Mayfield, Michigan

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Mayfield, Michigan
Unincorporated community
Nickname: 
"Birthplace of the Adams Fly"
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Coordinates: 44°37′34″N85°31′48″W / 44.626°N 85.530°W / 44.626; -85.530 Coordinates: 44°37′34″N85°31′48″W / 44.626°N 85.530°W / 44.626; -85.530
Country Flag of the United States.svg United States
State Flag of Michigan.svg  Michigan
County Flag of Grand Traverse County, Michigan.svg Grand Traverse
Township Paradise
Settled1868
Elevation
[1]
837 ft (255 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code(s)
49666
49649 (Kingsley)
49696 (Traverse City)
Area code 231
GNIS feature ID631772 [1]

Mayfield is an unincorporated community in Grand Traverse County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [2] It is located in Paradise Township between Kingsley and Traverse City along South Garfield Road (County Road 611). As an unincorporated community, Mayfield has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own.

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History

The land on which Mayfield sits has long been territory under the Council of Three Fires; the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi.

In 1868, a sawmill was built upon Swainston Creek, a tributary of the Boardman River. Later, a grist mill was built, and the settlement was named Beulah. However, in 1869, the community was awarded a post office under the name of Mayfield, named after the adjacent township. [3] In 1872, a line of the Pennsylvania Railroad was extended from Cadillac via Walton and Mayfield to Traverse City. [4]

In 1922, Leonard Halladay, a Michigan fly tyer from Mayfield, conceived the popular Adams Fly as a general mayfly imitation. It was first fished by an Ohio attorney and friend of Halladay, Judge Charles F. Adams on the Boardman River near Traverse City. Charles Adams reported his success with the fly to Halladay who named the fly after his friend. [5] [6] For this reason, Mayfield is known as the "Birthplace of the Adams Fly". [7]

In 1961, Mayfield Pond, the small impoundment on Swainston Creek, was washed out in a rainstorm, subsequently leading to the failure of the Keystone Dam, upstream on the Boardman River. In 1987, the pond nearly failed again, but a washout was prevented. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Mayfield". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ "Geographic Names Information System". edits.nationalmap.gov. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  3. ↑ Romig, Walter (1986). Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 359. ISBN   0-8143-1837-1.
  4. ↑ "michiganrailroads.com - Evolution Map - Lower - 1872". www.michiganrailroads.com. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  5. ↑ Schullery, Paul (1996). American Fly Fishing-A History. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press.
  6. ↑ Barritt, Amy. "Famous Fly for Fishing calls Mayfield Home" . Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  7. ↑ "Mayfield, Michigan: Birthplace of the Adams Fly". Dan Kennaley FlyFishing. 14 August 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  8. ↑ admin. "When Earthen Dams Fail: Washouts Along Northern Michigan Rivers" . Retrieved 14 December 2022.


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