Millett History

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"Millett" event  
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Delta Township event  
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Early Settlement Map of Eaton County
1800's      
   
1810's    
1817 Silas Ebenezer Millett was born on May 2, 1817 in Stratton, Vermont.  
1820's    
   

1830's

  
 
  
  1833 The first settlement in the county was made by Captain Reuben Fitzgerald in what is now Bellevue Township.  
  1834 First house built in Ingham County (Stockbridge, David Rogers).  
  1835 First settlement of Delta Township by Erastus Ingersoll. Log cabin built on the North bank of the Grand River.  
  1836 Dam and Mill built by Ingersoll. First board cut on the last day of December.  
  1837 Michigan becomes a state  
  1837 First log cabin built in Meridian Township (Jacob F. Cooley).  
  1837 Eaton county organized in 1837 (named after President Jackson's Secretary of War, John Eaton).  
1840's      
  1840 County seat moved from Bellevue to Charlotte  
  1843 First house built in Lansing (John W. Burchard).  
  1846 May 13, Mexican War starts. Lasts until 1848  
  1847 State approves move of capital from Detroit to Lansing.  
  1847 Silas Millett was Eaton County sheriff from 1847-1848.  
  1849 Lansing becomes the new state capital.  
1850's      
  1851 Aug 22, The schooner America out raced the Aurora to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.  
  1854 The Republican Party is organized by former Whigs and Democrats who are opposed to the extension of slavery.  
  1855 David Livingstone discovers falls on the Zambezi River, which he names the Victoria Falls.  
1860's      
  1860 My house was built.  
  1861 April 12: Civil war begins.  
  1861 Oct. 24: First U.S. transcontinental telegraph line put into operation. Pony Express ends two days later.  
  1863 First railroad line reaches Lansing connecting it to Laingsburg.  
  1865 April 9: Civil war ends.  
1870's      
  1870 Copy of the 1870 Census showing Silas Millet, his wife, his son and a servant in Acrobat PDF format.
  1873 Jan. 13: Northern Central Michigan Railroad opens line from Albion to Lansing (possibly our line?).  
  1874 "Millett's Station" village plat laid out by Silas Millett.  
  1879 Chicago Northeastern line completes line from Lansing to Flint.  
1880's      
  1887 Silas Millett died on November 7, 1887 in Millett, Michigan.  
1890's      
       
1900's      
       
1910's      
  1917 What is now the B&I Bar was built.  
1920's      
  1927 Current Millett school house was built.
1930's      
  1930 R. E. Olds builds the "Woldumar" mansion for his daughter Gladys Olds Anderson.  
1940's      
  1941 Bernice Olds Roe move's to Woulumar and renames the estate "Woldanroe".  
1950's      
  1952 Route 78 (M 78, I 69) was constructed bypassing Millett.  
  1952 Millett grain elevator fire in October.  
  1952 Fund drive to build first fire station in Delta Township starts in November.
  1953 First fire station built by volunteers on Millett Hwy and (Old) Lansing Rd & first fire truck purchased from Charlotte.
1960's      
  1964 "The Great Millett Egg Fire of 1964".
  1966 Mrs. Anderson (or Roe) donates 120 acres of Woldumar for a natural science camp called "Camp Discovery"  
  1969 Grand Manor Restaurant (Olds Mansion) opened for business in January.  
  1969 Grand Manor Restaurant (Olds Mansion) is gutted by fire in December.
1970's      
  1977 Mrs. Anderson (or Roe) donates 47 acres of the Woldumar estate as Anderson Park