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Do you know of Mill Point ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mill Point. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Mill Point. We found mention of Mill Point as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Ottawa County, Michigan. It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1851 and closed in 1867. This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others. Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices. Communities Also Named Mill Point ...We found five communities that share the name Mill Point. Within Michigan, the name Mill Point is unique. Beyond Michigan, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mill Point ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mill Point: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
More Orphans in Ottawa County ...Can you help? As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Ottawa County. Footnotes ...
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