Johnson Niles; or at Mt. Clemens, eleven miles distant. The first saw mill and grist mill built in the village of Utica were built by my grandfather,
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