The most amazing rumor about this home was that it had a tunnel that went under the Kalamazoo River all the way to his paper mill, about two miles away.
The Erie & Kalamazoo was to connect Port Lawrence (now Toledo, Ohio) on Lake Erie to some point on the Kalamazoo River, which flows into Lake Michigan.
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The Michigan Central then stood at Kalamazoo, on the Kalamazoo River, while the Michigan Southern stood at Hillsdale, far to the east.
Beginning in the 1970s with the federal Clean Water Act, serious efforts were made to clean up the river.
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Milton Barney arrived from Lyons, New York the summer of 1832 to scout the area and returned that September with his family and workmen to settle on the south bank of the Kalamazoo River in Section 5.