Milan, Michigan Milan, Michigan Location of Milan, Michigan Location of Milan, Michigan City Of Milan 1968 Milan is a town/city in Monroe and Washtenaw counties in the U.S.
About 60% of the city's region and 75% of its inhabitants are positioned on the Washtenaw County side adjoining to York Charter Township in Washtenaw County; while 40% percent of the city's region and 25% of its inhabitants are positioned on the Monroe County side adjoining to Milan Township.
Noticed the confusion caused by this swift change in names and decreed that it would henceforth be called "Milan" after the neighboring Milan Township.
French pioneer in the region named the township "Milan" because they once hoped to produce grapes and wine in the area, so the Italian town/city by that name seemed appropriate, given Italy's reputation for wine-making.
The river going through Milan and Milan township is the Saline River, part of the River Raisin watershed.
Just southeast of Milan, along Plank road, is an old improve by the name of "Grape" which is a reflection of this desire to problematic a wine producing area.
Stimpson was a Milan farm boy who eventually held 74 US patents amid his life, and was one of the framers of IBM International Business Machines.
He advanced scales for large items such as farm scales, such as a wagon full of pumpkins, a cow, or a load of coal. He assembled a Stimpson factory in Milan on Plank Road at Dexter Road, later the Ideal Foundry. He worked on scales to weigh small items such as envelopes, for postage; candy; or diamonds.
In about 1903, Stimpson assembled a fantastic and imposing brick hotel in downtown Milan, the Stimpson Hotel.
In later years, customers of Stimpson Scales, if they needed parts for their scales, contacted IBM as the successor corporation. Stimpson was living in Louisville in 1941 when he died. He left behind a widow and a large, undivided factory making coffee grinders, meat slicers, and of course scales.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.40 square miles (8.81 km2), of which, 3.32 square miles (8.60 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km2) is water. Milan is positioned 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Ann Arbor and 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Toledo.
There were 2,308 homeholds of which 38.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.3% were married couples living together, 14.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 33.6% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 34.2% from 25 to 44, 19.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
Mooreville is positioned about two miles west of Milan.
At one time Mooreville was a larger town than Milan, with a postal service, flour mill, physician, cheese factory, and other amenities ahead of Milan's development.
But in 1878 the Ann Arbor Railroad assembled a line through Milan, bypassing Mooreville; and in 1880 the Wabash Railroad did likewise.
About one-quarter of the homes in Milan were assembled before World War II, and 21 percent assembled between 1940 and 1959.
Ford probably had the idea to make paint from soybeans, but the Milan plant did not make paint, just soybean oil.
Area inhabitants can utilize the Community House for small gatherings and it now homes the City Recreation Department dance studio.
Even with the increase in development, Milan is still equated with nation living.
Until recently, a great deal of its tax base was from the Visteon facility (Ford Motor Co.) Downtown Milan boasts a place on the National Register of Historic Places with fine examples of Italianate, International, Art Modern, and other architectural styles.
It now homes the Chamber of Commerce office and Milan Area Historical Society meeting place.
Part of Milan's present City Hall is the former Ford Power Plant used for the Village industries.
The United States Postal Service operates the Milan Post Office. A Federal Bureau of Prisons prison, the Federal Correctional Institution, Milan (FCI), is in adjoining York Charter Township. The prison is notable for the execution of Tony Chebatoris, the only person to receive the death penalty since Michigan became a state in 1837.
His body was taken to Stevens Funeral Home in Milan, where it was embalmed, placed in a casket, and buried at Marble Park Cemetery just west of Milan.
Milan is known regionally for its Automobile Drag racing venue, the Milan Dragway even though it is actually in London Township.
Milan's own exhibition is the Hack House, assembled in 1888 by Olive Friend.
After she moved out of the home, her cousin Jim Hack occupied it for generations, so the home is known in the Milan region as the "Hack House." Schultz Bottled Gas is the earliest continuously family-owned retail company in Milan and has been family owned and directed 1939-2015.
Chase Bank in Milan is descended from the Milan State Savings Bank which was established in 1911 at the same location, on Wabash Street, and has been operating continuously under various names up to the present time.
Martha Churchill, Milan historian The book, Images of America, Milan, by Martha A.
Way Back When columns by Warren Hale in the Milan News Leader; "MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE MILAN CITY COUNCIL HELD ON DECEMBER 7, 2009 AT 7:30 P.M.
IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, MILAN CITY HALL, 147 WABASH STREET, MILAN, MICHIGAN, 48160." City of Milan.
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