With October coming to an end, we just want to remind you that YOUR VOTE Counts. There Local Seats on the ballot. In Flat Rock there is the Mayoral vote and council seats to vote for. Attached is a Sample of the Flat Rock Ballot.
News and Events in Flat Rock, Michigan
By Joe Pagano
With October coming to an end, we just want to remind you that YOUR VOTE Counts. There Local Seats on the ballot. In Flat Rock there is the Mayoral vote and council seats to vote for. Attached is a Sample of the Flat Rock Ballot.
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.