Cities, Towns, Villages and
designated Post Offices:If you have any stories to tell
or history to relate of any of these cities, towns and villages
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- Amelith - 1900 Post Office; population 60 in 1910
- Arenac - 1870 Post Office
- Arn - east of Bay City on the M.C. Railroad; RFD Munger
- Auburn - Henry Baldwin, J. Curve, Johnston Kent and
William Spicer were the first pioneers to this village; J.
Southerland and Ira Swarts were the first store owners.
- Au Gres - 1870 Post Office
- Banks - in West Bay City, platted by Joseph Tromble'
(Trombley) in 1851; received a Post Office in 1865; incorporated
as a village 15 April 1871 - situated in Bangor Township;
Joseph Marchand, post master (1877); listed as a Post Office until
1890 after which time it became part of Bay City
- Bay City - County Seat
- Bayside - Bangor township on Saginaw Bay; RFD Bay
City
- Beaver
- Bedell - five miles from Bay City, 3 from Kawkawlin;
RFD Auburn
- Bentley - Post Office 1890; Gibson Township on the M.
(Michigan) C. (Central) Railroad
- Bertie - in 1910 the population was 12, P.O. Pinconning
- Brooks - on the Grand Trunk R.R.
- Colden - Post Office 1897; Williams Township, 14 miles
west of Bay City
- Colfax - Post Office 1897-1918
- Crump - Garfield Township; west of Linwood on the M.C.
Railroad
- Cummins - Post Office 1897 - 1902 in Fraser Township;
RFD Linwood
- Dolsenville - north of Woodside Avenue in Bay
City
- Duel - Post Office in 1897; RFD Auburn
- Essexville - founded by Joseph Hudson (who married
Fedilia D. Essex) and Ransom P. Essex; Post Office in 1872;
it was incorporated in February of 1883
- Fisherville - 13 miles west of Bay City on the M.C.
Railroad
- Flajole - east of Fisherville on the M.C. Railroad
- Garfield - Post Office in 1900
- Glencoe - settled 1873; ;Post Office
- Glover - Post Office 1900; discontinued P.O. in 1918 -
RFD Bentley
- Hamblen - Post Office in 1890 and 1902; RFD Auburn
- Kawkawlin - in 1855 the settlement had two mills
(Frederick A. Kaiser steam mill and the O.A. Ballou and Company
water mill), 5 cottages, 2 log huts, and several Indian wigwams; a
Post Office was established in 1868
- Laredo - Post Office 1893; RFD Auburn
- Lengsville - Post Office 1893; Fraser Township
- Linwood
- Loehne - 14 miles northwest of Bay City and 8 miles
from Kawkawlin; Post Office in May, 1897
- Maxwell - Fraser Township, 15 miles north of Bay City,
4 miles from Pinconning; settled in 1870
- Michie -
This village in Fraser Township was
named for William Michie, pioneer of the area and first
supervisor of the township. He became first postmaster of
Michie on December 20, 1880, the office operated until October
15, 1904. Michie was located at the junction of State Road and
the D & M Railroad, near the Michigan Central Line. Several
shingle mills were established in that area - a school, saloon
and a hotel called the Royal Oak House making this a bustling
place in its heyday. (Courtesy of Norma Campbell).
- Monitor - Post Office in 1897; stop on the M.C.
Railroad, 7 miles west of Bay City; P.O. Auburn
- Mount Forest - Post Office in 1890; 1905 population is
50; 18 miles northwest of Bay City and 12 miles from Standish
- Munger
- North Williams - last listed as a post office in 1893
- Pinconning - Chippewa name for the river near the
settlement: O-pic-nic-con-ing, meaning potato place, as there were
many wild potatoes growing there
- Portsmouth - listed as a Post Office in 1890
- Quanicassee
- Saganing
- Salzburg - named after Salzburg, Austria; settled in
1862; Post Office in 1875; Bangor Township 1 mile southwest of Bay
City; lumber and salt manufacturing village
- Seidler
- Skinner - 1870 Post Office; Williams Township west of
Bay City
- State Road - see Maxwell or Michie; also known
as State Road Crossing
- Tebo - discontinued Post Office; RFD Pinconning
- Tobico - on the D.(Detroit) & M. (Mackinac[w])
Railroad; mail to Bay City
- Wenona - named after the mother of Hiawatha in
Longfellow's poem; incorporated in May of 1866; became part of
West Bay City in 1877 ; had the largest sawmill in the state -
W.H. Sage & Co.
- White Feather - settled in 1872, 1877 Post
Office; station on the M.C. Railroad
- Willard
- Woodville
Organization of Bay County
Townships
(courtesy of Don
Dolsen):
| Year of Organization |
Township Name |
| 1843 |
Hampton |
| 1857 |
Bangor |
| 1859 |
Portsmouth |
| 1867 |
Beaver |
| 1868 |
Kawkawlin |
| 1869 |
Monitor |
| 1871 |
Merritt |
| 1873 |
Pinconning |
| 1875 |
Fraser |
| 1881 |
Frankenlust |
| 1885 |
Williams |
| 1889 |
Garfield |
| 1889 |
Gibson |
| 1890 |
Mt. Forest |
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