Local History

When the Detroit & Mackinaw Railroad came through here in Bismarck Township in 1895, they named the station for James Dudley Hawks, president of the road.  Harris Harvey Horwitz became its first postmaster on August 26, 1896.

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

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