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History · Evangeline Township

Half of Evangeline Township’s homes were built after 1977

Most of Evangeline Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1977. Below: maps from 1958 on.

0on the National Register
7%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Evangeline 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 Evangeline Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Evangeline Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Evangeline Township.

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Evangeline Township takes its name from the epic poem Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Evangeline Township, 1884 to 1958

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1884Post officeThe Bay Springs post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1905Post officeThe Bay Springs post office closes
  5. 1958On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Evangeline Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Evangeline Township Hall, Michigan2022Evangeline Township Hall, MichiganEvangeline Township, MI location2019Evangeline Township, MI location
On the map

Evangeline Township on the map, 1958 to 1984

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Evangeline Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Evangeline Township on the 1958 USGS mapEvangeline Township on the 1984 USGS map1958Bayshore sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Evangeline Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Evangeline Township

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

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Claude ShannonAmerican mathematician and information theorist · b. 1916
Megan BooneAmerican actress · b. 1983
David MalpassAmerican economist · b. 1956
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Hal SmithAmerican actor · b. 1916
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Kaila KuhnAmerican freestyle skier · b. 2003
Britta PhillipsAmerican musician · b. 1963
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
Baysprings Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Evangeline Township
Evangeline

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Boyne City3 historic placesB+Bay Township3 historic placesA−Eveline TownshipIts storyCMelrose TownshipIts storyC+Resort Township1 historic placeB−Horton Bay3 historic placesnot 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 Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.