Community Information

Downtown Farmington

Heritage through our Ancestors

Ryal Family, Argentine, Farmington, Fenton, Genesee, Midland, Salem

Farmer Markets

Downtown Farmington Farmers Market & Artisans Market

Sponsored by the Farmington Downtown Development Authority

Open Saturdays May - November 9am-2pm

Downtown Farmington

Website

Location

Contact:  Scott Stevenson, Market Master

(248) 841-4959

Golf Courses

Copper Creek Golf Course

Glen Oaks Golf Course

Hospitals

Botsford General Hospital

Museums

Governor Warner Mansion and Museum

Local History

Arthur Power, with his sons John and David Smith, became the first settlers in 1824.  They were Quakers and the settlement came to be called Quakertown.  They were from Farmington, New York, and it was given a post office named Farmington on January 7, 1826, with Ezekiel Webb as its first postmaster.

Elkanah Comstock who in 1824 became the first Baptist minister to settle and labor as a pastor in Michigan, organized the church here in 1826.  Mr. Power built the first sawmill in 1825.  Incorporated as a village in 1867 and as a city in 1926.

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