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.

Mendon Township

Mendon, post-village and township of St. Joseph county, Michigan, on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, 21 miles south-southeast of Kalamazoo, and on the St. Joseph River, which furnishes water-power. It has manufacturing and commercial interests of importance. Population 660; of township 1908.

Cemeteries

1 - Dutton

2 - Mendon

3 - St. Edward's Catholic Church

4 - Scott

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Nottawa Township

Nottawa, post-village and township of St. Joseph county, Michigan, on the Grand Rapids and Indiana and on the Michigan Central Railroads. Population 1868.

Centreville, a post-village, capital of St. Joseph county, Michigan, on Prairie River and on the Air-Line division of the Central Railroad, 132 miles east of Chicago. It has one newspaper-office, a large knitting factory, good schools, and one national bank. Population 749.