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Laketon Avenue near Canada Road

Casnovia, MI 49318

Sec 33, T10N, R13W

History

The hamlet of Trent, located on Sections 9 and 17, had a population of about sixty and contained a grist and saw mill, two stores, one drug store, Grange hall and two blacksmith shops.  There was a saw ill at Trent as early as 1852 built by C.C. Darling.  In 1854 the Whitney brothers purchased the mill and over seven hundred acres of land and went immediately to making improvements.  In 1857 a grist mill was added.  The mill was run by the waters of Crockery Creek.

There were quite a number of saw mills in different parts of the township doing considerable business in a quiet way.  R.P. Hanna built in Casnovia village a pump factory in 1873, added a cider mill in 1875 and a heading mill in 1881.

Bartram brought from Lambton Co., Ontario, in 1867 a saw and shingle mill which was burned down March 1880. It was rebuilt the same year and was sawing about a half million feet of lumber and a million shingles. It was located at Canada Corners.

About a mile further up Canada Creek from Trent, Mr. W.H. Fulkerson built in 1861 a shingle mill.  It was purchased by S.B. Olmstead and in 1880 made about five million shingles.

G.B. Slocum, who owned several sections of land in the southwest part of town, built a saw and shingle mill at Slocum’s Grove about 1865.  In 1873 L.B. Murray built a saw mill at Bailey and in 1874 added a shingle mill.  In 1876 the establishment was changed to a stave factory and was doing a good business employing from six to twelve men.

E.E. Haywood and brother were doing more in the lumber business than any other firm in this locality.  In this township, they owned and ran a saw mill at Moon, which did a large business as well as mills in other localities.

(Research by Evelyn Buckingham from History of Muskegon County)

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Updated 2001.