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Pentwater, Oceana, MI
Edwin R. Cobb and Andrew Rector bought the first government land here in 1849 and built their sawmill in 1853; Charles Mears came in 1856, built a sawmill and a boarding house and called his part of the village Middlesex; Mr. Cobb became the first postmaster of Pent Water on March 17, 1855, and the first supervisor when the township was organized in 1856; it was platted in 1862 and incorporated as the village of Pent Water in 1867; the spelling was changed to Pentwater on May 23, 1894...
Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More ... By Walter Romig
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1895 - Pentwater
Pent'water, a post-village in Pentwater township, Oceana co., Mich., on Lake Michigan, at the mouth of a river of its own name, and at the northern terminus of the Chicago & Michigan Lake Shore Railroad, 44 miles N.N.W. of Muskegon, and about 15 miles S. of Ludington. It contains 3 churches, a... Read MORE...
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1906
Pentwater, a banking post-village of Oceana co., Mich., on Lake Michigan, at the mouth of a river of its own name, and on the Pere Marquettte R., 15 mils S. of Ludington. Fruit is extensively canned and shipped. Pop. in 1900, 1061.
Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
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