Pere Cheney, Michigan

Pere Cheney, also called Cheney and Center Plains,^[1] was a village located in Crawford County, Michigan in the late 19th century. Established in 1874 around the sawmill of George M. Cheney,^[2] it served as the temporary county seat when Crawford County was officially organized in 1879,^[1][3] though it soon lost this distinction to the more heavily populated town of Grayling.^[4] It had a station on the Michigan Central Railroad called the Cheney depot, and a United States post office.^[2] The Post Office closed in 1912,^[2] and the village was abandoned in the early Twentieth century. It has since taken on the reputation of a ghost town.^[2][4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} John Fedynsky, Michigan's County Courthouses (2010), p. 43.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Walter Romig, Michigan Place Names (1973), p. 436.
3. ^ Stephen G. Ostrander, in George Newman Fuller, Lewis Beeson, eds., Michigan History: Volume 74 (1974), p. 46.
4. ^ ^{a b} Larry Wakefield, Ghost Towns of Michigan: Volume 2 (1998), p. 32-36.

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Coordinates: 44°34′39″N 84°38′16″W / 44.5775°N 84.63778°W / 44.5775; -84.63778