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Shiawassee County, Michigan




 

Shiawassee County, Michigan

Shiawassee County, Michigan

Shiawassee County is named for its principal river the Shiawassee River. Shiawassee is thought to be an Indian word meaning "river that twists about."

A fur trader named Henry Bolieu set up a trading post on the Shiawassee River around 1816. A few years later an Indian reservation was created in Shiawassee County. A great influx of immigrants came in 1836, with settlement beginning on the Shiawassee River and gradually spreading throughout the county.

Today Shiawassee County is a prominent agricultural county with over 2,000 farms producing soybeans, beans, oats, winter wheat, corn, hay, peppermint, dairy herds, and poultry. Manufacturing concerns are diversified, including a vitrified tile plant at Corunna, one of a few in the state.



 

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