Heritage through our Ancestors

Hile Family

Golf Courses

Arrowhead Country Club

Caro Golf Club

Local History

Curtis Emerson built his logging camp here along the Cass River in 1847.  The village which ensued was first called Centerville and was given a post office named Tuscola Center on April 25, 1866, to get rid of this confusion, the founding fathers met in 1868 and at the suggestion of one of them, William E. Sherman, the name Caro (a shortened form of Egypt's Cairo) was chosen.

In 1869, both the state legislature and the post office accepted the change of name.  The post office change was made on June 15, 1869.  Incorporated as a village in 1871.

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

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