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Clare County, Michigan
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Clare County is located a little northeast of the middle of
Michigan�s lower peninsula. It was organized in 1840, with Farwell
as the county seat. At that time, its name was Kaykee, after Chippewa Indian
Chief Pigeon Hawk , who signed the Treaty of 1826. In 1843, Irish immigrants
renamed it after a county in their homeland. The first permanent community to
settle here was in Dover in Grant Township, started by William Crawford, a Civil
War veteran. The county grew rapidly in the 1850�s and 60�s due to its huge
white pine forests and strategic position for floating lumber both east and west
to Saginaw (down the Tobacco River) and Muskegon (down the Muskegon River). The
rapid growth produced such lawlessness in the lumber camps and even local
government that citizens burned down the courthouse in Farwell in 1877 and moved
the county seat to Harrison
for a fresh start. |
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