The entire Saginaw Valley was inhabited by the warlike Sauks. However, around the year 1520, the Chippewas invaded the territory in great force, and in a series of battles the Sauks were virtually annihilated. The bloodiest of these battles was fought on what has since been known as Skull island in the Saginaw River and on a bluff on the Flint River about a mile from the present Village of Flushing. The boundaries of the County of Saginaw were set by proclamation of Governor Cass on September 10, 1822. These boundaries were subsequently changed by an act of the Legislative Council, approved, March 2, 1831.
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