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Local History

This village was first settled by Smith Lapham, from Washtenaw County, in 1843, and he became the first postmaster of Laphamsville on April 5, 1848.  The village was platted as Laphamville in 1856, replatted and renamed Rockford in 1865, and its post office was renamed Rockford on August 24, 1866.  Incorporated as a village by the supervisors in 1866 and by the legislature as a city in 1935.

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

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