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Annual Square Dance

The Party Continues

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Remus Town Hall

Tell One - Tell All!

Where: Remus Township Hall

Remus, Michigan

Time: 5 p.m. - Midnight
Cost: Dish to Pass

Caller: To Be Announced

It's your night out!

Bring a dish to pass!

Meat, Bread, Punch, Plates, etc. will be furnished

Music: Square Dance, Round Dance, Doo Wap, & Rock 'n Roll

Given by: The Gang

OSRW - 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization

Old Settlers

"Old Settlers" came from Canada via "The Underground Railroad." It was the most dramatic nonviolent protest against slavery in the United States that began in the Colonial Era and reached its peak between 1830 and 1865. An estimated 30,000 to 100,000 slaves used the "railroad" to get to Canada; many others escaped to Mexico, the Caribbean & Europe.

Doraville Whitney

Doraville Whitney was the first Black settler to Isabella County in 1860. The first documentation of an African-American settler in Mecosta County Michigan was James Guy. His deed was signed by Abraham Lincoln. He obtained 160 acres in Wheatland Township on May 30, 1861. Lloyd & Margaret Guy were the first Black settlers in Montcalm County in 1861. The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed each settler 160 acres in Michigan. By 1873 African-Americans owned 1,392 acres in the three counties of Isabella, Mecosta and Montcalm. In the 1860's most of the land in Remus was owned by the Old Settlers.

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