History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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the west side of the Indian trail, which subsequently became the White
Lake road. AMr. Danielson afterward moved to Holly, where he died.
ROSE CENTEIR, OR ROSE
In the year 1835 Benjamin Hicks, of Livingston county. New York,
brought his family from that locality to section 35. and soon afterward
his son, Benjamin C., returned to New York for his own wife and
family. Various members of both families became well kown in after
years throughout that part of the township. In 1836 several settlers
located further to the northeast: also on section 22 at and near what is
now Rose postoffice. Of the latter were John A. Wendell and David
Gage, both of whom became prominent men in the township. Mr. Gage

ON THE SHItAWASSEE RIVER

opened a "hotel" in his rude shanty, which was located on the White
Lake road leading to Shiawassee. With foresight, when he first located
he broke up a small patch of ground to potatoes, never before grown in
the township. He afterwards purchased the Buckhorn tavern, on the
mail route from Pontiac to Shiawassee. Subsequent to the organization
of Rose township, Mr. Gage had built a better tavern than he could keep
in his first rude log shanty, and it was here that the first township meeting was held in 1837.
As early as I838 a postoffice was established to accommodate the
scattered settlers in the vicinity of the lake by that name. It was at first
called Buckhorn, but was changed to Rose soon after the township was
organized. The village plat of Rose Center is a station of the Pere
Marquette railroad, and embraces perhaps a hundred residents. It has
a few stores and a small sawmill and feed mill. Its banking is transacted at Holly, four miles north.