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History · Breen Township

Half of Breen Township’s homes were built after 1969

Most of Breen Township was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1969.

0on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Breen 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 Breen Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Breen Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Breen Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

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

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

Foster City
1891–today
Hardwood
1891–1984
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Foster CityHardwoodHylas
Gone or out of use
Calumet MinemineFoster City StationlocaleHardwood Post Officepost officeHardwood Stationlocale
1cemetery inside Breen Township
Foster City

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

The story so far

Breen Township, in brief

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

Breen Township is a civil township of Dickinson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 471 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 499 to 471 (-6%).

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

Timeline

Breen Township, 1891 to 1984

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891Post officeThe Foster City post office opens
  3. 1891Post officeThe Hardwood post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1984Post officeThe Hardwood post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Felch TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWaucedah TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpalding TownshipIts storyCWest Branch TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWells Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMeyer Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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.