Editing Hillsdale County, Michigan (section)

==History==
The county is named for its rolling terrain.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA157|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|publisher=Govt. Print. Off.|author=Gannett, Henry|year=1905|page=157}}</ref> It was described by action of the [[Michigan Territory|Michigan Territorial]] legislature in 1829, and was organized six years later.<ref name=clarke>{{cite web|url=https://www.cmich.edu/library/clarke/AccessMaterials/Bibliographies/MichiganLocalHistory/Pages/hillsdale.aspx|publisher=Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University|title=Bibliography on Hillsdale County|access-date=January 19, 2013}}</ref> ''See'' [[List of Michigan county name etymologies]].

Hillsdale County was a [[New England]] settlement; its early settlers came from the northern coastal colonies – "[[Yankee]]s", descended from the [[English American|English]] [[Puritans]] who emigrated from the Old World in the 1600s. There was a wave of such settlers into the [[Northwest Territory]] during the early 1800s, many traveling on the newly completed [[Erie Canal]], and made safe by the conclusion of the [[Black Hawk War]]. They brought with them a passion for education, establishing many schools. Many were [[Abolitionism|abolitionists]].<ref>The Expansion of New England: The Spread of New England Settlement and Institutions to the Mississippi River, 1620-1865. Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry, Houghton Mifflin, 1909. pp. 227-8</ref>