Linden
Linden
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Linden Local History Fentonville had an early rival for village honors in what has become the village of Linden. The first settlers here were Richard and Perry Lamb, who settled in 1835, on section 29. For a long time the house of Perry Lamb furnished accommodations for travelers and Mrs. Lamb was known far and wide as an excellent housewife, a courteous entertainer and a most exemplary pioneer lady. Mrs. Lamb’s father, Zenas Fairbank, came to the neighborhood in 1836 and began the practice of medicine. Other early settlers in the vicinity of Linden were Asahel Ticknor, Charles and Joseph Byram, Seth C. Sadler, Consider Warner, Eben Harris, Jonathan Shephard and Beniah Sanborn. The village was first platted in February, 1840. Consider Warner and Eben Harris were among the original proprietors. Mr. Warner built a saw-mill here in 1837, and in 1838 began the erection of a grist-mill. In 1839 Warner and Harris opened a store and, in 1840, a drug store. Between 1836 and 1840 a log bridge was built across the Shiawassee at Linden, and soon after it was carried away by the raising of the dam a frame bridge was thrown across, the first of many others to follow. The first school in Linden was taught in 1839, by a daughter of Abel D. Hunt, in a shanty which stood in front of the grist-mill. Walter Brown taught at the same place the following winter; he had taught earlier a school about three-fourths of a mile east. The first building erected purposely for a school house within what are now the corporate limits of the village, was a log structure put up in 1840 on the street running south from the Union Block. Louisa Hillman and John Morris were among its early teachers; it was used only about two years, when a frame building was completed. The first religious society in the village was organized previous to 1838 by the Free-Will Baptists; its first minister was Rev. Mr. Jones, from Holly, Oakland County, who is said to have preached his first sermon here the previous year from a pile of saw-logs in the mill-yard. Rev. Hiram Madison was also early, having preached a funeral sermon in August, 1836. The second religious organization was formed by the Methodists, who organized a class about 1838-39. An early minister was Rev. Daniel Miller. In 1840 a village was laid out at Mount Pleasant, by John Cook, who with his brother, Solomon, had settled there. On the eastern shore of Long Lake, below the “narrows,” Philip H. McOmber settled in 1834 and long kept a tavern known as the Long Lake House. The vicinity of this pleasant lake was destined to become a favorite summering place and picnicking ground for the surrounding region. Home to Linden Mills, an old mill with a water wheel on Tupper Lake, Linden was named after the linden tree. There are beautiful Victorian style buildings in the downtown area |
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