This historic structure was built as a home in 1836 by Orrin Weston and converted into a tavern by Stephen Jennings in 1841. Milton Botsford bought what was by then called the Sixteen Mile House...
White settlers came to this area around 1860. In 1876 a station on the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad opened. In 1879 James Sweetland built a sawmill adjacent to the railroad,...
Submitted by Gilda Spitz