The present meeting place of this community working organization is 37 ½ North Saginaw Street. Chief Pontiac Post #377 was organized two years ago, largely through the efforts of its present commander, Charles Thompson.
(From this point, the article goes on to tell of the many changes of title, then to the Post). Colonel Mack deeded it to his company on November 12, 1818, before there was even a log house on the settlement.
He was organizing the Pontiac Company, composed largely of Detroitmen, for the purpose of establishing a settlement where the Saginaw Indian Trail crossed the Clinton River. The Abstract of title delivered by the Hibner heirs show the property was first deeded by the United States government to Stephen Mack, who founded Pontiac. The property has several fine trees, most of which will be preserved when the new home is constructed. The old frame house built about a hundred years ago soon will be torn down to make way for the Post’s new building, the construction of which is dependent wholly on the material supply. It is centrally located, being less than a block from the post office. The Hibner property at 85 Mount Clemens Street, Opposite UAW-CIA Headquarters, bought by them for $7500 has a frontage of eighty feet on the street and runs back 350 feet. No other parcels of land in the in the entire city can show an earlier date in its records. The new home of Chief Pontiac Post #377 of the American Legion will stand on historic ground.
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