Hotels in Lapeer, MI

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Holly Smith is very educated on history here..she maybe able to help

I would have sent you to Fay. I know a lot about it, but she definitely knows more. There was a Mormon Church there too, south of Kings Mill on Five Lake Road, west side. It's where there's a brown brick ranch is now. Civil War veteran Henry Nash is buried in the cemetery there. The old school is private property, you have to cross that to get to cemetery, so be sure to get permission first. There's only two stones left and entirely overgrown. The school house is the 2nd school building. The first one was frame. Mail started here in 1869, I don't know when the post office here closed. It used to be called Asa for a short time. The first sawmill in Mayfield Township was here, even before Henry Stephens started lumbering south of here at Fish Lake. That first mill was owned by Piper and Thompson. Once all the trees were cut, both lumber companies moved farther north and the towns of Five Lakes and Fish Lake (Stephens Mill) died out.

Fish Lake was a logging boom town in the early 1800 s (if I remember correctly) but it's a ghost town now. Lois Rheaume over ay 7 Ponds Nature Center in Dryden would be able to tell you more I think!

Larry Schlaud maybe you or grandpa could help. My great grandparents owned a lot of land in that area.

I've posted more about them at Holly's History Files, One Room Schools of Lapeer County and Lapeer County Cemeteries.

Highly recommend Hamilton Inn!! We go there every year. It's on the beach and you get passes to waterpark across the street.