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Mason County History CompanionOld Places Familiar Faces |
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Ghost Towns and Place names
Abbott
Founded by W.H. Perring
Adamsville PO aka Fern
1879 Consisted of a Sawmill employing 25 men. Founded by Joseph Adam of Hart and located near the county line south of Custer.
Amber Corners
Amber or Slaughtburg
1867 Train stop, Land was owned by August Miller
Bachellor or Batcheller
PO aka Turtle
1884 located at the railroad crossing west of
Big Sable aka Hamlin
Bird Settlement or Rayne’s Corner PO aka
Black Creek – originally south of present day Custer which it became after 2 moves
Bloody Run – East of Freesoil
Aka Dead Horse Marsh aka Push Hill aka Jack Balls Ridge aka High Rollaway-Keiseis Cut aka Rattlesnake Rollaway
Buttersville
1887 –1907
Canada Corners-Wilson and South Custer crossroads
Carr Settlement or McCumber
Settlement
1900-1907
Chapple Corners
1874-1891 Edmund Chambers
Collinsburg
Located 3 miles north of Freesoil and was built up around a sawmill
Creamery Corners – Amber Township Nels Jensen farm ?
Custer
1882-1884 Fredrick King
Elm Flats-
1860-1876 Wm
Fern
1888-1907 intersection
of Custer and
Ferryville aka Black Creek aka Custer
Fountain
Freesoil Mills, Freeman Mills or
Gurnee
1855 Charles Freeman PM 1860 discontinued
Freesoil
German Settlement-
1868-1871 Rueben Smith PM
Named after Luther Gunn
Haire’s Rollaway
Hamlin aka Big Sable
Herrickville
A Mill near the south bank of he PM river south of Custer
Indian Crossing-
Indiantown
1865 then
Herrickville
Just west of Scottville on the Carter farm
Kistler’s Corners
LaBelle’s Landing –
LaCarp
1873-1875 William Barnhart was postmaster
Little Sable – Lincoln PO previously known as Black Creek
1855-1861 – Charles Mears first postmaster last was George B Elms
Point Sable
1879-1887 postmaster John R Cook
Manistee Junction PO aka Merritt
Located where the Manistee spike led off from the main east west line of the PM RR
Marble
Located near Darr and
John B Marsh 1880-1889 PM
John Tracy 1889-1889 PM
Samuel Noyes 1890-1890 PM
McCumber Settlement aka Carr
Corner of Meisenheimer and US 31
Merritt aka Manistee Junction
Milleton
Located where the Manistee and Grand
Rapids RR crossed the North Branch of the
SD Squire PM 1898
Sara Bortz
Richard Cunningham
Hugh B Cunningham 1915 PM
Paulson
Located at the intersection of
Rasmus Lykkeby PM 1886
Ken Pedersen PM 1902
Paxton’s Crossing aka Poff’s Crossing Fountain area
Pelton,s Corners-
Pere Marquette PO 1855-1864 name change to Ludington
Located at the foot of
George W. Ford PM 1855
John Sedan PM
Ephram Hildreth PM 1864
River
Riverton
John Saltzgoodon PM 1865
Lucius Hawley PM
Oscar Compton PM
James Wilson 1882 PM
Seatonville
Sheepdale
Siddons
Located in section 26 of
Will Freeman PM 1882
Squireville
Located just west of Buck’s Corners
Emma M Squire PM 1895
General Store and Blacksmith Shop
Sugar Grove
Closed 1901 located in his store.
Stephen Darke PM
Swedish Settlement – 3.5 miles north of Branch
Sweetland aka
Scottville aka
Tallman aka Wever
Located Buttersville Penninsula
Telephone Rd Branch
Telegraph Road Branch
Victory Corners aka
Walhalla PO 1879 aka Butters Junction aka Merrit
Just north of present Walhalla
Weldon Creek
Wesley
Lewis W Rose PM Located in his General Store corner of US 31
and
Wever aka Tallman
The name was changed because there was already a town in
Wiley
John F Genter PM
Located at the intersection of Scottville and
Woodburn
Located 3 miles south of Adamsville in General Store
Charles Brown PM
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