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".