Local History

The village began with a log store built in 1853.  The place was called Hall's Corners, after Silas C. Hall, the storekeeper, and he became its first postmaster on August 17, 1857, with the office named Farmers.  Arthur Carson built a store here in 1864, a larger one in 1872, and a grain elevator in 1880, and on November 14, 1884, the post office and the village were renamed for him.  A station on the Pere Marquette Railroad.  Incorporated as a village in 1887. 

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

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