History of Vasser, Tuscola County, Michigan

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TOWN OF VASSAR  

An act of legislature approved March 2, 1851, provided that township 11 north, of range 
8 east, and townships 11, 12, 13 and 14 north, of ranges 9, 10 and 11 east, be set off 
from the township of Tuscola, and organized into a separate town by the name of Vassar.
It will thus be seen that when first organized, Vassar covered an area of thirteen 
townships, but was relieved two years later by the organization of Indian Fields which 
took from it nine townships.

The present boundaries of Vassar are as follows: north by Denmark and Juniata; east by 
Fremont and Watertown; south by Millington and Tuscola, and west by Tuscola.  The Cass 
River runs in a southwesterly direction across the northwest corner of the township.

The territory of the town was enlarged and its boundaries slightly changed in 1865 by 
the annexation of two half sections from the township of Tuscola.  This was done to 
bring the village of Vassar wholly in Vassar Township.  This change was authorized by 
act of legislature approved March 9, 1865, which read as follows:  that the east half 
of sections 1 and 12 of the township of Tuscola, in the county of Tuscola, be and the 
same hereby is detached from the township of Tuscola, and is annexed to the said 
township of Vassar are hereby so changed as to include the said half sections above 
described.

Provided, That the said detached territory shall still be deemed a part of the township 
of Tuscola for the purpose of filling the quota of said township under the call of the 
president for volunteers made in December, 1864, and for the further purpose of paying 
all bounties heretofore pledged by said township to volunteers and remaining unpaid, 
and to these ends said territory shall be liable precisely as it would have been had 
this act not passed.

The settlement of the town has been confined almost wholly to the northwestern portion, 
in the vicinity of Vassar village.  The early history of the town is entirely comprised 
in that of the village.

  





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