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Michigan Crystal Falls
Coming down the hill the bale was caught by the limb. Next morning after taking some pork and beans for breakfast, at what is now known as the Stephenson House (at that time it was almost a shed, run by, AJ. Harding), I took a look around through the stumps and trees and counted in all four buildings (but not as they are to-day): Wm. Doncett's, John Kelly's M. Ragan's, and the one of A. J. Harding's; with several started, and H. C. Kimball's in progress. Then I took a stroll down to the saw-mill, owned by the Crystal Falls Iron Company, and superintended by
Messrs. Geo. Runkel and D. C. Lockwood, who were soon succeeded by Mr. J. E. Elmore. The mill, with its general store, occupied and owned by Messrs. Leopold and Runkel, was the place where everybody called for his letters, which were brought there by teams from Florence, and was later changed to a post office with Miss Julia Runkel as postmistress.
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