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New Resource For Your Business

February 8, 2022 By Joe Pagano

The City of Flat Rock Economic Development Department is excited to offer you a valuable resource that could improve the success of your business!
Initiate is a collection of online business resources. With its vetted videos, tools, and templates Initiatecan help you improve and grow your business. It’s free to you through our relationship with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC).
To learn more about the Initiate platform, join our online training session on Wednesday February 16 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM.
Click Here to Register.
Whether you are a small or growing business, Initiate provides effective tools that will be valuable for your professional development and growing your business successfully into the future.
Please call Liz Hendley, AICP, Economic Development Director, at 734-789-2323 if you have any questions!

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WELCOME TO FLAT ROCK

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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