Attractions

Coopersville Farm Museum

Local History

Benjamin F. Cooper, of Utica, N.Y., bought 640 acres here in 1845, and he and his two sons built a sawmill.  Dr. Timothy Eastman, an organizer of the township in 1845 named it Polkton, for President James Knox Polk.  When the railroad came through in 1858, Mr. Cooper offered it all the land it needed if the station would be named after him and it was.  On January 22, 1589, the post office was renamed Coopersville.  Incorporated as a village in 1871.

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

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