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Improvements were commenced here in 1836. and in 1840 it numbered 9 stores, 5 groceries, 5 hotels, 3 tailors shops, 4 carpenters shops, 3 blacksmiths shops, a tannery, and a Methodist and Catholic Church and about eighty five dwellings. This is the point usually considered as the most proper for the termination of a rail road from Lake Michigan.

Sinipee, on section six township one range two west, is also spoken of as destined to become an important point for the shipment of lead. The town stands on the edge of the water, which is deep near shore, affording a convenient landing for the largest steamboats.

Platteville is the largest of the interior towns, situated on section fifteen in township three range one west, in the immediate vicinity of some extensive "mineral diggings". It is five miles west from Belmont, on a small branch of the Little Platte river.

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