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Prior to the declaration of World War II on Dec. 7, 1941, several hundred families left the Howell, Hamburg, and Toonerville communities after the government purchased approximately eighteen thousand acres to build a plant to manufacture TNT for the war, forcing the removal of homes, schools, churches, businesses, and farms, and expressing to past, present, and future generations a heartfelt wish for peace.
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