Azalia, is an unincorporated community in Milan Township, Monroe County in the U.S. state of Michigan. In Law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any Municipality. Milan Township is a Civil township of Monroe County in the US Monroe County is a county in the US state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the population was 145945 with the 2007 Census Bureau estimate A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. It is located south and east of exit 22 off U.S. Highway 23, about five miles south of the city of Milan and about four miles north of Dundee. US Route 23 is a long north-south US highway between Jacksonville Florida, and Mackinaw City Michigan. Milan is a city that straddles the counties of Monroe and Washtenaw counties in the State of Michigan. Dundee is a village in Monroe County in the US state of Michigan.
Azalia is situated between sections 24 and 25 on the north branch of the Macon Creek at . In US land surveying, a section is an area nominally one Mile square containing 640 Acres (2 The ZIP code is 48110 and the FIPS place code is 04680. The ZIP code is the system of Postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS FIPS state codes are two- digit numeric Codes and two- letter alphabetic codes that represent the 50 states, the District of Columbia The Azalia post office is one of very few located within a business.
The community was first known as East Milan, or Reeves Station where a family named Reeves established the Star Bending Company. A post office opened in 1866, largely through the efforts of Daniel T. Hazen, to avoid having to travel to West Milan (now Cone) to pick up mail. Steven Frink was the first postmaster, followed by Hazen in 1867, Joseph Meadows in 1872, John M. Lewis in 1877, and A. C. Reynolds in 1884. On September 1, 1887, the postmaster-general issued orders changing the name of the post office from "East Milan" to "Azalia", which was the name of the railroad station and also named Meadows as postmaster again. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
The "Toledo, Ann Arbor and Grand Trunk Railway" (later the "Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railway" and now the Ann Arbor Railroad, opened on June 8, 1878, with a station named "Azalia", named after one of the daughters of the president of the railroad, Azalia Ashley. The Ann Arbor Railroad, historically was an American Railroad that operated between Toledo Ohio, and Elberta and Frankfort Michigan Events 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St Silverius becomes Pope (probable Year 1878 ( MDCCCLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
A Methodist Episcopal Church began holding classes in the early 1850s, building a church in 1870, which continues to the present as the Azalia United Methodist Church. For individual churches named Methodist Episcopal Church, see Methodist Episcopal Church (disambiguation The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes The United Methodist Church is the largest Methodist denomination and the second largest Protestant denomination in the United States.
External links
- Milan Township History in History of Monroe County, Michigan, Wing, Talcott Enoch, ed. New York, Munsell & company, 1890. p. 593
- Azalia United Methodist Church
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