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The Sheldon Inn is a two-story apartment building located at 44134 Michigan Avenue, in Sheldon Corners in Canton Township, Michigan. It was previously used as a single-family home and a travelers' inn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.〔 ==History== The Sheldon Inn was built by Timothy and Rachel Sheldon. The couple moved from Monroe County, New York, with all their possessions in a wagon. They had intended to settle further to the west, but when they camped for the night on the Chicago Road, two days from Detroit, they were impressed with the surrounding area and decided to settle there in Canton Township.〔 On June 6, 1825, the couple purchased near their overnight camping spot, including the property on which this building now sits. They were the third landowners in Sheldon Township, filing their claim only a week after the first two.〔 The Sheldons built a Greek Revival home on their land, and the building almost immediately became an inn, serving the influx of travellers and settlers spreading westward from Detroit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Sheldon Inn )〕 The Sheldons farmed the surrounding land, and soon the hamlet of Sheldon Corners grew around the inn.〔 Sheldon's Corners soon became a thriving community, helped in part by the 1829 establishment of South Territorial (now Geddes) Road, which began at Sheldon's Corners.〔 South Territorial was established by legislative act, reading in part:
In 1830, Timothy Sheldon became postmaster of the area's post office,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Sheldon's Corners Informational Designation )〕 and the next year, Rachel Sheldon purchased an additional adjacent to this property.〔 The hamlet eventually boasted a log schoolhouse, two general stores, two churches, a cemetery, a cobbler and three blacksmiths.〔〔 The Sheldons added a one-story wing to the house in the 1830s for an unmarried sister.〔 Timothy Sheldon served as a state legislator in 1839 and Director of the Poor in 1841 and 1845.〔 The ownership of the Sheldon Inn eventually passed to Charles Sines, Timothy Sheldon's nephew, who sold the house to Charles and Anne Morton c. 1890. The former Sheldon Inn is now a two-unit apartment building.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sheldon Inn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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