Jackson Township - September 1868

BOYLE, JAMESON, ROBERTS, BYERS, WEBSTER

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 11/6/2014 at 20:30:16

FROM JACKSON TOWNSHIP.

OAK GROVE, SEPT. 21ST, 1868.

Mr. Editor: - Perhaps a few lines now and then from Jackson may not be without interest to the reader of the PRESS. When our country called men to her defense, many left here for the ensanguined fields of the South. Many of the fields of promise and avenues of wealth were thus left here, as elsewhere in “High Henry”, uncultivated and uncared for, during the years of the rebellion. Since the war closed, most of those [who survived] have returned to their peaceful vocations at home.

Several men of capital and energy have recently become citizens of this Township, and are doing much to develop its resources. No Township in the county furnishes better facilities for obtaining timber and water, that this. There is an abundance of timber for fuel, and for fencing and building purposes, and convenient to all. No part of the Township is more than three miles from timber. Skunk River furnishes good water power. Boyle’s Mills, [Saw and Grist,] in the eastern part of the Township, on this stream, are doing a good business. They are owned by Messrs. Jameson and Roberts. A Carding Machine is run in connection with these Mills. A steam Saw Mill, about one mile and a half up the river from here, saws a large amount of lumber. It is owned by F. Byers & Co. In the vicinity of these Mills there is plenty of Oak and Walnut timber. Two miles farther up the river, and four miles south of Mt. Pleasant, Caleb Webster, Esq., is engaged in building Saw and Grist Mills. – But of this and other improvements, in my next. Success to you and the PRESS. – More soon. G.W.T.

[“Henry County Press”, September 30, 1868, page 3]