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Allenton
Located in St. Clair County |
Local History
This village in Berlin Township was founded about 1844 by Herkimer Smith, an inn keeper who ran a twice-a-week stage coach to Detroit and it was first called Smith's Corners. It was given a station named Smith's on the Almont branch of the Pere Marquette Railroad and a post office named Smith, with Lenrock P. Lewis as its first postmaster on April 3, 1883. On March 21, 1910, it was renamed Allenton for Darius and Jesse Allen, the civic and business leaders of the village.
Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.