The first white settler, a fir-trapper, arrived in this area in 1840. By the 1860s, 27 settlers had moved here, living with their families in the houses of this set. As railroads crossed through 10 years later, the area boomed into three villages.

One of the first families to settle were the Woods in 1862. Nearly 150 years later, the family is still active in local government, although the original homestead has been inactive since the 1970s. Unfortunately for them, when the roads were built, their house was left isolated by a half mile in every direction.

Oct 16, 1957: T-day Sylveta, Wava, & Lucille are helping us put up this green paper. Today July 1946: Sis went to see Jim & Laura at Mullet Lake Michigan with Lydia Eugstrom

This was the local Grange Hall, where farmers gathered together for promoting economic and political agendas, such as pushing for rural mail deliveries and fighting railroad monopolies. The Hall closed in the 1950s with the establishment of a nearby Co-Operative.