VILLAGE OF AKRON, Akron Township, Tuscola County, Michigan

Copyright © 1998 by Sherrye L. Woodworth. This copy contributed for use in 
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VILLAGE OF AKRON

Contributed by Sherrye L. Woodworth. Extracted from History of Tuscola and 
Bay Counties, Mich., H.R. Page and Co., Chicago, 1883, page 129. 


The village, lying in the southern part of the town on its southern line, is 
but little more than a year old, dating from its first business enterprise. 
It is a result of the new railroad, the Saginaw, Tuscola, & Huron. In the 
spring of 1882 G.W. Crane selected this as a desirable point for trade and 
built a store on the Fair Grove side of the line. Since then have been added 
Simmons & Young's store, J.A. Liken & Co., lumber and stavebolt mill, Charles
 Dowker's saw-mill, the cheese box factory of Mallory & Stetson, six 
dwelling-houses, and one in course of construction. Timber is being framed 
for a blacksmith and wagon shop. The village was platted in 1882 by Samuel 
Lynn. 

Akron postoffice was first established at the house of Samuel B. Covey in 
section 1, with Mr. Covey as postmaster. The first year of the war it was 
moved to the house of Lucius Waldo, about seven miles southwest of Unionville
, who was appointed postmaster. In the fall of 1882 it was moved to Akron 
village, or Beach's Corners, with George Simmons as postmaster. 
 

Sherrye L. Woodworth
Copyright February 1998


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