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Bangor Township History
ORGANIZATION OF THE TOWNSHIP AND EARLY SETTLERS
Bangor Township was created with the first United States survey
of Van Buren County as township No. 2 south, range No. 16 west. The Township,
originally part of the old Township of South Haven, and was officially approved
by the Michigan legislature in March 1837. On March 11, 1853 the Van Buren
Township Board of Supervisors established township No. 2 south, range No. 16
west as the new Township of Marion and five days later officially established
the name of Bangor for the Township. Township government was organized in 1837
and the first election held on April 3, 1854 with election of Mansel M. Briggs
as Township Supervisor and Charles U. Cross as Clerk. The first school was
organized in 1839 but did not open until 1845.
Charles U. Cross was the first settler in the Township and settled in the
northeast quarter section of Section 12 in March of 1837. Mr. Cross eventually
organized the Village of Bangor and became it's first President. Mr. Cross was a
farmer and logger and built a saw mill in 1846. He also was instrumental in
bringing the railroad to the Township.
There were a total of eight homesteads in the Township between the years 1838
and 1839. By 1840 the number of homesteads increased to twenty-two and by 1856
the number of homesteads increase to almost 100.
Public Consulting Team
last updated on:
March 17, 2006
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