356 GENERAL HISTORY. 



ARENAC COUNTY. 



This county was set off by act of the Legislative Council of the Territory, 

 approved March 2d, 1831, but became part of Bay county by virtue of an 

 act of the Legislature of the State, approved February 10th, 1857. 



GLADWIN COUNTY. 



Gladwin county was set off by act of the Legislative Council of the Terri- 

 tory, approved March 2d, 1831. It was organized in pursuance of an act of 

 the State Legislature, approved April 8th, 1875, and an amendment thereto, 

 approved April 29th, 1875, by virtue of which the organization was accom- 

 plished on the first day of June, 1875. 



The county seat is Gladwin. 



According to the Gladwin County Record of May 21st, 1886, the first per- 

 manent settlement in this county was by Marvil Secord, in 1862, who was 

 soon followed by Benjamin Teeple, Willard Grout and others. 



According to the census of 1884 this county had of apple orchards, 100 

 acres, 623 bearing trees, yielding in 1883, 262 bushels of fruit. 



Peach orchards, none, 1 bearing tree, yielding in 1883 one bushel of fruit. 



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

 $244.00. 



Vineyards, none: grapes sold in 1883, none, 

 wine made in 1883, none. 



Nurseries, none; products sold in 1883, none. 



Market garden products sold in 1883, $1,920.00. 



The Gladwin County Eecord of July 16th, 1886, says: ''The primitive con- 

 dition of Gladwin, as a farming county, is shown in the fact that, in 1885, 

 only 61 acres are reported in orchards, and the business of fruit, large and 

 small, sold aggregate only $285.00. These figures are of little value, save as a 

 starting point, and fifty per cent addition is none too great to make for the 

 year 1886." 



The northwestern portion of the county reaches an elevation above Lake 

 Huron of about six hundred feet in the upper portion of the Tittabawassee 

 valley. 



CLARE COUNTY. 



This was formerly known as Kaykakee county. It was set off and organ- 

 ized as Clare county by an act of the Legislature, approved March 16th, 1871. 



The county seat was established by the Legislature at Farwell, which was 

 settled in 1870. 



No information is at hand respecting the early settlement or the horticult- 

 ural improvement of the county. 



The southeastern portions of the county are drained by the affluents of the 



