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History · Bergland Township

Bergland Township’s post office opened in 1903, and 15% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Bergland Administrative Site.

1903first post office
1on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Bergland Township began

When was Bergland Township founded?

1903

The Bergland Township post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Ballentine (1891), Korelock (1911) and Lake Gogebic (1918), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 438123 years
Founding year: the first Bergland Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Bergland 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 Bergland Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Bergland Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Bergland Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bergland 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

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Ballentine
1891–1911
Bergland
1903–today
Korelock
1911–1918
Lake Gogebic
1918–1931
Merriweather
1925–1980
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BerglandLake GogebicMerriweather
Gone or out of use
Lake Gogebic Post Officepost officeMerriweather Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Bergland Township
Forest LawnLakeview

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

The story so far

Bergland Township, in brief

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

Bergland is a census-designated place (CDP) and the primary community in Bergland Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan, United States. It is situated on the north shore of Lake Gogebic, the largest natural inland lake on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Highway M-28 passes through the center of town, leading east 19 miles (31 km) to Bruce Crossing and southwest 20 miles (32 km) to Wakefield. M-64 leads north from Bergland 17 miles (27 km) to the shore of Lake Superior and 30 miles (48 km) to Ontonagon, the county seat. Bergland is bordered to the west by the Lake Gogebic CDP. As of the 2020 census, Bergland had a population of 141. The community was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 c…

Its first post office opened in 1903. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 467 to 438 (-6%).

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

Timeline

Bergland Township, 1891 to 1936

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891Post officeThe Ballentine post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1903Post officeThe Bergland post office opens
  5. 1911Post officeThe Ballentine post office closes
  6. 1911Post officeThe Korelock post office opens
  7. 1918Post officeThe Korelock post office closes
  8. 1936BuiltBergland Administrative Site is built
By decade

Bergland Township, decade by decade

Today5 recent
Dollar General Retail Store - Michigan2022Dollar General Retail Store - MichiganBerglandMI StoneChapel2017BerglandMI StoneChapelBerglandMI SchoolAdmin2017BerglandMI SchoolAdminBerglandMI OldSchool2017BerglandMI OldSchool2009-0617-Bergland20092009-0617-Bergland
On the National Register

1 historic place in Bergland Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
6
each building in a district counts
first listed
2005
Bergland Administrative Site
Bergland Administrative Site, built 1936
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Colonial Revival1
Late 19th Century Revival1
Late 20th Century Revival1
Bergland Administrative SiteColonial Revival · Built 1936

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Bergland Township

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

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Frank OlsonAmerican chemist · b. 1910
Lise Anne CoutureArchitect · b. 1959
Tony AveRacecar driver · b. 1968
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Joseph SullivanFBI agent · b. 1917
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Earl W. WarrenAmerican politician · b. 1902
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Len CalligaroAmerican football player · b. 1921
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Carp Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMatchwood TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWakefield Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMarenisco TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Bergland Township’s history

What year was Bergland Township founded?

The Bergland Township post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Bergland Township?

One place: the Bergland Administrative Site (listed 2005).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.