Four Towns, Michigan

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Four Towns, Michigan
Unincorporated community
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Four Towns
Location within the state of Michigan
Coordinates: 42°37′04″N83°24′49″W / 42.61778°N 83.41361°W / 42.61778; -83.41361
Country United States
State Michigan
County Oakland
Townships Commerce, Waterford, West Bloomfield, and White Lake
Settled1830
Time zone UTC-5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code(s)
48327 (Waterford)
Area code(s) 248
FIPS code 26-84240 [1]
GNIS feature ID1627218 [2]

Four Towns is an unincorporated community in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is located at the junction of Commerce, Waterford, West Bloomfield, and White Lake township. As an unincorporated community, Four Towns has no legally defined area or population statistics of its own, and it uses the Waterford 48328 ZIP Code.

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First Settlers

In 1830, Harley Olmstead, from Rensselaer County, New York, was the first to settle in what would become Four Towns. [3]

In 1832, John K. Dewey, from Windsor County, Vermont, built the first frame house in Four Towns. That same year, Nathan R. Colvin brought his family from Clarendon, Vermont [4] and built a farmhouse at Four Towns.

Post Office

Four Towns had a post office from 1856 until 1902. It was given the name "Four Towns P.O." because of the four townships meeting there. Squire Cooley was its first postmaster. [3]

Church

The first church in Four Towns was the historic Four Towns Methodist Church. [5]

In 1866, a frame schoolhouse was built on land donated by Nathan R. Colvin at 6451 Cooley Lake Road in Waterford Township, Michigan. From that year until 1930 the building served as both a school and church. Since then the building has been used primarily for church activities.

Church services were offered once every two weeks when Four Towns had few residents. Sunday school was held weekly during the Summer months. [3]

Today, the church is officially named Four Towns United Methodist Church. [3]

Schoolhouse

The first schoolhouse was built of logs on the town line on a portion of the land of H.L. Hunt's farm. Soon the tiny schoolhouse was outgrown and a larger schoolhouse was built in 1866 [6] on property donated by Nathan R. Colvin. The schoolhouse still stands as a church on that location on Cooley Lake Road and Lochaven Road. [3]

Cemetery

Nathan R. Colvin gave a portion of his property for a cemetery. In 1839, the first recorded burial in the Four Towns Cemetery took place; Martha A. Coyles, age 7 months, 18 days. [6] Four Towns Cemetery has 286 interments, as of 2016. Buried there are several early settlers and their families, including Nathan R. Colvin (1792–1873), Harley Olmstead (1803–1885) and John K. Dewey (1796–1887).

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References

  1. ↑ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on December 27, 1996. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Four Towns, Michigan
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Four Towns United Methodists Church". Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Nathan Robinson Colvin 1792–1873 - Ancestry®". Ancestry.com .
  5. ↑ "10 Trang Xóc Đĩa Online - Hồi Hộp Và Kịch Tính Với Tỷ Lệ Thắng Cao". Top 10 Nhà Cái Xóc Đĩa Online Uy Tín.
  6. 1 2 "Waterford Township Historical Timeline | Waterford, MI". waterfordmi.gov. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
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