Four Towns, Michigan

Four Towns is a historical locale in Waterford Township, Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The coordinates are coord|42.61778|N|83.41361|W|.

Four Towns received its name because it is near the point where the townships of West Bloomfield, Commerce, Waterford, and White Lake meet. In 1866 a frame school house was built on land donated by Nathan R. Colvin. From that year until 1930 the building served as both a school and church until a new school was established across the street. Since then the building has been used primarily for church activities. Next to the church is the Four Towns Cemetery. The cemetery is very small with only about 50 stones, but is the location of more than 2000 burials. A few stones are in very bad condition. Many are broken, buried or unreadable due to weathering. Generations of a prominent family from the area, the Spears, can be found in this cemetery, and living relatives of the early farmers still reside in the area on the remaining portion of the original farm land which once extended northeast to the Clinton River. Across from the church's site is the Four Towns Elementary school building, previously home to the Four Towns Chargers, and later known as the Four Towns Discovery school. Completed in 1930, this historical yet outdated building has since been closed and was demolished in January 2006.

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* [http://www.michmarkers.com/startup.asp?startpage=L0061.htm Four Towns Methodist Church] Michigan Historical Marker