Businesses

Target.com

Verizon Wireless

Wal-Mart

Churches

Otisville United Methodist Church

Genealogy

Family & Local Histories Information

View Original Census Records

Senior Citizen Centers

Forest Township Senior Center

130 E. Main Street

(810) 631-3407

Local History

Henry Heister and his family came from New York State were the first settlers in 1837.

Stephen and Amos Biegel and Matthew McCormick already lived here when John Hayes arrived in 1851.

Began as a lumbering town when Francis Otis and his two brothers bought out Mr. Hayes for a lumber mill in 1852.  

Named Forest in 1855, renamed Otisville in 1861.  Incorporated into a village in 1877.

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

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