RAWSONVILLE

NAME: Rawsonville COUNTY: Wayne ROADS: 2WD GRID: 8 CLIMATE: Humid summer; cold, snowy winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Fall

COMMENTS: Not much left except for the name. There is a school, a road, and a Ford plant in the area named Rawsonville but the only visual sign that a village was here at one time is the historical marker in front of the McDonalds on Rawsonville and across from Grove Road. Information from the marker is located below. REMAINS: Whole town and homes...under water.

Old Rawsonville Village...Rawsonville, now a ghost town, was once a thriving village. On September 13, 1823, the first land patent in Van Buren Township was given to Henry Snow for this site, which was soon known as Snow's Landing. Called Rawsonville by 1838, the community reached its peak around the Civil War. It then boasted sawmills, grist mills, two cooper shops, a stove factory, several drygoods and general stores, a wagon maker and three saloons. Rawsonville's failure to attract railroad service led to its decline. By the 1880s many of its businesses and mills had closed and its residents were moving away. In 1925 dam erected on the Huron River covered most of the remaining structures with the newly-formed Belleville Lake. Courtesy of www.michmarkers.com Submitted by: Rodney Belcher

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