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MILTON TOWNSHIP: In 1851 a man by the name of Thomas (Hill), an old English sailor, settled in the present township of Milton; being the first to clear and cultivate the soil in this township. He was soon followed in 1853 by Alexander O. Campbell, Chauncey Hall, and others. 1857: The township of Milton was organized by the board of supervisors of Grand Traverse County, at a meeting held March 3, 1857. The substance of the resolution adopted is as follows: "In the matter of the application of Charles Holley and nineteen others it is ordered that the territory described as follows: Bounded east by Torch Lake and Torch River, south by Round Lake, west by Elk Lake. 1867: "Milton is a township of very excellent land, and has some of the best cultivated farms in the county. A small settlement of Indians own lands in the western part of the town. They live in a little village of their own at the north end of Elk Lake, and farm only on a very small scale, the Indians spending their time mostly in fishing and hunting, or in working for the whites, while the squaws do nearly all the planting, hoeing and harvesting. This is the only Indian settlement in the county
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