These links with information about Michigan's Settlement Era (1800-1830) provide further resources for your study. We hope you find them useful and informative. We check them periodically, but we cannot be responsible for their availability or content. If you see problems with response or content at any of these sites, please notify that site's webmaster.

• Constitution of the State of Michigan of 1835
• Diaries, Daybooks and Personal Journals [PDF] (Archival Circular shows holdings in the State Archives' collections)
• Early Michigan Diaries and Autobiographies (Library of Michigan bibliography)
• Father Gabriel Richard: Detroit's pioneer priest (The Detroit News Review Mirror)
• Historical Documents Related to the Laws of Michigan (Michigan Legislature)
• Michigan Counties: Year of Organization and Source of County Name
• Michigan Local History in the Clarke Library
• Michigan Through the Years: A Brief History of the Great Lake State
• Virtual Museum of Surveying
• American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920, American Memory, Library of Congress (Type "Michigan" into the Search box.)
• Visit the Walker Tavern Historic Complex (settlement-era stagecoach stop)
  Take the Barn Exhibit on-line tour.
• The war between Michigan and Ohio (Detroit News Rearview Mirror)

Plank and Corduroy Roads

• A brief practical treatise on the construction and management of plank roads, by Robert Dale Owen. With an appendix containing the general plank road laws of New York, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois ... Also, the opinion of Judge Gridley of the New York Supreme court in the case of Benedict vs. Goit. Go to The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 at the Library of Congress American Memory site and "Search by Keyword." Use "plank road" as your keyword to locate this document.
• The Larrys Creek Plank Road (Lycoming County Historical Society, Williamsport, PA)
• Road Through the Wilderness, The Making of the National Road (Connor Prairie)
• The Story of the Watertown [Wisconsin] Plank Road (Watertown Historical Society)
• U.S. 80: Imperial Valley [California]: The Plank Road and Sand Hills (Historic California U.S. Highways site by Casey Cooper)

Settlement-Era Canals

• Canalway Ohio (Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor)
• Erie Canal Museum, Syracuse, NY
• History of the Erie Canal (Dept. of History, University of Rochester)
• Illinois & Michigan Canal State Trail Virtual Tour (Illinois Department of Natural Resources)
• National Canal Museum (Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museums, Easton, PA)
• New York State Canals (Erie Canal and others - Official Site)
• The Welland Canal Section of the St. Lawrence Seaway [PDF, Adobe Acrobat Required]

Updated 10/27/2005

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