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Local History

The village was founded and platted in 1869 by Isaac P. James who named it Jamestown.  But there was then a Jamestown post office in Michigan and this one was named Penn after its township which had been so named when organized in 1829 by its first settlers, Pennsylvania Quakers, who named it for William Penn.  Lewis Cowgill became the first postmaster on October 24, 1871, the office operating until July 15, 1935.  A station on the grand Trunk Railroad. 

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

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