A post village of Oakland County, in the township of Springfield, on the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad, 42 miles northwest of Detroit, Fare 41.30. It has two churches, Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant, four stores,a hotel, flour mill, etc. Populavtion of village about 200 persons. Daily mail received. Postmaster, Farley Crow.

A post office of Oakland county, no businesses listed.

An important post village of Oakland county, on the Detroit and Howell Plank road, 20 miles northwest from Detroit . There are five churches located here, one methodist, two Baptist, one Presbyterian and one Universalist, a liberlly patronized and deservedly popular select school conducted by Octavia M. Wheelock, principal, and Miss Mary Wheelock, assistant, together with ten stores, two saw mills, two flour mills, and an iron foundry, three hotels, a manufactory of axes, and a chair factory. Village population about 500. A daily mail is received. Fare from Detroit, $1.00. Postmaster, John W. Collins.

A post village in the township of Holly, Oakland County, situated on the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad, 47 miles from Detroit, and 331 miles from Chicago. It contains about 700 inhabitans; three churches, to wit: Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian; one Masonic lodge, several mills, stores and mechanic shops; the village is rapidly growing and is surrounded by a rich and productive agricultural district. The passengers, freight and merchandise for Flint, Saginaw, etc., leave the railroad at Holly, and are transported by stage and wagons. There are two daily lines of stages leaving for Flint and Saginaw, and other points northward, carrying passengers and mails. It receives twenty mails per week. Postmaster, William R. Kendall.

A post village in Oakland County, about 36 miles northwest of Detroit. No businesses listed.

A post office in Oakland county, about 43 miles northwest of Detroit, no busnesses listed.

A post office in Oakland County, no businesses listed.

A township and post village n Oakland County, 36 miles northwest of Detroit. Fare by railroad to Pontiac, thence by stage, $1.55. The village contains four churches; Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal and Congregational; a lodge of Good Templars, two saw mills, two flour mills, and six stores. Population about 1700. Five mails are received per week. Merchants ship goods from Detroit, via Pontiac, over the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad. Postmaster, Henry T. Weavers.

A post village in the township of Lyon, in Oakland County, situated on the Grand River road, and on the Detroit and Lansing stage route, 32 miles from Detroit; fare $1.25. It contains two churches, one Methodist, and one Universalist; three dry goods stores, a saw mill and several mechanics' shops. It has two daily and one semi-weekly mail.

A post office in Oakland County

A postoffice in Oakland County

A village and postoffice in the southern part of Oakland County, watered by the tributaries of the Rouge River, situated on the stage route from Detroit to Howell, 24 miles from Detroit. It contains two churches, one Baptist and the other Free-will Baptist; one general store, and severalmechanics shops. Two mails per day. Postmaster, J. J. Perkins.

A village within the township of Oakland, in Oakland County, the post office was located on the stage route from Royal Oak to Dryden, Lapeer County, 30 miles from Detroit. It contains one Presbyterian and one Methodist church, two saw mills, one flouring mill, and several mechanc shops. It has two mails per week. Postmaster, William L. Cramer.

A post village of Oakland county, situated on the line between the townships of Oxford and Brandon, on the stage route from Pontiac to Lapeer, being distant 17 miles from Pontiac, 13 miles south of Lapeer, and 42 miles north from Detroit; fare from the latter place, by the usual travel route, $1.55. Two mail are received per week, from the south. The village contains one Congregational church, two hotel, an iron foundry, one flouring mill, four stores, a lodge of Good Templars, (Oakwood No. 100), a good school, and several mechanics. Postmaster, Lucius Fitch.

An incorporated post village, in the township of Orion, on the stage route from Pontiac to Lapeer, 37 moles northwest from Detroit; fare $1.30. Paint creek, upon shich the village is situated, is a rapid stream, and furnishes at this place, and in the vicinity, several good water powers. A large trade is carried on here in wool, grain and general produce. The place contains one Congregational church, one Masonic Lodge, six stores, two carriage shops, two hotels, two saw mills, and a flour mill. Population of about 500. Soil in the vicinity excellent, surface gently rolling timber plenty and good quality. Goods are shipped from Detroit to Orion by the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad via Pontiac. A daily mail is received. Postmaster, Ambrose S. Warner. Village Officers; President, Simon Andrews; Recorder, William Graham; Treasurer, Theodore D. Rich; Trustees, Hezekiah Rowley, Isaiah Bradford, Jesse Decker, John H. Lord adn John Graves.

A township and post village of Oakland County, 40 miles northwest from Detroit, on the stage route from Pontiac to Lapeer. Fare from Detroit, via Pontiac, $1.55. The soil of the township is a gravelly or sandy loam, equal to that of any portion of the state, for productiveness. There is but little heavy timbered land, the surface being gently undulating, and dotted with lakes, swamps and timbered openings. The village has one Methodist and one Baptist church, one Masonic Lodge, (Oxford No. 84), a lodge of Good Templars, (Humanity No. 45), three wagon shops, an iron foundry, two hotels, and six stores. A daily mail is recieved. Postmaster, Josiah Roberts.

