The Hollanders and the Colony Report in the Grand River Eagle

A report on The Hollanders and the Colony, which appeared in the Grand River Eagle, p. 2., mainly from a Mr. J. Walker, an American school teacher in Zeeland. This gentleman\u27s students are mainly adults learning the English language. There is also a school using the Dutch language. The village of Zeeland contains 50 to 100 houses . The area is fast becoming a garden of the choicest kind. The colonists are a reading and writing people. When these people arrive, the first thing done is to buy a piece of land; the second is to commence chopping; the third to plant and make a fence, and lastly build a house.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1295/thumbnail.jp