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- From: califchief@xxxxxxxxxxx (Califchief)
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:45:00 -0400
Hell, Michigan USA 48169
The History of Hell Michigan
Hell was first settled in 1838 by George Reeves and his family.
George had a wife and 7 daughters - no reason to call it Hell
yet - George built a mill and a general store on the banks of
a river that is now known as Hell Creek...
The mill would grind the local farmers grain into flour; George
also ran a whiskey still, so a lot of times the first 7-10 bushels
of grain became moonshine.
In turn, horses would come home without riders, wagons without
drivers. Someone would say to the wife, where is your husband?
She'd shrug her shoulders, throw up her arms and exclaim, "Ahh,
he's gone to Hell!"
In 1841 when the State of Michigan came by, and asked George
what he wanted to name his town, he replied, "Call it Hell for
all I care, everyone else does." So the official date of
becoming Hell was October 13, 1841...
.... Where do people in hell tell each other to go?
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