Local History

Title to land here was first acquired by speculators in 1830.  Tenney Peabody bought their holdings in 1833, and he and his family became the first settlers.  In 1835, Jesse Croswell and others joined him in the grist mill business which, at the suggestion of Mrs. Peabody, was named the Albion company, after Mr. Crowell's home town in New York.  Mr. Crowell platted the village in 1836 and became its first postmaster on May 5, 1838.  Incorporated as a village in 1855 and as a city in 1885.

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

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