Local History

Job Durkee Sickles, from Palmyra, N.Y., founded the village and recorded its plat in 1857.  It was named for the first child born in it, the daughter of Frank Tillotson.  Incorporated as a village in 1885. 

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

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