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Community Information

Chesaning Area Historical Society

Chesaning Schools

Chesaning Township

Heritage House Restaurant

Historical Chesaning Photographs

Local History

The first settler here in 1839 was the Thomas Wright family.  The first P.O. named Northampton (after its township) opened in 1846; incorporated as a village in 1859.

An Ojibwa village once stood here on a tract call Big Rock Reserve.  Chief Okemos, in court testimony at Saginaw in 1860, spoke of "the Big Rock on Shiawassee, call Chesaning."  It was a large limestone rock in the river at the present village site -- an object of veneration to the Indians.  The name Chesaning is from kitchi-asaning, "big rock"; the rock was blasted and burned for lime by early white settlers.

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

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