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History · Baldwin Township

18% of Baldwin Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Baldwin Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Baldwin Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Baldwin Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Baldwin Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Winde, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Perkins
1894–today
Winde
1918–1925
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BeaverPerkinsWinde
Gone or out of use
Perkins StationlocaleWinde Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Baldwin Township
Dutch MillPerkins

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Baldwin Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Baldwin Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Baldwin Township is a civil township of Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 700, slightly down from 759 at the 2010 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 759 to 700 (-8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Baldwin Township, 1894 to 1925

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1894Post officeThe Perkins post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1918Post officeThe Winde post office opens
  5. 1925Post officeThe Winde post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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Famous people

Famous people close to Baldwin Township

Nobody well known was born in Baldwin Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Robert John CornellAmerican priest, professor, and politician · b. 1919
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Frank SmithCartoon animator and film director from the Uni… · b. 1911
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Greg IvesAmerican NASCAR crew chief · b. 1979
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Mike PreaseauAmerican college basketball player · b. 1936
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Cornell TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMaple Ridge TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBrampton TownshipIts storyC−Masonville Township1 historic placeBEwing TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEscanaba TownshipIts storyC−

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.