CLIMATE: Humid summer; cold, snowy winter
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Fall
Not much left except for the name. There is a school, a road, and a Ford plant in the area named Rawsonville but the only visual sign that a village was here at one time is the historical marker in front of the McDonalds on Rawsonville and across from Grove Road. Information from the marker is located below.
REMAINS: Whole town and homes...under water.
|Old Rawsonville Village...Rawsonville, now a ghost town, was once a thriving village. On September 13, 1823, the first land patent in Van Buren Township was given to Henry Snow for this site, which was soon known as Snow's Landing. Called Rawsonville by 1838, the community reached its peak around the Civil War. It then boasted sawmills, grist mills, two cooper shops, a stove factory, several drygoods and general stores, a wagon maker and three saloons. Rawsonville's failure to attract railroad service led to its decline. By the 1880s many of its businesses and mills had closed and its residents were moving away. In 1925 dam erected on the Huron River covered most of the remaining structures with the newly-formed Belleville Lake. Courtesy of www.michmarkers.com Submitted by: Rodney Belcher
Hali ya hewa: Majira ya joto ya joto, baridi, baridi kali, na baridi kali, wakati bora wa kutembelea: majira ya baridi kali, na hali ya hewa ya joto. Kuna shule, barabara, na kiwanda cha Ford katika eneo lililoitwa Rawsonville, lakini ishara pekee ya kuona kwamba kijiji kilikuwa hapa wakati mmoja ni alama ya kihistoria mbele ya McDonalds kwenye Rawsonville na kinyume na Grove Road. Habari kutoka kwa alama iko chini. Mji mzima na nyumba... chini ya maji. Kijiji cha zamani cha Rawsonville... Rawsonville, sasa ni mji wa roho, wakati mmoja kilikuwa kijiji chenye kusitawi. Mnamo Septemba 13, 1823, hati miliki ya kwanza ya ardhi katika Van Buren Township ilitolewa kwa Henry Snow kwa tovuti hii, ambayo hivi karibuni ilijulikana kama Snow's Landing. Rawsonville ilianzishwa mwaka 1838 na watu wengi waliishi huko. Wakati huo, jiji hilo lilikuwa na viwanda vya kusaga mbao, viwanda vya kusaga nafaka, maduka mawili ya kutengeneza makaa ya mawe, kiwanda cha kutengeneza jiko, maduka kadhaa ya bidhaa kavu na maduka ya jumla, kiwanda cha kutengeneza magari ya kukokotwa na maduka matatu ya kuogelea. Kushindwa kwa Rawsonville kuvutia huduma ya reli kulisababisha kupungua kwake. Kufikia miaka ya 1880, biashara na viwanda vingi vilikuwa vimefungwa na wakazi wake walikuwa wakihama. Mnamo 1925, bwawa lililojengwa kwenye Mto Huron lilifunika sehemu kubwa ya miundo iliyobaki na Ziwa Belleville lililokuwa limetengenezwa hivi karibuni. Ukurasa wa kwanza wa Micheal's Blog ni wa Rodney Belcher.