Meetings this Week

May 12, 2013 By Downtown Flat Rock

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There will be a Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting this Monday. The meeting is located at the Flat Rock City Hall and starts at 7:30pm. This is a community event and all are welcome. City Hall is on 25500 Gibraltar Road.

Also on Monday is the Historic Commission. This is a community event that starts at 6pm. It will be held at the Smith Hotel, at 29308 Aspen Blvd.

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.

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