The Kodak Man

The Kodak Man.

In the state gazeteer in 1838 I found the following notices which are interesting at this date.

"Ypsilanti township. Washtenaw county, is comprised in township three south, of range seven east, watered by the Huron river and Stony creek. Statistics as per census -- Population 2,280, 3 grist mills, 6 saw mills, 2 cording machines, a cloth dressing shop, a distillery, 14 merchants.

Ypsilanti, village and post office, in a township of the same name, in the county of Washtenaw, situated on the Huron river, and on the Chicago road. It contains a bank and banking association, 2 churches, one each for Presbyterians and Methodists, a flouring mill with two run of stone, 2 saw mills, a woolen factory, cording machine, iron foundry, tannery, a druggist, 8 or 10 stores, 5 lawyers, and 4 physicians. The Detroit and St. Joseph railroad is to pass through it. There is considerable hydraulic power here, and it is in a flourishing coundition. The population does not exceed perhaps 1,000. Distant nine miles from Ann Arbor and 30 from Detroit."