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Hartford Township and City
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Ferdino Olds became the first settler in the township in 1837. In 1840 he named it Hartland after his native town in New York. As there was already a Hartland in Michigan, and at the suggeston of another 1837 settler Burrill A. Olney, it was renamed Hartford. The hamlet was first called Bloody Corners due to its early unsavory reputation for liquor. The first Hartford Post Office was organized on March 31, 1856, with James E. Griffen as its first postmaster. The town was first platted by Truman Stratton, W.W. Shepard and others in 1859 and given a station on the Pere Marquette Railroad in 1870. Hartford was incorporated as a village in 1877. (Ellis; Rowland; PO Archives)
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History of Hartford, MI
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Page Last Updated: 7/15/2003
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