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The community known today as Waters,
Michigan
was established in the 1870s when a lumbering operation was built at Bradford Lake
in Otsego County.
For a period of time, the post office which began in 1876 was
named Bradford Lake and the railroad station was
Wright's Lake. The lumbering firm
Wright, Wells and Company bought out the failed enterprise begun by a
man whose last name was Bradford.
The town
Bradford
Lake was renamed Waters in
1885. It was about this same time
that Wright, Wells and Company sold its lumber mill in Waters to
Stephens Lumber Company located in
Roscommon
County.
Three generations of the Stephens family expanded the lumbering
business as well as the town of
Waters. By
1899, Waters consisted of about 100 homes, a depot for the Michigan
Central Railroad, post office, church, school, a general store, company
office, boarding house, two saw mills, a planing mill, and logging
operations in the near vicinity connected by 18 miles of railroad track
with two locomotives......
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"Waters, Michigan
The Town With the Bottle
Fence"
by
Phil Alexander
$15
Proceeds will benefit the
OCHS Endowment Fund |
Photos
of Waters, Michigan
Self-Guided Walking Tour
MAP
Otsego County Centennial Book
Pages
13
14
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