TOWN HISTORIES

TOWN OF MAPLE GROVE

Very few of our citizens are aware of the increase in population and 
prosperity of this locality and its immediate neighborhood. Two years 
ago, the person who proposed to open a stock of goods at this point 
would have been laughed at. There are now two good stores there, both 
well filled, and both doing good business, if we can believe the 
representations of the residents of that locality, and the prospect is 
that neither will have enough goods to last till spring.
We made a flying visit up there a short time before election, and though 
we did not call at the establishment of our friends, L.C. Harrington & Co., 
we had time to stop a few minutes at the store of Thos. Cunningham. There 
is a Saw Mill and Grist Mill at this place, and farmers are rapidly 
settling in the neighborhood. We had an opportunity of testing the 
proverbial hospitality of D.B. Knapp, under whose supervision of a fine 
bridge is being built across the river, and spent the night at the house 
of our old acquaintance, Mr. A.C. Tufts, and after an indescriminate 
slaughter of ducks, partidges, etc., and enjoying the comfort and freedom 
of the bachelor home of Mr. A.O. Pool, and listening to a rehearsal of the 
'wild scenes of a hunters life,' we returned with the full determination 
to take another just such tramp, whenever we can heave our paper to the 
tender mercies of compositor and devil; and a complete and radical 
improvement in our physical condition, which we attribute to the bracing 
effect of exercise in the open air, has no tendency to alter our 
determination.
Manitowoc Tribune, Manitowoc, Wis. Saturday, November 18, 1854 P. 3