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"175 years" — a Michigan birthday

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Lake Orion Review, 2005

The number is real, the state is wrong: the claim belongs to Lakeville, Michigan. The carrier, fetched whole: the Lake Orion Review's "175th anniversary of Lakeville's first settler" (2005) — "Exactly 175 years ago, the first settler laid down roots in what is now known as the Village of Lakeville", the settler Sherman Hopkins, 1830, sourced in the article to Barbara Stafford's The Addison Album (2000), with proclamations to Addison Township officials and Michigan officeholders, and the article's own honesty: the plat is dated 24 May 1840, "so technically the village is actually turning 165 this year." That is the Village of Lakeville, Addison Township, Oakland County, Michigan. No Indiana carrier for a Lakeville "175 years" was found; the negative for Indiana prints with the Michigan evidence attached, so the number, wherever it is met, has its home named.

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Source: "175 years" — a Michigan birthday, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/stories-told/175-years-a-michigan-birthday/