Ionia-Kent-Statewide County MI Archives News.....Now Is Inside City January 31, 1912
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Grand Rapids Press January 31, 1912
Smith Farm One Was Several Miles Beyond The City Limits.
James O. Smith, who lives five miles southeast of Portland, Mich., has a little
history stores away in his mind which is especially interesting to residents of
the Fifth ward and member of the Creston Citizens' association. Mr. Smith drops
into town occasionally and every times he comes he is reminded of the time when
as a boy he located here with his parents in 1851, They settled on a farm on
what is now Plainfield avenue, but the exact location Mr. Smith is unable to
give. At any rate the land was purchased at $20 an acre and on it were two log
homes. One of them was a double house and prior to that had been used as a
hotel.  Smith says that he has learned that the land which at was time was his
father's now is a part of the city and the lots platted.  Smith is an old
soldier. He enlisted in 1862 as a private in Company E. Twenty-fifth Michigan
infantry.

Additional Comments:
Transcribers Note; Mr. Smith, a resident of Portland, Michigan  is referring to
Plainfied avenue in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  

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