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Genealogy

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Local History

Louis Lowell entered land here in 1851.  John W. Winsor built the first business, a sawmill.  Erastus P. Brown, a shingle-mill owner, became the first postmaster on October 14, 1864.  A station on the Toledo, Saginaw & Muskegon Railroad.  Incorporated as a village in 1877.  It was named for General Philip H. Sheridan. 

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

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