Great idea, L.A.
"My" township is Sheffield. The early settlement of Sheffield township by
Europeans began in the 1820s at the site of an old Indian village. Native
peoples had established a town called the Wyandott village on the south fork
of the Wild Cat Creek at a site in the center of Richardville Reserve, a few
miles to the south of the present town of Dayton. At the time of white
settlement, a trading post was located at the Wyandott village. After a mill
was built, a settlement sprang up that was eventually platted as Wyandott or
Wyandotte. A few years later town plats were filed for settlements to the
north of Wyandotte that would eventually be joined and called Dayton. The
township histories on the INTIPPEC site include one on Sheffield:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~intippec/twp.html
Here Richardville Reserve is explained and the story of the settlement by
the James Paige group in March 1823 is recounted.
Sheffield township was featured in a recent issue of the TIPCOA newsletter.
I have a brief history of Dayton posted on the INTIPPEC Web page at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~intippec/DaytonHist.html
On 8/19/06 8:00 AM, "INTIPPEC-D-request(a)rootsweb.com"
<INTIPPEC-D-request(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
ON a new topic, How about we discuss township?