lace for
some time went by the name of "Bloody Corners." At one time the two
apartments of the little log house held fourteen men and twenty-one
women and children, divided into family groups by the simple expedient
of hanging blankets. In what seems now an incredibly short time life was
moving in organized channels. A store was opened in September, and
others soon followed; more buildings were erected; a physician or two
swelled the population; in a little over two years a county court was
established; and finally, in 1833, the village was incorporated.

For many years the little town was divided into two separate districts
by the Huron River, and a determined effort arose to make the section on
the north side the main business and residential quarter. This was not
to be; though the old business blocks still stand across the Broadway
bridge, and many of the finer homes of that period, now falling into
decay, remain on the hills along the turnpikes to Plymouth and Pontiac.

It was probably not until the location of the University was fixed that
the center of Ann Arbor's population began, very slowly at first, to
turn to the south and east, and mounted the slopes of the hill upon
which the University stands. Certain it is that for years the Campus
was practically in the country, and only gradually did the dwellings of
the townspeople rise in the neighborhood. Aside from the University
there was nothing east of State Street, except an old burying ground and
one dwelling, occupied by the ubiquitous Pat Kelly, whose freedom of the
agricultural privileges of the Campus made him quite as important a
financial factor of the community as the members of the Faculty he
served.

To the north was a district known as the "commons." Professor Ten Brook
tells how he was accustomed every Sunday morning on his way to church in
lower town, to strike across this open place to the ravine just west of
the present hospital buildings up which Glen Avenue now passes. Coming
out on Fuller Street, the river road, he passed the old Kellogg
farmhouse, the only home until within a few blocks of the church across
the river. Lower town was but little smaller then than in these days; it
had its own schools as well as churches and when Ann Arbor received a
city charter in 1851 it held aloof for some time. The original
settlement about the Court-House Square extended no further to the west
than Allen's Creek for many years, while there was little to t