An incorporated city and capital of Oakland COunty, situated on both sides of the Clinton River, and on the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad, twenty-six miles from Detroit; fare 85 cents. It is also connected with Detroit by a plank road, and with Lapeer by a similar road. The city is named after the celebrated Indian chief of that name. The history of civilization in Pontiac dates back to the year 1818. The site where the city now stands had for many years previous been selected by the indians as a camping ground. It was their great stopping place on their journeys to and from Detroit and Saginaw, and was called by them Nottoway Sapee.
On the 5th of Nov, 1818, an association was formed, principally of citizens of Detroit and of Macomb county, for the purpose of purchasing, jointly, at the common cost, a tract of land for the purpose of laying out and establishing the toen of Pontiac and was known as the Pontiac Company. Stephen Mack was appointed agent of the company, and on the 6th of Nov, 1818, he entered section 29 and the northeast quarter of section 33, and subsequently the north half of the southwest quarter of section 28, and the southeast quarter of section 20. Upon this tract the company laid out the village of Pontiac, and made propositions to the commissioners whi had been appointed by Gov. Cass to locate the county seat, to give the necessary lots of land and some money, in case the seat of justice should be established on their lands. On the 28th of march, Gov Cass issued a proclamation declaring the people of the county entitled to all the privileges to which the people of other counties were entitled, and also establishing the seat of justice at Pontiac. The first county court was held at Pontiac, July 17, 1820, William Thompson, Esq. Chief Justice, and Daniel Bronson and Amasa bagley, Eqrs., Associate Justices. Previous to that date, Oakland county was attached to Macomb county for judical purposes. The present boundry of Oakland county was established by a proclamation by the Gov., on the 20th day of September, 1822. Among the first white inhabitants who made Pontiac their home, were Major Joseph Todd, William Lister, Orison Allen, Olmsted Chamberlain, Ezra Baldwin, Job Smith, John W. Hunter, David Johnson, Oliver Torry, David Ferguson, Zibba Swan, John Hamilton, Amasa Bagley, Levi Willets, Joseph Fairbanks, William Morris, Samuel Stannard, and Charles Howard. An association was formed in 1819, called the "Pontiac Mill Company," consisting of Stephen Mack, Shubael Conant and Solomon Sibley of Detroit. They completed a flouring and saw mill in 1821, and the occasion was celebrated by a public gathering, several of the citizens of Detroit interested in POntiac, being among the number. The settlement made but little progress for several years. In 1831 it was visited by M. De Tocqueville, the distinguished French traveler, on a tour to the wild regions of Saginaw Bay, who gave a graphic description of his journey from Detroit through the wilderness, and of his arrival at the village of Pontiac, then containing "about twenty very neat and pretty houses, clustered within a clearing of about a square half mile." The opening of the public lands to the market gave a new impulse to the growth of the surrounding country, and Pontiac began to increase in population and importance, keeping pace with the settlement of the neighborhood. Since the completion of the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad, the city has acquired an additional importance, and has become one of the most lively market towns in the state. During the season for marketing wool and grain, it is often found difficult for teams to make their way through the principal business streets. The city has an air of life and vusiness that is seldom met with in an inland town, and is suggestive of enterprise, industry and general thrift. There are within its corporate limits, four grist mills, four sa mills, and a woolen factory, nine dry goods stores, four clothing stores, three drug sores, three hardware stores, three flour and feed stores, eighteen grocery stores, six saloons or resturants, three Millinery stores, two jewelery establishments, two newspapers printing offices, Teh "Pontiac Weekly Gazette," published by M. E. N. Howell and Charles E. Howell, and the "Pontiac Jacksonian," published weekly by Cyrus Peabody; two furnaces and machine shops; two breweries, six hotels, three cabinet shops, three lumber yards, one gunsmith shop, two livery stables, two Daguerreoeian artist, five wagon and carriage shops, one agricultrual store, two book stores, three coopers' shops, several carpenters, one tannery, six blacksmiths, one private bank, five insurance offices, sixteen lawyers, nine physicians, three fire engine companies, one hose do., one public hall for lectures and concerts, eight churches, viz; Episcopal, Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Methodist, Catholic, and Africian; one union school, with costly buildings, two private schools, and one colored school. There are eight hundred scholars registered in the district. One Masonic Lodge, one encampment, one council, one chapter, one lodge of Good Templars, and one Odd Fellows' association. The city is divided into two wards, and in 1860 it contained 2,576 inhabitants, and it is believed that it now contains 3,000. The township of Pontiac, in 1860, contained a population of 4,136. Pontiac is regarded as the first wool market in Michigan, and is noted for the higher grades, which are grown to a greater extent in Oakland, than in any other county in the state. It has daily mail. Postaster, D. C. Buckland. City Officers; Mayor, Erastus Thatcher; Alderman, Hosea Woodward, peter Hogan, Oliver R. Adams and David I. Prall; City Attorney, Michael E. Crofoot; City Treasure, Joseph R. Bowman; City Clerk, Daniel D. Thurber; City Marshal, James A. Patterson; Congregational church, George M. Tuttle, pastor; Presbyterian Church, Joseph H. Jennison, pastor; Catholic church, P. Wallace, pastor; Episcopal Church, J. O'Brien, rector; Methodist Episcopal Church, Samuel Clement jr., pastor; Protestant Methodist Church, Baptist Church, A. E. Mathew, pastor; a new Methodist Episcopal church is now bulding, at the cost of $8,000. The Union School house has been erected, at the cost of %5,000, at which there ae about 400 scholars in attendance. J Corbin. principal; John E. Colby, assistan principal; Micc C. Eggleston, principal; Miss Mary Rgers, Mrs Hattie Rogers, Miss Helen Short, Miss Libbie Hickson, and Miss Ellen LeRoy, teachers. Odd Fellows' Societies, Pontiac Lodge, No. 3, I. O. O. F. - Stated meetings held on Monday evenings of each week, over Williams and Caovin's store. Pontiac Lodge N0. 115 I. O. of G. T., regular meets, Tuesday evening of each week, at lodge room, over Dean & Harvey's Drug store. Good Templars Society, established in Feb 1861, Charles B. Howell, W. C. T; Martha Smith, W. V. T.; Richard Hudson, W. S.; Charles Fosket. W. T.;Julia Palmer, W. J. G.; John C. Hall, W. O. G.
The city possesses excellent water and contians the county buildings, ehich are substantially built of brick and stone.

