Of Dixboro Lest We Forget Author:Carol Willits Freeman In 1824, Captain John Dix, a retired ship captain from the Eastern Seaboard, arrived in Washtenaw County and purchased about 450 acres of land in Ypsilanti Township, at a cost of $1.25 per acre. A portion of the land (legally known as Section Eighteen, Township Two in the District of Detroit and Territory of Michigan) would one day become the V... more »illage of Dixboro.« less