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NOVEMBER 2025
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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY
The Birth of Edenville Township
November 1874
How Midland County’s map found its final shape
In November of 1874, the Midland County map changed forever. That month marked the official formation of Edenville Township, a peaceful riverside community that grew out of what was once the now-vanished Egbert Township.
When the U.S. Postal Department requested a new name for the local settlement—then known simply as “Camp 16”—postmaster Henry “Burt” Church looked out his window over the calm waters and rolling woods. “It must be as beautiful as the Garden of Eden,” he said, and with that, Edenville was born.
Edenville’s creation that November officially ended Egbert Township, reorganizing the county into the sixteen townships we still recognize today. Over the next decades, neighboring communities followed suit, each carrying a story in its name: Hope, where residents once joked they could only “hope” the mail would get through; Lincoln, founded two weeks after Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration; and Larkin, named after Midland’s own John Larkin, whose 1864 home still stands.
From sawmills to schoolhouses, these townships tell the story of grit, growth, and gratitude. And every November, when the leaves fall and the rivers slow, we can remember how one community’s simple faith and beauty gave us Edenville—and helped define Midland County’s heart.
Sources: Midland Daily News archives, Floyd Andrick for the Midland County Historical Society
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