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History of the Lake Huron Shore
H. R. Page & Co., - 1883

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                           GREENBUSH VILLAGE
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        is situate about six miles south of Harrisville, on the lake, and
     has one steam sawmill, under the supervision of JOSEPH VAN BUSKIRK,
     and connected with Springport by a telephone line built by him for
     personal convenience.
        MR. VAN BUSKIRK has a general store at this place also, and carries
     on a considerable trade with the farmers of Greenbush Township, who
     find the postoffice, telegraph office and dock a great convenience.
        The inhabitants consist principally of the employes of MR. VAN
     BUSKIRK's lumbering operations at this point.
        It is also the location of the town hall and schoolhouse of
     District No. 1 of Greenbush Township. The farming district is located
     about three miles west of the village, and here the county has located
     the county poor-farm and county poor-house.
        The farm comprises 200 acres of excellent farming lands, adapted
     to both grain and grass. The farm is under the management of LOUIS VAN
     WAGNER who is a practical farmer, and his crops are usually the best
     in the county.
        The superintendents of the poor are MESSRS. GEO. H. BLUSH, of
     Harrisville; DAVID MULHOLLAND, of Alcona; WILLIAM C. SHEPPARD, of
     Greenbush.
        Upon those gentlemen devolve the care of the poor of their respect-
     ive townships, and the direction of the business of the county farm.
        The decrepid and otherwise unfortunate, homeless poor, requiring
     public support, are taken to the farm, furnished with medical atten-
     dance, clothing and food, and permitted to labor, when able to do so,
     for their own support.
        The large part of the county expense for the support of the poor is
     for outside relief, to indigent people at their own homes.
        Greenbush Township, as well as the other townships adjoining it,
     embrace some of the best farming lands in Alcona County.
        Among those lands is a tract lying on the Pine River, and generally
     known as the KILLMASTER estate. They are situate about seven miles
     from Greenbush village and about nine miles from Harrisville village,
     and accessible by good wagon roads. They comprise over 5,000 acres,
     mostly situated in Towns 26, 6 and 26, 8 East. These lands are mostly
     heavily timbered with beech, sugar maple, black birch, hemlock, white
     ash and white cedar, and have a soil unequaled in the State, for
     productive-ness.
        MR. R. P. GUSTIN of MESSRS. GUSTIN & MERRILL, of Bay City, one of
     the owners of these lands, with MR. JOHN KILLMASTER, only son of the
     late HENRY KILLMASTER, have commenced clearing a stock farm, with 100
     acres chopped and about fifteen acres under crop.
        They have also commenced building a water-mill on the east branch
     of the Pine River, for sawing lumber and shingles, to clear their
     lands and accommodate settlers, with lumber for building. They offer
     these lands for sale to actual settlers in quantities to suit purchas-
     ers and at nominal prices.
        The Pine River empties into the Au Sable and furnishes transporta-
     tion for all the timber of that large tract, as well as employment to
     all who will work at lumbering; also a home market for all the pro-
     ductions of the settlers.
        The building of this sawmill, and bridge across the Pine River,
     will give a new impetus to the early settlement of this part of the
     county. Here labor and capital may join hands, and find how indispen-
     sable and mutual are their interests, when combined for the purpose of
     making homes in the woods.

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