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Green Charter Township is a charter township of Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census , the township population was 3,219. [ 2 ] The township was organized in 1858, before Mecosta County was detached from Newaygo County .
Hillman is a village located mostly in neighboring Hillman Township in Montmorency County. While the village encompasses a total area of 1.70 square miles (4.40 km 2) and a population of 701, only a very small portion of 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) and four residents are within Green Township. [6]
The Great Michigan Fire was a series of simultaneous forest fires in the state of Michigan in the United States in 1871. [1] They were possibly caused (or at least reinforced) by the same winds that fanned the Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire and the Port Huron Fire; some believe lightning or even meteor showers may have started the fires. [2]
A fire on May 26, 1879, destroyed a large portion of the village, including records of Green Township. [4] [5] The Paris ZIP code, 49338, serves the northwest portion of Green Township. [6] Paris Park, at the northern edge of the community, was the site of the second fish hatchery in the state of Michigan.
The following is a list of National Register of Historic Places listings in Lenawee County, in the U.S. state of Michigan. Broken off from the western portion of Monroe County in 1826, Lenawee County was the eighth county formally organized in the Michigan Territory (later the state of Michigan in 1837). With an estimated population at ...
Michigan is home to lights on four of the Great Lakes, Lake St. Clair and connecting waterways. The first lighthouse in the state, Fort Gratiot Light, was erected in 1825. It is still active. [1] The Michigan.gov website does not have a Map of Michigan Lighthouses in PDF format anymore.
In 1848, Flagg was elected to a one-year term as mayor; he was later a member of the city council (1865-1870) and secretary-treasurer of the local railroad. Flagg died in 1872 and the home was sold.
Historic view of the community. Grawn was founded in the 1870s as Blackwood after its first settler, James B. Blackwood. [3] The Chicago and West Michigan Railway was built through Blackwood in 1890, [4] and the village was renamed to Grawn Station, after Charles T. Grawn, the former superintendent of Central Michigan Normal School, and later the superintendent of Traverse City Area Public ...