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Ft;ttv1;The first post office on the National, road was located at the place opposite j Stough's, oue mile west of Brazil, | ^ called Van Buveu and kept by Philip Hedges, who had decided to lay out a town there, but from some cause abandoned it. I think the office was located there as e;«rly as 1832 or 1833. A number of ycats afterward it was removed to Wu^amstown and finally discontinued a()out 1860. The first school house ii the township, as it now is, was bfilt at Cloverland by James Watson and myself, and Peter Holz was the first teacher. The first church house wa^ also built at Clover-land by the Baptists. The first horsepower grist mill was put up on the present Nathan Williams place near Staunton, and soon afterward another was put in operation down on the Morgan Brymt place. The first steam grist mill was erected at Cloverland in 1855. When I located here, there were but two houses between this point and Bowling Green—one on the Cole p’ace, on the B oomington road, and | the other on the Gilfillan {dace, at j Center Poin:—Wrangler Moore occupied the former and Levi Walker, the latter. In the first settling of the country 1 weighed 160 pounds, but now T weigh 230. I think a clear conscience is the cause, as I never won any great victories, neither in fightingnor gambling.6iteri1ic•t1cI
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Brazil National Index
Brazil, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 28, 1879
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