The Remus Area Historical group was formed  to preserve our heritage.  We hope to generate interest, encourage historical research, and bring a better understanding among our citizens of how the settlers and early residents of the area laid the foundations for our current way of life.  The area includes Remus and surrounding area such as Broomfield, Colfax, Millbrook, Morton, Rolland, Sheridan, Hinton, Martiny, Colfax, and Wheatland Townships.  

 [Remus Depot in 1800s, from
Remus Area Centennial Book] 

      The group would like to collect and preserve significant materials and make them accessible to the public.  Anyone who is interested in and enjoys history can become a member.

      The Ojibwa Indians (now known as the Chippewa Indians) originally occupied the Remus Area in the early decades of the nineteenth century.  They welcomed subsistence hunters, fishermen, small farmers, the first French trappers, fur traders, and finally loggers.    
      The Ojibwa lived peaceably with the transient French, and later with the more permanent German immigrants, who were to clear, settle, and farm the land. 

      As the Chippewa Indians were to become displaced persons in their own homeland, so would others who came after them.  They had been similarly displaced from their homes in the American South, and those who came seeking a less oppressive life than they had found in industrialized Western Europe.   

     A life which promised fulfillment in the American doctrine of westward expansion. The settlement was to be joined by friends and relatives, some coming from Canada, some directly from Germany, others from Ohio, New York, and from the South.   

     The people cut timber, hauled fieldstone, sowed wheat and oats, and obeyed the Word of God, as they built homes and families and a church, all of which have endured and enhanced the Remus Area.

 [Remus Post Office, 1970, from

Remus Area Centennial Book]

 We welcome new acquisitions and members. If you have materials such as documents, photos, old news clippings, local stories or poetry, as well as historical items, that you would donate or loan for duplicating please one of the persons listed.  You can also sign up for an oral history to share your stories or the genealogy of your family or make a donation in honor or in memory of someone. 

In 1858, a group of emigrants organized a settlement in what would later be known as Wheatland Township,  which was organized on April 6, 1863.

When the Detroit, Lansing, and Northern Railroad extended through Mecosta
County in 1880, the settlement known as Bingen was moved from three miles west of the present Village of Remus to its present location near the rail line. 

In the late 1870’s the village was named Remus, after a surveyor of the township. Although, most of where Remus now stands was once a huge swamp, and many endured diphtheria, typhoid, and several fires, the first hundred years were good to most of those who came to or from the Remus area. 

Yes! I am interested in preserving Remus Area history.   

q       Interested in donating (in honor/ memory of)

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q       Interested in scheduling oral interview

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       For more information please call:     

      Linda Howard                     989 967-3468

      Char Lenon                         989 967-8153

      Sandy Maxwell                   231 796-3308

Or go to www.Remus.org

      REMUS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

“Our Past, Your Future”  

[Remus State Bank, 1908, from

Remus Area Centennial Book] 

Have   an   interest   in   local   history?

The  Remus  Area  Historical   Society

invites   you   to  view  an   historical  

display  of   local  artifacts  illustrating 

history   in   the  area  at  the  historical

building,  324 S. Sheridan  (M-66),

during   Heritage Days.