Suggested edit: Curtis Sherwood Pinney an original homesteader in the Jordan River Valley in Count Antrim Michigan. Curtis Pinney fought in the Civil War as part of the 154th NY Volunteers in Gettysburg and alongside his brother Chauncey who was shot and a POW. Curtis was with General Sherman in Savannah on his "March to the Sea".
He received a land patent in East Jordan MI for 160 acres in Section 34, just Northeast of the Pinney Bridge. Curtis had done some chopping down of big trees to prepare a place to build a log house the following spring. The home would be for the Pinney Family (Curtis, his wife Marian, Allison and his brothers Howard and Herman, his sister Laura, and their Grandmother Julia Pinney.
The Pinneys got off the train about four miles north of the present town of Alba MI (the location was known as Simons). Their homestead was about five and one half miles west. A trail or woods road connected the two locations. Settlers crossed the river on a pole bridge a few miles down the river from Deadman's Hill. The bridge became known as "Pinney Bridge," after the Curtis Sherwood family.
Often mis-spelled as "Penney Bridge," descendants of Pinney were successful in getting a road sign on Highway M-66 corrected to read "Pinney Bridge."https://www.ole.net/~maggie/antrim/pinney.htm
He received a land patent in East Jordan MI for 160 acres in Section 34, just Northeast of the Pinney Bridge. Curtis had done some chopping down of big trees to prepare a place to build a log house the following spring. The home would be for the Pinney Family (Curtis, his wife Marian, Allison and his brothers Howard and Herman, his sister Laura, and their Grandmother Julia Pinney.
The Pinneys got off the train about four miles north of the present town of Alba MI (the location was known as Simons). Their homestead was about five and one half miles west. A trail or woods road connected the two locations. Settlers crossed the river on a pole bridge a few miles down the river from Deadman's Hill. The bridge became known as "Pinney Bridge," after the Curtis Sherwood family.
Often mis-spelled as "Penney Bridge," descendants of Pinney were successful in getting a road sign on Highway M-66 corrected to read "Pinney Bridge."https://www.ole.net/~maggie/antrim/pinney.htm
Suggested edit: Curtis Sherwood Pinney an original homesteader in the Jordan River Valley in Count Antrim Michigan. Curtis Pinney fought in the Civil War as part of the 154th NY Volunteers in Gettysburg and alongside his brother Chauncey who was shot and a POW. Curtis was with General Sherman in Savannah on his "March to the Sea".
He received a land patent in East Jordan MI for 160 acres in Section 34, just Northeast of the Pinney Bridge. Curtis had done some chopping down of big trees to prepare a place to build a log house the following spring. The home would be for the Pinney Family (Curtis, his wife Marian, Allison and his brothers Howard and Herman, his sister Laura, and their Grandmother Julia Pinney.
The Pinneys got off the train about four miles north of the present town of Alba MI (the location was known as Simons). Their homestead was about five and one half miles west. A trail or woods road connected the two locations. Settlers crossed the river on a pole bridge a few miles down the river from Deadman's Hill. The bridge became known as "Pinney Bridge," after the Curtis Sherwood family.
Often mis-spelled as "Penney Bridge," descendants of Pinney were successful in getting a road sign on Highway M-66 corrected to read "Pinney Bridge."https://www.ole.net/~maggie/antrim/pinney.htm
He received a land patent in East Jordan MI for 160 acres in Section 34, just Northeast of the Pinney Bridge. Curtis had done some chopping down of big trees to prepare a place to build a log house the following spring. The home would be for the Pinney Family (Curtis, his wife Marian, Allison and his brothers Howard and Herman, his sister Laura, and their Grandmother Julia Pinney.
The Pinneys got off the train about four miles north of the present town of Alba MI (the location was known as Simons). Their homestead was about five and one half miles west. A trail or woods road connected the two locations. Settlers crossed the river on a pole bridge a few miles down the river from Deadman's Hill. The bridge became known as "Pinney Bridge," after the Curtis Sherwood family.
Often mis-spelled as "Penney Bridge," descendants of Pinney were successful in getting a road sign on Highway M-66 corrected to read "Pinney Bridge."https://www.ole.net/~maggie/antrim/pinney.htm
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