Editing Athens Township, Michigan (section)

==History==
Euro-American settlers first came to what would become Athens Township in 1831. Unlike in many other parts of Michigan the [[Potawatomi]] people were never fully driven out, although their reservation was dissolved in 1833. The first Athens Township Meeting was held in 1835. As of 1913 there were about 60 Potawatomi residents of Athens Township, out of about 1,500 residents total.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IRviAAAAMAAJ&q=Verona&pg=PA313 Washington Gardner. ''History of Calhoun County'', p. 166]</ref> Based on the 1910 US census for Athens township and village there were 1,537 residents, of whom five were listed as mulattoes (four of them children of a mulatto mother and white father) and 69 were listed as [[Native Americans in the United States|Indians]]. Of the 69 Indians, 40 were living in the Indian Village Reservation that at that time existed in Athens Township. At least two of the Indians were [[Odawa|Ottawa]] and not Potawatomi.<ref>[http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/census/results/image?hitcount=40&urn=urn%3Aproquest%3AUS%3Bcensus%3B-1%3B-1%3B-1%3B-1&searchtype=3&offset=38&rollid=&pageid=&locthreadid=2126416 1910 US Census, Athens Township, Michigan; from Heritage Quest]{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>