Kate’s Kitchen is one of Flat Rock Hometown Businesses. Kate’s started their business in the basement of … Read More






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By Joe Pagano
Kate’s Kitchen is one of Flat Rock Hometown Businesses. Kate’s started their business in the basement of … Read More
By Joe Pagano
Our Restaurant of the Week this week is Atwater Street Tacos, one of the newest additions to Flat Rock that … Read More
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Our Restaurant of the Week is China House, the only Chinese Restaurant in town The Shi family has … Read More
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We hope you are enjoying our focus on Dine Local Flat Rock, promoting a Restaurant of the Week to highlight … Read More
The first Euro-American settlers in Flat Rock were Michael Vreeland and his five grown sons between 1811 and 1820. Michael had been captured by British Rangers during the Revolutionary War and released after American independence.
The family purchased 800 acres (3.2 km2). The town was called the Village of Vreeland until 1838 when the Vreeland family sold off the majority of the land and relinquished control of the area. The Vreeland families built the first grain and lumber mill, having brought the grinding stones from New York.
Descendants of Michael Vreeland still live in the town and attend Flat Rock public schools, being the seventh generation to reside in the town their family founded.