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SKETCHES OF PARIS
CHAPTER III.
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A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE OF
PARIS IN 1805.
There was at that time some seventy-five or
eighty buildings situated in the following
manner; Commencing upon the north side
of Houston, where the handsome residence of
C. S. Brent. Sen., now stands,
was a double one-story log building, the
residence of Jas. McCormick.
Crossing Houston, we find some three or four
dilapidated log cabins in the hollow, at the
foot of High street. Coming up the
hill, on the west side of teh same street
was teh old building that is still standing
just below the residence of Dr. L. D.
Barnes; it was then the residence of
Wm. Cleveland.
Exactly where the residence of Dr. Barnes
and the Episcopal Church now stands were
situated three one-story buildings, two of
them were log and one was stone. They
were all occupied by Frederick Loring
as a residence and tailoring establishment.
Then
Returning to the few log cabins in the
bottom near the spring, we take up the early
growth of Paris. As soon as the town
was laid off by Mr. Protzman, and
recognized by the Legislature of
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