Hendricks Township, Michigan

File:Hendricks Township Michigan Fire Station Epoufette.jpg

Former Hendricks Township Fire Station

Hendricks Township is a civil township of Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 117 at the 2020 census,<ref name="Census 2020"/> down from 153 in 2010.<ref name=CENS>Template:Cite web</ref>

Geography

The township is west of the center of Mackinac County, on the northern shore of Lake Michigan. It is bordered to the east by Moran Township and to the west by Hudson Township, both in Mackinac County; and by Hulbert Township to the north and Trout Lake Township to the northeast, both in Chippewa County.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Hendricks Township has a total area of Template:Convert, of which Template:Convert are land and Template:Convert (2.62%) are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2022"/>

Communities

• Caffey, along with the nearby Caffey Corner, was a lumber settlement at Template:Coord. It is on H-40. West of Caffey, H-40 is also known as the "Hiawatha Trail". At Caffey Corner, the Hiawatha Trail branches off to the south to end at US 2 east of Epoufette. H-40 continues east from Caffey approximately Template:Convert to Trout Lake and from there on to Rudyard just west of I-75.<ref>Template:Gnis</ref><ref>Template:Gnis</ref> Its station on the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway was originally called "Lewis", but because at the time there was another post office named Lewis in Michigan, it was given a post office named "Caffey", after the Pennsylvania-born Civil War veteran William N. Caffey, who became the first postmaster in November 1899. The office closed in September 1909 and re-opened with Caffey as postmaster in June 1913. The post office closed permanently in December 1916.<ref name="Romig">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Gnis</ref>
• Epoufette is an unincorporated community in the township on US 2 on Lake Michigan at Template:Coord.<ref>Template:Gnis</ref> In 1848, a government surveyor, John R. McLeod, found an Ojibwe village here. Amable Goudreau began a commercial fishing business here in 1859, but it did not get a post office until lumbering operations began. McLeod became the first postmaster in December 1879. The name, French for "place of rest", was given by early French settlers because it was believed that Father Jacques Marquette used the harbor as the first step on his trip down Lake Michigan from St. Ignace.<ref name="Romig" /> A historical marker commemorating the fishing village was erected in 1986.<ref>Template:Usurped, Michigan Historical Markers</ref> A summer post office operated here from 1959 to 1965 and 1966–1972.<ref>Template:Gnis</ref>
• Fiborn Quarry was a settlement around a limestone quarry.<ref>Walter Romig, Michigan Place Names, p. 196</ref>