| Tittabawassee Township Phone Numbers | ||||
| Township Administrative Office Department of Public Works Police Department (Emergency) Park Pavilion Reservations |
695-9512 695-6517 695-9623 911 695-9512 |
Fire Department (Burn Permit Info) (Emergency Fire & Rescue) Memorial Park Bldg. Rental Community Hall Reservations Water Billing Information |
695-9512 911 695-9512 695-9512 695-9512 |
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History A Post Office named Jay, for Jefferson Jagruth, its first postmaster in 1856, located in the settlement of Loretta. George Truesdale was chiefly responsible for having the office moved here to the settlement of Tittabawassee. The tavern here was run by "Mammy Freeland" and the lumberjacks and river men who frequented it named the village Freeland. The Post Office changed the name from Jay to Freeland in 1879. In 1944 U.S. Army Nurse Aleda E. Lutz of Freeland Michigan was the first U.S. military woman to die in a combat zone during World War II when her hospital plane went down on her 196th rescue mission. "Missing in Action" - the Eloise Richardson Story. |
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