Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

BUNKERHILL TOWNSHIP AND ITS HISTORY

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Markey, and several of his sons, Lewis Case, Parley Moore, Henry
Wood, Jonathan and Charles Wood and others.
The first house built in the township was by Abram Bunker,
and some suppose the town took its name from him; it is a
mistake, however.
The town was organized in 1838, I think. At the time it was
organized there were not men enough living in it to fill all the
township offices. Some of them were completely loaded down
with "blushing honors."
The first school district was organized by Deacon Fuller,
father of Rev. Fuller, of Leslie, and others in the northwest part
of the town, taking in a small part of Leslie.
The first church organization in the town was Presbyterian,
organized by Wm. B. Dean and others. The first church edifice
built was by the Catholics in the north part of the town. They
have the most numerous congregation in town, numbering their
members by the hundreds. The next was built by the Episcopal
Methodists at Fitchburg, in the southeastern part of the town.
There are several other church organizations, but none of them
have built houses of worship.
The first and only mill built in the town was by Selah B. Fitch,
a steam saw mill, now owned and run by John Miller & Son, of
Fitchburg. The first store was kept by Chilean Smalley, near the
center of the town, now closed. There are but two stores at
present in town, both at Fitchburg.
One is kept by Lewis Clark and the other by Anselmo Morris.
At the same place are two blacksmith and wagon shops. Also
there is a blacksmith and a shoe shop in the center of the town.
The first post office established was near the center of town,
with Jonathan Poast as postmaster. The next was in the northwest part of town, and Dorman Felt (now of Grass Lake) was the
first postmaster. The next was at Fitchburg, with Hubbard
Fitch first postmaster.
(Hubbard Fitch was a soldier in the War of 1812, and is buried
in the Fitchburg Cemetery. His grave is marked with a regulation U. S. marker for soldiers of that war.)
The politics of the town at the time of its organization were
Whig, and remained so until the spring election of 1848, when