A thriving post village situated in the township of Avon, Oakland County, on the stage route from Royal Oak to Dryden, 25 miles north of Detroit. The village is pleasantly located at the junction of Clinton river with Paint Creek, both of whic furnish excellent water power, which has been improved by the erection of two woolen factories, a paper mill, three saw mills, and four flour mills. It also has five stores, three hotels, tow iron foundries, and four churches, representing the Congregational, Baptist, Methodist, and Universalist denominations. The ground upon which the village stands was formerly owned by Lewis Cass, Charles Larned and Austin E Wing and the village was laid out and named by them. The unimproved water power at this point is still very great, and an excellent opportunity is offered for the profitable investment of capital in manufacturing. Population about 500. Goods are shipped from Detroit by the Detroit & Milwaukee railroad, via Pontiac, which is ten miles west ot Rochester. A daily mail is received. Postmaster, David Pixley.

A township and post office in the county of Oakland. The village is situated on the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad, and the Detroit and Birmingham plank road, and the stage route to Rochester, twelve miles from Detroit. Fare from Detroit, 40 cents. It contains three religious societies, to wit; Baptist, Methodist and Congregational, with two houses of worship, one saw mill, two general stores, and several mechanical trades and professions. It has two daily mails. Postmaster, Mantan H. Hammond

A post office in Oakland county, no businesses listed.

A township and post office, situated on the stage route from Clarkston to Flint, about 40 miles from Detroit. Has one Masonic lodge, one hotel and an iron foundry. Two mails are received per week. Postmaster, David Wright.

A post village in Oakland County.

A post office, about 20 miles from Detroit. It has no streams of sufficient extent for hydraulic purpose, and is a purely agricultrual town, and the land highly cultivated. It was settled at an early period in the history of Michigan civilization, by emigrants chiefly from western New York, where industry and engery have made it one of the most wealthy and thrifty towns. it contains three churches, one Baptist, one Methodist, and one Presbyterian, three general stores, and various professions and mechanical trades. It has four mails per week. Postmaster, Stephen Goodman.

A post village in the township of Commerce, Oakland County, situated on Walled Lake, a beautiful sheet of water, and on the stage route from Pontiac to Ann Arbor, 28 miles from Detroit. It contains two churches, to wit: Baptist and Methodist, an Odd Fellows' society, known as the Walled Lake Lodge, and a society of Good Templars, one general store, and a number of mechanics' shops. it has four mailsper week. Postmaster, Benjamin Brown.

A township and a village post office; the village is situated on the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad, 32 miles from Detroit; fare on the traveled route from Detroit, $1.10. It contains three general stores, a number of mechanic shops, a Masonic Lodge, No. 98, two saw mills, three flour mills, etc. The merchants receive their goods by the Detroit and Milwaukee railraod. It has daily mail. Postmaster, David H. Francis.

A township and a post office, on the stage route from Pontiac to Farmington, 26 miles northwest from Detroit. There are within the township, one Free-will Baptist and one Methodist church. Two mails are received per week. Postmaster, W. Rundle.

A township and post village in Oakland County. The village is situated four miles from the Davisburg Station, on the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad, and 40 miles from Detroit; fare from Detroit $1.30. It contains three churches, one Presbyterian, one Baptist and one Union, one general store and various professions and mechanical trades.