Local History

Founded and platted by a group from Romeo, headed by George R. Funstan and Hon. DeWitt C. Walker in 1857.  

The Judge named it after Huayna Capac (d. 1527), head of a Peruvian line of Ynca Indian emperors.

A nearby rural post office named Pinery was transferred to and renamed Capac, with William B. Preston as postmaster, on January 5, 1858,  The Grand Trunk Railroad opened a station here in 1866.  Incorporated as a village in 1873,

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

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