Montmorency County 1903 Townships

Montmorency, Vienna, Briley, Hillman, Albert and Rust

Montmorency County Present Towhships

Montmorency, Vienna, Briley, Hillman, Avery, Albert, Loud and Rust.

 

 

Big Rock (formerly called Remington)- 1917 population 100. Montmorency Twp., 4 and 1⁄2 miles west of Atlanta on M-32. Has congregational Church; daily mail. William Remington, postmaster and general store. Also a meat market, saw mill, and some houses. Named for a huge granite boulder that still remains. The stone has an impression that appears to be a human footprint.

Bonard- listed in 1912 Railroad Atlas on the Au Sable and Northwestern Railway.

Briley- shown on 1899 railroad maps.

Dana- 1917 on the Twin Lakes Branch M.C. R., 24 miles northeast of Grayling. Mail Lewiston.

Godfrey- a postoffice in 1906, 4 1⁄2 miles north of Hillman. 1910 population: 24. Mail Hillman.

Heatherton- Vienna Twp. 12 miles west of Atlanta. A one-time lumbering center. Lemuel Plumley- postmaster, W.S. Coy, railway express agent, 2 sawmills, Peter Beckett and Roby & Marrow; Heatherton House Hotel, N. Willard, proprietor; general store; grocery; Rev. E. Elsey, Presbyterian; and Rev. Tiffney, congregational.

Herrick- 1910 mail Comins.

Idlewild- 1893 maps in southern part of the county.

Kissipie- a postoffice in 1927.

Klein- 1905 a country postoffice, 11 miles southeast of Atlanta. Mail semi-weekly. 1910 R.F.D. Hillman.

Louie's Town- a lumber camp on East Twin Lake in Albert Twp. during the 1870's. Named after Louis Anderson, walking boss for Mr. Hansen, who owned a lumber mill at Gaylord, Anderson pushed the men to get more work and was called, "Hungry Louie". Jensen est. the firs saw mill on the site when it became a village and the name shortened to Lewiston. 1905- Charles Drake, postmaster. 1918- Samuel S. Fuller, postmaster.

Royston- 1918 Montmorency Twp., 7 miles north of Hillman. Alexander, saw mill; Robert McQueen, general store; and Albert Steinke, saw mill.

Rust- Sec. 21

Valentine- Briley Twp., 9 miles north of Atlanta. E. Ewing, postmaster; Macomber & Bale, shingle mill. 1912 mail Atlanta.

Vienna- Vienna Twp., founded in 1887. Most of the property and business places owned by Isaac Furlough. 1893-c. 1913 post office.

Vienna Junction- 1910 mail Lewiston

First Centennial Farm

Donald Cordes Farm, located north of Hillman.

First settler

Western part of the county was Allen Briley. (1878)