Butman Township was, in its early days, one of the busiest places in the county – it even had a railroad before the city of Gladwin did. By the 1890s, however, logging was winding down. Farmers had moved in, stumped the land, and farming began to take over as the county’s leading industry.Among these settlers, many were Germanic families, often from regions east of what we now consid...
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