Midland Her Continuing Story

Once A Small Settlement At The Junction Of The Tittabawassee And Chippewa Rivers, Midland Began As A Humble Community And Grew To Become A Testament To Industrialization. Settlers Populated The City And Ambitiously Founded A Tiny Lumbering Village, Which Soon Developed Into A Regional Hub Of The Lumbering Industry. Nearly A Century After It Was Settled, Midland County Experienced An Oil Boom, And Consequently Became The States Leader In Oil Production, Bringing Prosperity And Further Industrialization To The Their Previous Book, Midland: The Way We Were, Virginia Florey And Leona Seamster Documented The Significant People And Places That Have Shaped Midlands Rich History.