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Village of Otisville


History of Otisville :

The Pere Marquette depot at Otisville, twelve miles northeast of Flint Michigan.

Otisville is a village in Genesee County, in the Flint metro area. The community is in the Eastern Standard time zone.

The population, at the time of the 2000 census, was 882. Population density in 2000 was 999 people per square mile. Median household income was $40,341.

To the left is a turn of the century picture of the depot for the Huckleberry Railroad. Rite Aid Drug Store is now located on this site.

Henry Heister and his family came from New York State were the first settlers in 1837. Stephen and Amos Biegel and Matthew McCormick already lived here when John Hayes arrived in 1851. Began as a lumbering town when Francis Otis and his two brothers bought out Mr. Hayes for a lumber mill in 1852. Named Forest in 1855, renamed Otisville in 1861. Incorporated into a village in 1877.


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