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History · Waucedah Township

Waucedah Township’s post office opened in 1891, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1955 on.

1891first post office
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Waucedah Township began

When was Waucedah Township founded?

1891

The Waucedah Township post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Waucedah (1891) and Loretto (1895), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 809135 years
Founding year: the first Waucedah Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Waucedah 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 Waucedah Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Waucedah Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Waucedah Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Waucedah 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, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Waucedah
1891–1942
Loretto
1895–1964
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
LorettoWaucedah
Gone or out of use
Appleton MinemineLoretto Post Officepost officeWaucedah Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Waucedah Township
Waucedah Township

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

The story so far

Waucedah Township, in brief

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

Waucedah Township is a civil township of Dickinson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 809 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1891. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 804 in 2010, 809 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Waucedah Township, 1891 to 1981

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891Post officeThe Waucedah post office opens
  3. 1895Post officeThe Loretto post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1942Post officeThe Waucedah post office closes
  6. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1964Post officeThe Loretto post office closes
  8. 1981Born hereEd McBroom is born here
By decade

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

Waucedah Township on the map in 1955

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

Waucedah Township on the 1955 USGS map1955Vulcan sheet · 1:24,000

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Norway TownshipIts storyB−Breen TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMeyer Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFaithorn TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Waucedah Township’s history

What year was Waucedah Township founded?

The Waucedah Township post office opened in 1891, 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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.