May's Island: From wilderness, to retail area, to local government center (The Gazette)

6 September 2008, 11:03 pm

"A stirring man with a headful of schemes." That's how an early historian described Col. John M. May.May had plans for several towns, and one of them, May's Island, was to be on the six heavily wooded acres he had surveyed and platted in the middle of the Red Cedar River.Today, May's Island is still here, but May wouldn't recognize it.May bought land on both sides of the river when he arrived in ...... read more

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