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THE QUESTIONS: This is the first of a series on Macomb County’s mills entitled “Our Mills and How They Worked.” Dr. Benjamin Southerland and his wife Phoebe lived just east of Romeo in a settlement that no longer exists. This “village” was very important in the mills of Macomb. Where was the settlement? What happened to it? What was it like?

THE QUESTIONS: This is the first of a series on Macomb County’s mills entitled “Our Mills and How They Worked.” Dr. Benjamin Southerland and his wife Phoebe lived just east of Romeo in a settlement that no longer exists. This “village” was very important in the mills of Macomb. Where was the settlement? What happened to it? What was it like?