Attractions

Deer Acres Storybook Amusement Park

Businesses

Target.com

Verizon Wireless

Wal-Mart

Exploring our Heritage through our Ancestors

Theodore Lillotte, Pinconning

Genealogy

Family & Local Histories Information

View Original Census Records

Local History

Founded by George Van Etten, of Van Etten, Kaiser & Company when a sawmill was built and some 100 acres platted around the D & M. R. R. tracks here in 1872.

Platted as a village in 1887 and as a city in 1931.  It was named from its proximity to the Pinconning River (originally O-pin-cin-conning, Indian for "potato place").  William Reid started the first cheese plant here in 1911.

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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