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In making np the admirable exhibit of Michigan fruits the growth of 1875, 

 at the opening of tlio Centennial Exposition in May, 1876, contributions 

 were received from the following citizens of Monroe ccuinty, viz: E. H. 

 Reynolds, Levi Buck, Charles Atkinson, Caleb Ives, P. Fisher, E. Jose, W. 

 Bloodgood, G. Toll, A. White, J. M. Davenport, T. E. Mason, G. W. 

 Burchin, Wakeman Reynolds and Robert Ilendershot. 



To the fall Centennial exhibit the following were contributed from Monroe 

 county: I. E. Ilgenfritz, about fifty varieties of pears ; J. M. Loose, pears; 

 Reynolds, Lewis & Co., apples; Charles Atkinson, B. Compton, G. Brinker- 

 hoff, Caleb Ives, grapes and other fruits; Diedrick and Pointe de Peaux, 

 grapes and wines ; E. Sumner, walnuts, hazel nuts and hickory nuts. 



Monroe county supplied the superintendent of the State Horticultural 

 exhibit in the person of Charles A. Ilgenfritz, and likewise the collector of 

 the State exhibit of pears in that of his father, I. E. Ilgenfritz, both of the 

 city of Monroe. 



The census of 1884 gave to Monroe county, of 



Apple orchards 9,334 acres, 294,305 bearing trees, yielding in 1883 83,280 

 bushels of fruit. 



Peach orchards 139 acres, 13,060 bearing trees, yielding in 1883 168 

 bushels of fruit. 



The value of orchard products of all kinds sold or consumed in 1883 was 

 $37,768. 



Vineyards 309 acres: grapes sold in 1883, 18i,673 pounds. 



wine made in 1883, 13,335 gallons. 



Nurseries 286 acres ; products sold in 1883, $41,916. 



Market garden products sold in 1883, 17,553. 



LENAWEE COUNTY. 



Lenawee county was set off and established by proclamation of Lewis Cass, 

 governor of the Territory of Michigan, on September 10th, 1822, and attached 

 to the county of Monroe. It was organized as a separate county, under the 

 provisions of an act of the Legislative Council of the Territory, which took 

 effect on the 31st day of December, 1826. By an act of the Legislative 

 Council, the county seat was established at Tecumseh, but it was removed to 

 Adrian by an act of the State Legislature, which took effect on the 1st Mon- 

 day of November, 18-38. 



In the summer of 1823, Musgrove Evans, of Brownsville, Jefferson county. 

 New York, explored this region, and made his way as far as the present site 

 of Tecumseh. He was so impressed with the advantages of the locality, 

 and with the prospective value of the hydraulio power along the river Raisin 

 in the vicinity, that he removed here the following spring with his family, 

 accompanied by ten or twelve other settlers. During the summer of 1824, a 

 village was laid out by the proprietors of the land. Wing, Evans, and Brown, 

 and was dignified with the name of the renowned Indian chief -y- Tecumseh. 



In the summer of 1825, Darius Comstock settled midway between Tecumseh 

 and Adrian, in what is now the township of Raisin, where he is reported to 

 have planted the first orchard in the county, during the same or the follow- 



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