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'''Sherman''' is a small [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in [[Wexford County, Michigan|Wexford County]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michigan]]. It was one of the earliest permanent settlements in Wexford County and was the first [[county seat]].
'''Sherman''' is a small [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in [[Wexford County, Michigan|Wexford County]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michigan]]. It was one of the earliest permanent settlements in Wexford County and was the first [[county seat]].


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Revision as of 05:20, 10 February 2020

This article is about the unincorporated community in Wexford County. For other uses, see Sherman Township, Michigan and Sherman City, Michigan.
Sherman, Michigan
Unincorporated community
Location of Sherman, Michigan
Location of Sherman, Michigan
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Coordinates: 44°25′26″N 85°41′48″W / 44.42389°N 85.69667°W / 44.42389; -85.69667
CountryUnited States
StateMichigan
CountyWexford
TownshipAntioch, Hanover, Springville, Wexford
Elevation
[1]
915 ft (279 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code231
GNIS feature ID1621586[1]

Sherman is a small unincorporated community in Wexford County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was one of the earliest permanent settlements in Wexford County and was the first county seat.

Sherman is located at the point where four townships meet and portions lie within each of the townships. It is at the northwest corner of Antioch Township, the southwest corner of Hanover Township, the southeast corner of Wexford Township, and the northeast corner of Springville Township. It is situated on M-37 near where it crosses the Manistee River, just a couple miles northeast of the village of Mesick.

The first known permanent white settler in the county, B. W. Hall, settled near Sherman in the early 1860s.[2] A store was opened in 1867 and was at first known as Manistee Bridge because of proximity to the bridge over the Manistee River on the Newaygo and Northport State Road (built in 1857 and is approximately the route of present-day M-37 in the county) which connected Newaygo 70 miles (110 km) to the south with Northport on the Leelanau Peninsula 50 miles (80 km) to the north. The road opened the area for settlement, as it was previously practically inaccessible. The settlement gained a post office in 1868 named Sherman, after the Civil War General William T. Sherman. Sherman was platted in 1869 and incorporated as a village in 1887.[3] Fires destroyed the business district and the village disincorporated sometime in the 1920s.

Sherman was the county seat until 1881, when, as a result of the so-called "Battle of Sherman", the seat was moved first to Manton and a short time later to Cadillac.

References

  1. ^ a b "Sherman". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Wheeler, John H. (1903). History of Wexford County, Michigan, pp. 225-26. B. F. Bowen.
  3. ^ Wheeler (1903), pp. 269, 273.

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