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Although the majority of early Kalamazoo County settlers came from New York, a significant number arrived from the south. Among these was Bazel Harrison, who led the first party of white settlers in the county. Harrison was born in Maryland in 1771.
Bazel, a Maryland native, was Kalamazoo County's first white settler. In the fall of 1828, at the age of fifty-seven, he led an entourage of men, women, children, pigs and sheep to Prairie Ronde, a 14,000-acre Michigan grassland.
The first white settler of the county was a man named Bazel Harrison, cousin of U.S. President William Henry Harrison. Harrison traveled to Kalamazoo County in late 1828 and built his home on the shores of a small lake 3 miles northwest of what is now Schoolcraft.
Bronson went back to Tallmadge with his family, but soon ventured out alone, returning briefly to Ann Arbor, then following an old Indian trail west to become the first white settler in Kalamazoo. He arrived here on 21 June 1829.
Michigan Pioneer Reports. A Brief History of the County from the 1876 Meeting. History of Kalamazoo County. by George Torry. The first settlement of Kalamazoo county dates back to 1828.
Bazel and Martha Harrison are buried in the Harrison cemetery south of this marker. He led a party of 21 who were the first permanent settlers on Prarie Ronde Kalamazoo County, where they arrived on November 5, 1828.
