Over one hundred and fifty years ago, a young New Yorker named Horace Blackman, a frontiersman from Ann Arbor and a Pottawattomie Indian guide, camped on the west bank of the Grand River at the intersection of what is now Jackson Street and Trail Street in the city of Jackson, Michigan.
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On July 6, 1854, one hundred and fifty years ago, Jackson, Michigan hosted a major event in United States history, the founding of the Republican Party "Under the Oaks" at Franklin and Second Streets.
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