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Mar 18, 2024 · Wisconsin would get the Ann Arbor land to recoup its investments in the Michigan location. Normally, the property would revert to the Missouri Synod, a Lutheran denomination that operates the...
May 19, 2024 · ANN ARBOR, MI — American pioneers John Allen and Elisha Rumsey stumbled upon lands already inhabited when they founded Ann Arbor 200 years ago, buying hundreds of acres from the federal...
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But then his fellow physician, Samuel Denton, member of the Ann Arbor Land Company, moved an amendment—to substitute the Rumsey property for the Nowland property. When the vote was taken, it was six to five in favor of the Rumsey land. The three Ann Arborites split—Denton and Mundy for Rumsey, Governor Mason for Nowland.
Two large purchases east of the original village were made by the Ann Arbor Land Company in the 1830s. The company gave forty acres to lure the young U-M here from Detroit, counting on its presence to increase the value of the company's remaining holdings.
South of the river, many of the houses still standing were built by the other group of developers operating in 1837: the Ann Arbor Land Company. Many of its members' names—Thayer, Ingalls, Maynard, Thompson—are familiar to us as the names of streets around the campus.
Ann Arbor became the seat of Washtenaw County in 1827 and was incorporated as a village in 1833. The Ann Arbor Land Company, a group of speculators, set aside 40 acres (16 ha) of undeveloped land and offered it to the state of Michigan as the site of the state capitol, but lost the bid to Lansing.
Jan 12, 2024 · Arbor South: Transformative 20-Acre Mixed-Use Development Coming to Ann Arbor’s South Side. Oxford Companies January 12, 2024 New Development, News. “Arbor South” will bring 1,000 residential units to an under-served housing market, among retail, office, entertainment and hospitality uses.
