The history of Hope Township was compiled by
Pretoria Maxwell. Please feel free to contact her at tory6208@aol.com
with any additions and/or corrections. A special thank you
goes to Wilber Havens for his contribution for many of the
above pictures.
Source Material and Suggested Reading
for Additional Information
“The County of Midland, Michigan
Official Register, History, Art Folio, and Directory,
1897”
Midland Genealogy Society - First Families Project
“The Midland Log - Centennial
Farms” May 1985, published by Midland County Historical
Society
“Upper Tittabawassee River
Boom Towns” by Stan Berrman
"Michigan Ghost Towns of the
Lower Peninsula” by R. L. Dodge
“The Midland Log - Camp Meeting”
Vol 3, No 1, Spring 1972 - written by J. Wiley and published
by Midland County Historical Society
“Portrait and Biographical
Album of Midland Co, 1884”
“Midland Pioneers”, A
Project of Midland Genealogical Society, Ora L. Flaningam,
Editor, 1999
The Midland Daily News, February
17, 1999 - “Maxwells: A family filled with Hope”
(Ernie Maxwell family)
The Midland Daily News, February
19, 2003 - “She embodied faith, courage” (Glade
Rogers/Wilcox family)
Gladwin County Record, September
4, 1935, Page 8 - “Views of Edenville’s Third
Annual Lumberjack Picnic”
“Salt of the Earth” by
Dorothy Langdon Yates
“A History of Hope and Hope
Township” by James L. Henry
"In Memory of the Camp Sixteeners”
by Herbert Nolan
