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History · Pleasanton Township

Pleasanton Township’s post office opened in 1864

Most of Pleasanton Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978. Below: maps from 1956 on.

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How Pleasanton Township began

When was Pleasanton Township founded?

1864

The Pleasanton Township post office opened in 1864, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Pleasanton (1864), Humphrey (1897) and Malcolm (1897), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 870162 years
Founding year: the first Pleasanton Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Pleasanton 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 Pleasanton Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Pleasanton Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Pleasanton Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasanton 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

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

Pleasanton
1864–1909
Humphrey
1897–1909
Malcolm
1897–1915
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
HumphreyKampvilla Mobile Home ParkMalcolmPleasanton
Gone or out of use
Butwell StationlocaleGlover's Lake StationlocaleHumphrey Post Officepost officeHumphrey StationlocaleMalcolm Post Officepost officeMalcolm StationlocalePleasanton Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Pleasanton Township
Pleasonton Township

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

The story so far

Pleasanton Township, in brief

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

Pleasanton Township is a civil township of Manistee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 870 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1864. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 818 to 870 (+6%).

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

Timeline

Pleasanton Township, 1864 to 1956

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1864Post officeThe Pleasanton post office opens
  3. 1897Post officeThe Humphrey post office opens
  4. 1897Post officeThe Malcolm post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1909Post officeThe Pleasanton post office closes
  7. 1909Post officeThe Humphrey post office closes
  8. 1915Post officeThe Malcolm post office closes
  9. 1956On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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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On the map

Pleasanton Township on the map in 1956

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pleasanton Township.

Pleasanton Township on the 1956 USGS map1956Onekama 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 Pleasanton Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Pleasanton Township

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

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Sam SlyfieldSound engineer · b. 1898
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Paul EdingerPlayer of American football · b. 1978
James D. HittleAmerican military officer · b. 1915
Dora Hall StockmanAmerican writer and lecturer · b. 1872
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Arcadia Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpringdale TownshipIts storyDBear Lake TownshipIts storyC+Joyfield TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Pleasanton Township’s history

What year was Pleasanton Township founded?

The Pleasanton Township post office opened in 1864, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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

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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 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.