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In 1860, Sterne Brunson, Henry C. Morton
and Charles Hull developed this site on the banks of the St. Joseph
River in Berrien County by building a canal from it to the harbor. Three
years later, they platted a village, calling it Brunson Harbor. It was
renamed for Thomas Hart Benton, a Missouri senator credited with
supporting Michigan's 1835-36 plea to become a state.
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