Local History

This village in Washington Township began with George Pack building a sawmill here in 1856.  In giving it a post office the department named it for Jesse Applegate (1811-88), leader of the party which opened the southern road into Oregon in 1845.  Orrin A. Munn became its first postmaster on June 24, 1880.  A station on the Pere Marquette Railroad.  Incorporated as a village in 1903.

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

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