Golf Courses

Scottland's Yard Golf & Driving

Walloon Lake Country Club

Local History

In 1872, John Jones, Jr., and his sons Clarence and Elliot, homesteaded in this area.  They also cut ties for the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad which came through here in 1874, and the stop was named Melrose for Mel Rose, an early local surveyor.  The township was named Melrose but the townspeople applied for a post office named Bear Lake, but there was already a Bear Lake post office in Michigan, and they were given one name Tolcott on October 19, 1897, with Frank Jones as its first postmaster.

The office was renamed Talcott on March 4, 1899, and Walloon Lake on September 22, 1900.  J. R. Haas, a local butcher, suggested the name which he had seen on an old railroad map.  The railroad people were curious as to how it had got there, and they found that years before a group of Walloons from Belgium, had settled at the north end of Bear (now Walloon) Lake, but that now no trace of them remained.

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

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