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Excerpt from Early Annals of Whitewater: 1837-1867 I have also been led to make these communications that those who have come among us at a later day may know what has been done by those noblemen who first pitched their tents in this then wilderness, and that the minds of some who seem disposed to think those early settlers cared little for the graces and arts of civilization - that they, the founders and builders, took no heed for the superstructure that it should be at once strong and beautiful and pleasant to the sight - may be disabused of their erroneous impressions, and may know them for what they were, a band of energetic, noble, strong-hearted men and women, ever ready to work for public as well as private good. No one but he who has from the first kept pace with the steady march of progress and improvement, can fully realize what or how much has been done, or how great is the contrast between Whitewater as it was and is - between the Whitewater of eighteen hundred and thirty-six and the Whitewater of to-day. The Region in 1836 - Then, in all the wide circuit of country which now comprises the thickly settled towns of Whitewater, Lima, Richmond, LaGrange, Palmyra, Hebron, and Cold Spring, not a solitary white inhabitant could be found; the red man, the true "Native American," then reigned sole possessor of the land. The forests, swept clear of the rubbish of the year by the annual fires kindled in the red man's path, were as destitute of any undergrowth of shrubs as the most carefully kept park, and presented to the eye of the beholder an unobstructed and extended range of vision, ever opening to his view delights and fresh beauties. No sound of the axe had then invaded these solitudes, no plough had turned the virgin soil, but delicately tinted flowers bloomed where now are seen smiling fields of nodding grain or rustling corn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.