Long before Dexter was a community, the area now occupied by downtown was nothing but wilderness. Delaware and Shawnee Indians made their home near this wilderness for a short time from the late 1700s until 1829. Within a few years after the last Native Americans...
A Glimpse of the Past We are indebted to Mrs. Veda Ladd Oliver for her writing of the history of Dexter. The town had been in existence a little over 50 years at the time she wrote her story. Her information source included people who were actually present at the sale...
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