Barry County MI Archives Photo Place.....Barryville Historic Marker June 19, 2009
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MICHIGAN REGISTERED HISTORIC SITE

BARRYVILLE

THIS VILLAGE WAS SETTLED IN THE MID-NINETEENTH  CENTURY, AND IN 1857 A POST 
OFFICE WAS OPENED. BY 1860, A TOWN OF SEVERAL BLOCKS WAS ESTABLISHED, AND THE 
BUSINESSES INCLUDED A GRISTMILL, HOTEL, AND SASH FACTORY. THE GRISTMILL, RUN BY 
MELATIAH J. LATHROP, WAS THE PRINCIPAL INDUSTRY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. THE 
GRAND RIVER VALLEY RAILROAD BYPASSED BARRYVILLE IN 1869, AND SOON POPULATION 
DECLINED. ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE LIVED HERE IN THE EARLY 1870S, BUT BY THE NEXT 
DECADE ONLY FIFTEEN REMAINED. THE MILL OPERATED UNTIL THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.

MICHIGAN HISTORICAL COMMISION REGISTERED LOCAL SITE NO. 86
PROPERTY OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN
1970

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