According to available documents and letters from early immigrants, the nucleus of a Roman Catholic Church was in existence upon their arrival in 1832.  Children were instructed and services held in private homes until completion of a log church, built in the center of Green Oak Township in 1838.  Rev. Father Partrick O’Kelley for many […]

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Michigan Territory’s first Protestant congregation was the First Presbyterian Church of Detroit,  organized in 1826.  From that beginning developed many other Presbyterian churches in the Southeastern Michigan area, including Brighton.  Rev. & Mrs. Chauncey Osborne arrived in 1852, to form a new congregation.  

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Serving as Acting Governor of Michigan before he was 21, Stevens T. Mason, in his address at the convening of the Territorial Council in 1832, encourage the members to consider legislation in support of education for the citizens of the Territory of Michigan.  Laws passed almost a quarter century earlier had not been implemented.  Even […]

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Prior to the advent of sawmills in the area lumber, glass, sash, etc., was drawn by ox team from Ann Arbor or Detroit.  A case in point being of Lewis B. Fonda who, in 1832, entered the W ¼ of the SW ¼ of Section 32.  In 1834 he erected on it a frame house, […]

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