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Allegan County MI

• 09.22.09
  Hay rake
  Allegan County MI (0)

  Cyrenius Thompson was credited as being the first settler in Plainwell, MI. The town is now reaching out to take over his farm, but there are a couple of fields it hasn't yet overtaken. This photo was taken on Saturday, from the edge of the cemetery where Cyrenius and Anna are buried. The man riding the rake was encouraging his "girls" as they made their way from one of the fields to the next. I wonder if he puts the hay up loose, like in olden times, or if he bales it. Maybe another ...
  
  
• 09.20.09
  Cyrenius and Anna Thompson
  Allegan County MI (0)

  Yesterday I finally got in a ride, the first since August 31. I had missed some of the best time of the year for riding. I picked a modest destination, not sure how out of condition I had got in those 18 days. The wind was from the east, so I went west, to Plainwell where Dr. Cyrenius Thompson had started farming in 1832. He and his wife Anna are buried in the cemetery shown here. I almost didn't find their graves, though. I had visited this cemetery many years ago, on a cold, runny-nose kind of day. I don't ...
  
  
• 12.08.07
  They demurred, and moved not
  2006, Allegan County MI (0)

  My last post was from a ride in Allegan County on July 31, 2006. I was near Hopkins, on my way to Martin for a photo stop before riding the remaining 30 miles to home. This library is in downtown Martin. Mumford Eldred, brother of Caleb Eldred of Climax Prairie (two posts back) was the original buyer of the land pictured here. He bought the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 29 in Martin Township. And at the extreme northwest corner of that 40 acre parcel is the intersection and former grocery store ...
  
  
• 12.07.07
  Rolling terrain in Allegan County, of all places
  Allegan County MI (0)

  I had hopes the roads would be clear enough for a bike ride tomorrow (well, I guess tomorrow is today already) but I just now drove home on new snow. This scene is of weather just the opposite of what we're having now. On the last day of July 2006 I rode home from Holland, making a ride of around 90 miles out of it. The temperature was in the mid 90s, even though it doesn't look it in this photo. I was pleasantly surprised when I came to this place. I didn't know any terrain like it ...
  
  
• 09.08.07
  Plummerville
  Allegan County MI (0)

  This afternoon (Saturday) I rode 63 miles to the Plummerville cemetery south of Saugatuck, very near the shore of Lake Michigan. A Daniel Plummer, who lived in Saugatuck for a time, had served in the Michigan militia during the Black Hawk war. He was said to have later moved to California, perhaps during the Gold Rush. In this cemetery a whole bunch of Plummers are buried, starting with a Benjamin Plummer who was the patriarch of the clan, up to the present time. (At the cemetery I learned that Plummers are still being buried there in the 21st century.) Are these Plummers ...