Manlius, Michigan
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member theHostas
N 42° 38.878 W 086° 06.310
16T E 573351 N 4722111
A Town Hall located in Michigan.
Waymark Code: WM12QNT
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 07/03/2020
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member fi67
Views: 1

Manlius Town Hall is located Michigan on 57th Street. The is sided all white with white trim. The front faces East and has a facade that gives an appearance of a flat roof but all the roofs are peaked with asphalt shingles.
Taken from Wikipedia:"Manlius Township is a civil township of Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,017 at the 2010 census.[3]
History
A post to trade with the local Ottawa people was established by a man named Campau here in 1825. The township was established in 1839.[4]
Communities
The city of Fennville is at the southwest corner of the township, but is administratively autonomous.
New Richmond is an unincorporated community within the township at 42°38'52?N 86°06'20?W near where Old Allegan Road and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway cross the Kalamazoo River. It is about a mile west of where the Rabbit River flows into the Kalamazoo.[5] In 1836, three eastern investors, led by John Allen of Ann Arbor, arranged to found a city here. Allen platted the village of "Richmond", after his home town of Richmond, Virginia. The village was platted covering all of section 8 and the eastern half of section 7, just a bit north and west of the present location. Some land was cleared, a general store and some houses were built, and in November 1837, a post office opened named "Richmond". However, the office closed in October 1839, after Allen's business venture failed in 1838 due to financial depression following the Panic of 1837. Ralph R. Mann, who had been hired by Allen to direct improvements at Richmond, in 1844 moved to a location to the south of the first site and built a water-powered sawmill on the river. This settlement became known as "Manlius", and a post office opened in July 1846. It is said to be named after Manlius, New York. It was for a while a station on the Chicago and West Michigan Railway, but was mostly abandoned in 1874 after the destruction of the mill's dam and the local tavern burned down. With the coming of the railroad, H. F. Marsh laid out a new village of Richmond near the older site, which prospered and after a time supplanted Manlius. In October 1872, the post office was closed in Manlius and another was established named "New Richmond". After a time, the settlement also came to be known as "New Richmond".[6][7]
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.9 square miles (93.1 km2), of which 35.2 square miles (91.1 km2) is land and 0.77 square miles (2.0 km2), or 2.14%, is water.[3]"
Name: Manlius Town Hall

Address:
3134 57th Street
Fennville, MI United States
49408


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