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Alvah N. Belding Memorial Library† 302 East Main Street Belding: June 10, 1980: Belding City Hall: 120 Pleasant Street Belding: 2012: Belrockton Dormitory: 108 Hanover Street Belding: May 10, 1990: John C. Blanchard House† 253 East Main Street Ionia: May 17, 1973: L. Phillip and Bertha Brock House: 409 Union Street Ionia: January 19, 1989 ...
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In 1838, six years before John Green came to the area that later would bear his name, Levi Broas, Belding's first settler, arrived in the area. The community first was known as Broas Rapids, later Patterson Mills and even, during logging days, as Hog Wallow. The name Belding was chosen in 1871 to honor the Belding family. [4]
In 1886, Belding Brothers returned to Belding and constructed this mill, designated Mill #1. However, soon after completing the building, they had doubts about the success of the venture and sold it to George Richardson of Chicago, Illinois , who had previously worked for Belding Brothers as an office manager.
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Gibson was founded by Joshua Hall in Belding, Michigan, in 1877 as the Belding-Hall Company selling cabinets that housed blocks of ice . The area around Belding, Michigan, had a skilled workforce of Danish craftsmen and a good supply of hardwoods including ash .
Cooks Corners is the location of an early settlement in the township at 4] near the junction of M-44 and M-91 just west of Belding Smyrna is an unincorporated community at 43°03′34″N 85°15′46″W / 43.05944°N 85.26278°W / 43.05944; -85.26278 , a few miles southwest of Belding near mouth of the Seely Creek on the Flat
Hiram Belding and Mary Wilson Belding moved from Ashfield, Massachusetts to a farmstead in what is now Belding in 1855. With them was their 17-year-old son, Alvah N. Belding. They were soon joined by Alvah's brother Hiram. However, farming proved unprofitable, and in 1857 the Belding brothers began a trade selling silk thread to nearby settlers.