Scales´ Prairie

Scales´ Prairie is a Michigan historical marker in Thornapple Township, Barry County, dedicated 2023.

Barry County · dedicated 2023 · Adams Roads, Thornapple Township

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In 1834 Louis Moran, member of a French family prominent in Detroit since the mid-1700s, purchased land here and opened a log tavern and trading post. An Indian settlement called Middle Village was nearby, on the trail from Gull Prairie to Grand Rapids. Moran moved to Grand Rapids about 1837 and his interests were taken over by nineteen-year-old Robert Scales of Kentucky. Since then the area has been known as Scales’s Prairie although its namesake departed after a ten-year residence.

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Scales´ Prairie

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