St. Joseph County, Michigan

Entries in maroon font have been transcribed from Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, published in 1876 by A.J. Johnson & Co., New York.

Park Township

Park, township of St. Joseph county, Michigan, on Kalamazoo division of Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad. Population 1274.

Cemeteries

1 - Park (Parkville)

2 - North Park (Mint)

3 - Moorepark (Lutheran Church)

5 - South Park

6 - Center Park

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Lockport Township

Lockport, post-village and township of St. Joseph county, Michigan, on the Michigan Air-Line railroad. Population of village 1553; of township 3456.

Three Rivers, post-village, St. Joseph county, Michigan, 28 miles south of Kalamazoo, at the crossing of Kalamazoo division of Michigan Southern and Air-line division of Michigan Central railroads, on St. Joseph River; has 6 churches, 2 union schools, 3 flouring mills, 4 pump-factories, 2 foundries, 1 threshing-machine factory, 1 paper-mill, 2 planing-mills and lumber-factories, 2 cigar-factories, 2 newspaper and job-printing offices, 4 hotels, magnetic bath-house, 2 national banks, domestic, British and German money-order post-office - in all, 175 places of miscellaneous business and stores. Buildings mainly brick, and new; deals largely in peppermint oil and wheat, the products of the country. The town and surroundings are beautiful, and population and business increasing. Population 1189.