Local History

John Otis & Company built a charcoal furnace and sawmill here in 1882.  For Mr. Otis, E. K. Robinson platted and recorded the village as Furnaceville in 1883.  Its station on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad was named Furnace.  The village and its depot were renamed Antrim when the Otis interests were bought by the Antrim Iron Company.

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

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