Osceola County MI Archives History .....Osceola County Court House 
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From the time the county was formally organized and the county seat located at 
Hersey to the completion of a 

court-house, the county rented a building for a court room and offices.  
During the winter of 187-2, or early in the 

year 1872, Mr. D. A. Blodgett (to whom the county is much indebted for many 
benefits conferred) proposed to the county, 

through its Board of Supervisors, to donate a block of ground in the town of 
Hersey and $3,500, toward the construction 

of a court-house, if the county would give the balance.  This liberal 
proposition was accepted by the county, and the 

erection of the court-house was begun.  It was completed in 1873, about mid-
summer, and was formally taken possession of 

and the officers duly installed in their respective office rooms.  The cost of 
this structure is estimated at $8,500.



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1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Osceola Co.

Chapman Brothers, Chicago

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