Adam Stronach was an English

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who opened a settlement in

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, in the

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. The settlement was first called "Paggeotville" and was renamed Stronach, when Stronach and his brother John built a

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in 1841. David Stronach and his son Adam Stronach arrived to the area in a schooner through the

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