Firsts of Meeker County
…gigantic proportions in the South, and while congratulating ourselves that men and money were all that would be expected of us, and that we were fortunately far removed from bloody scenes, an Indian war of savage ferocity suddenly burst over our heads, and came near to our total extinguishment. Between a depletion of men for the South, and self-defense on the frontier there were few in Meeker County to indulge an idle hour. The summer of 1856, Benjamin Dorman commenced the first farming operations, by breaking the prairie sod. Morris Powers as the first to follow suit. Powers died the…
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