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The first documentation of an African-American settler in Mecosta County Michigan was James Guy, who obtained 160 acres in Wheatland Township on May 30, 1861. By 1873 African-Americans owned 1,392 acres. The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed each settler 160 acres in Rolland Township. Most of the land where Remus sits in the 1860's was owned by the Old Settlers.

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Thomas Harris, Sr. Family

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Walter Harris Family

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Harris Family Pictures

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Walter Harris Family

Photographs Courtesy of Ken Todd

Boyne City Lumber Camp Picture - 1910

?, ?, Jessie Harper Harris,

Walter Harris holding Verda Harris, ?,

Children in wagon are Roy & Gertrude Harris

Walter & Jessie (Harper) Harris Family

Walter E. Harris

Fred & Verta (Harris) Todd, Baby-Mary

Jane, Gertie, Elizabeth, Dorothy

& Walt Harris (1926)

Walter Harris, Jr. Family

Back: Paula & Walter Harris

Front: Sandra, Karen, & Bonnie Harris

Walter Harris, Jr.

Art Nowels & Walter Harris


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There are "Old Settlers" who came from Canada via "The Underground Railroad." It was the most dramatic nonviolent protest against slavery in the United States that began in the Colonial Era and reached its peak between 1830 and 1865. An estimated 30,000 to 100,000 slaves used the "railroad" to get to Canada; many others escaped to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe.

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