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POTTAWATOMIE INDIAN MONUMENT [Twin Lakes, Marshall County]
The Pottawatomie Indian Monument will be erected on a site near Twin Lakes, Marshall
county, three quarters of an acre being donated for the purpose by John McFarlin. The site is not
what was originally contemplated but is within the Indian reservation and many think it the most
desirable location, as it can be seen from both the railroad and the wagon road.
Bids were received by the Marshall county commissioners Monday, and the contract was
awarded to Suthworth and Son, the Plymouth Marble men.
It will be remembered that the last legislature appropriated $2,500 for the erection of this
monument, the bill for the same being introduced and fathered by Hon. Daniel McDonald, who
has long interested himself in the perpetuation of the Pottawatomie Indians in the memories of
succeeding generations. It was this tribe of Indians that made their home in Marshall county prior
to the coming of the white men.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, December 2, 1908]
NEWS OF THE DAY
Chief Menomenee, the statue which is to be placed at Twin Lakes, arrived in Plymouth
yesterday and will be placed by Southworth & Son, of that city. It and the die upon which it sets
weigh 40,000 pounds. The statue will be set this week.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, August 12, 1909]
POTTOWATTOMIE MONUMENT
Mr. Charles T. Mattingly and Col. A. F. Fleet, two of the trustees of the Pottawattomie
Monument, met at Culver Military Academy one day last week, and selected September 4, 1909
as the day for the unveiling and dedication ceremonies of the monument, that being the 71st
anniversary of the removal of the Indians from the reservation. Mr. Daniel McDonald was
selected by the trustees to arrange the program and take charge of the unveiling ceremonies on the
date named. Messrs. Southworth & Son, the contractors, are having the monument cut at Barre,
Vermont, the material to be Barre granite, the pedestal 10 feet high, with the statue of an Indian of
the same material 7 feet high, making the monument in all 17 feet high. The work is progressing
finely and will probably be completed and ready to set up some time the first part of August. It is
to be erected on an acre or more of ground at Twin Lakes station on the Vandalia railroad, donated
by John A. McFarlin. It is about the center of the Menominee reservation of 22 sections of land
from which the Pottawattomie Indians to the number of nearly 1,000 were driven away September
4, 1838. It is an ideal spot for the monument, easy of access by railroad or wagon road, and can be
plainly seen from the cars. It is intended to make the unveiling ceremonies the most important
historical event that has ever occurred in the county.
Congressman H. A. Barnhart, of this city, will be one of the speakers of the day.
[Rochester Sentinel, Saturday, August 21, 1909]
POTTAWATOMIE MILL [Rochester Township]
[See LAKE MANITOU, LAKE MANITOU’S EARLY HISTORY - Rochester Sentinel,
Saturday, March 11, 1922]
Located at the dam at the outlet of Lake Manitou.
Built to fulfill a term of Treaty of Oct. 16, 1826 between the United States Governmet
and the Potawatomie Indians, whereby the Government, among other things, ground corn for the
Indians in return for land 100 feet wide for a road from Lake Michigan to the Wabash River.
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MANUFACTURING AND COMMERCE
The commercial and manufacturing history of Fulton County is not one of great
achievements or startling rise of industries. Agriculture has, and probably always will be, the chief
industry of the county. The commercial history of Fulton County rightfully begins with the