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Family Settles on land Now Covered by Emigrant Lake

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One-hundred-sixty years ago, on April 14, 1853, three teenaged girls and their mother arrived at their new home south of today’s Ashland. They were the first white women to settle at the southern end of the Bear Creek Valley.

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Amy Couture