BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY

 "SURROUNDING MEXICO CORNER ON EACH SIDE ARE CHOICE FARMS, THE BEST FARMING VALLEY IN THE STATE," IT WAS REPORTED, "THE QUALITY OF ITS INTERVALE, WITH AMPLE STORAGE, WOOD AND TIMBER, GIVES THE 17 MILES RIVER LANDS AND AREA, BEAUTY AND VALUE THAT CANNOT BE EXCEEDED.

"HOWEVER - THERE IS TOO MUCH POLITICS, TOO LITTLE RELIGION, TOO MUCH LUMBERING, TOO LITTLE ATTENTION TO THE FARM, TOO FEW HORSES AND TOO FEW NICE OXEN AND STEER, COWS AND SHEEP.  TOO MANY CIDER APPLES AND TOO LITTLE CHOICE OF FRUIT.  IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT FARMERS TRY PLANTING A GREAT VARIETY OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES, ESPECIALLY BETTER APPLE TREES."

SO MEXICO CAME TO THE END OF THE 1800'S. MANY OF THE FAMILIES LIVING IN MEXICO TODAY ARE DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF THE EARLY SETTLERS MENTIONED HERE.  THEY ARE PROUD OF THEIR TOWN AND THEIR HERITAGE AND THEIR HARDY FOREFATHERS WHO WRESTED FROM THE WILDERNESS AND PLACE THEY KNOW AS HOME.

THERE ARE MANY QUESTIONS AND LOOPHOLES IN OUR TOWN'S HISTORY:  WHEN WAS "THAT FIRE" THAT DESTROYED PART OF MEXICO CORNER?  HOW BIG A FIRE WAS IT REALLY?  WHO LOST HOMES AND BUSINESS IN IT?  THE STORIES ARE VARIED THESE YEARS.

WHAT IS THE STORY BEHIND THE LONG AGO MURDER OF DENNIS HATCH?
WHERE WERE THE LIVERY STABLES, THE TAVERNS, THAT FIRST POST OFFICE MENTIONED?

THERE IS NO END TO A TOWN'S HISTORY.  THIS, THEN IS THE BEGINNING OF OURS, OF HOW MEXICO STARTED AND DEVELOPED.