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Addison
Located in Lenawee County |
Local History
John Talbot built a grist mill here in 1835-36, and the settlement was given a post office named Manetau, with Brayton Brown as it's first postmaster, on May 11, 1838; the office renamed Peru on the following Dec.8 and the Brownell's Mills on July 24,1840; Darius Jackson added a new mill to the settlement and its post office was renamed Jackson's Mills on May 2, 1844; in 1847, a part of the village was platted and called Harrison, but the village never took the name; in 1851, Addison J. Comstock, an Adrian banker, bought extensive land here, platted it and named it Addison, and the post office was renamed Addison on January 15, 1852. Incorporated as a village in 1893.
Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.