The Nankin Township Historical Society

Detroit Free Press , October 3, 1864 While some internet sites state that Pike's Peak came into being in 1882, they're wrong. Not only that but Pike's Peak and Perrinsville existed at the same time as attested to in this article from 1864. Pike's Peak is noted to be a city of no "magnificent distances" with stumps barely cleared and it used to have a store on Broadway Street (I think they are implying Main St.). A large crowd of 1,200-1,500 assembled from Perrinsville, Pike's Peak and Plymouth , which brought a band, to meet in a barn to hear political speeches by Hon. Levi Bishop, M. W. Reynolds and J. D. Weir, among others. They praised the defunct Whig Party, lambasted the Republicans and the National Union Party (Lincoln Republicans) of Lincoln and neglected to mention the Democrats entirely so I'm not sure who they were for. I guess I'll have to track down the election results. Not that I'm all that concerned being more interested in the...

Detroit Free Press , March 11, 1864 On occasion there are mentions of both East and South Nankin in search results but I don't think I've ever seen a reference to an either North or West Nankin. Which might be because that's where the largest concentration of population was or I could just flatly be wrong. Regardless, Elizabeth Stewart of East Nankin was in the graduating class of 1864 at the Normal College (EMU) and read an essay entitled "Words for the Hour" bidding farewell to classmates and the faculty. I t's hard to imagine such a setting in pre-electricity days but I suppose that people were more quiet and courteous back then. I also can't imagine going to the archives there on horseback and publishing my findings in an newspaper called the "Southeastern Northwestern Nankin Township Historical Society of the Frontierlands of Michigania in Wolverina".