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History · Meade Township

19% of Meade Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Meade 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 Meade Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Meade Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Meade Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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 and places now gone

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

Pinnebog
1863–1923
Filion
1876–today
Crown
1899–1904
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
FilionPinnebog
Gone or out of use
Crown Post Officepost officePinnebog Post Officepost office

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

The story

How Meade Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Meade Township.

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The founders of Macomb Township arrived in the early 19th century in search of flat and fertile farmland, like that near the Clinton River. Many of these early settlers were of German descent, and the German influences remain today. The Township of Macomb was officially approved by the Legislative Council on March 7, 1834.

The township was named in honor of General Alexander Macomb, who was a highly decorated veteran of the War of 1812; his successful mercantile family owned most of Macomb County at one time.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Meade Township, 1863 to 1923

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1863Post officeThe Pinnebog post office opens
  3. 1876Post officeThe Filion post office opens
  4. 1899Post officeThe Crown post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1904Post officeThe Crown post office closes
  7. 1923Post officeThe Pinnebog post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Chandler TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHume TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townColfax Township1 historic placeB+Lincoln TownshipIts storynot 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 Wikipedia, 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.