BLENDON LANDING by Adolphus Smith

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 7, 1868

BLENDON LANDING

By Adolphus Smith

Is a steamboat landing on Grand River, fourteen miles below Grand Rapids; it is also the terminus of the Blendon Lumber Company's railroad, on which is run an old locomotive known as the St. Joseph. The country about here is comparatively new, and the soil of excellent quality. About sixty acres here at the landing have been laid out in village lots: about a dozen good buildings have been erected, several of which with the lots on which they stand are for sale cheap.

But for nothing can I so well recommend this place as for its natural advantages for brick-making. There is a level piece of ground containing one-half, or three-fourths of an acre situated at the mouth of a deep ravine, through which flows a living stream of water, which could be easily dammed so as to furnish an abundance of water at hand for all brick-making purposes. On either side of this stream are high clay bluffs, from which the clay could be brought down to the yard on wheelbarrows. The yard being bounded on one side by the river, bricks could be easily shipped on barges to any point on the river, or to any port on the lakes.

A small church of Sabbath-keepers has been organized here, and we are in need of help; it is in the spiritual interests of this church that the above sketch has been written. If any brother can see in the above a pecuniary interest, and above all an opportunity to glorify God, let him lay the matter before the Lord in prayer, who approving, let him come immediately and explore the field, or communicate with us by letter.

ADOLPHUS SMITH.

Blendon, Ottawa Co., Mich.