Angusdale Stock Farm
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Jagman714
N 44° 57.588 W 084° 18.823
16T E 711868 N 4981995
The Angusdale Stock Farm marker is located at 8391 Buttles Rd. Vienna Twp., Mi.
Waymark Code: WMW2F
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2006
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A Milwaukee businessman, Cephas Buttles became aware of Lewiston through his brother-in-law David Kneeland, president of Kneeland and Bigelow Lumber Company. In 1901 Buttles purchased twenty-five thousand acres of cutover timber land and started the Home Colony Company, intent on populating the northern part of the Lower Peninsula. Buttles built the twelve-hundred acre Angusdale Stock farm in 1902 as a model for his company, and he featured photographs of it in his sales brochure. The promise of cheap fertile land and winter job opportunities at local mills lured former lumbermen, miners and immigrants -- primarily Scandinavians to the area. By the 1920s, however, the topsoil became depleted of nutrients and Lewiston's land boom ended.
Historical Name: Cephas Buttles of the Home Colony Company
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Registered Site #: L2132
Historical Date: Not listed
Description: Not listed
website: Not listed
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