Editing Blaine Township, Michigan (section)

==History==
Blaine Township was organized from part of what had been [[Gilmore Township, Benzie County, Michigan|Gilmore Township]] in 1876.<ref>Walter Romig, ''Michigan Place Names'', p. 65</ref>

For a very brief period in the early 1890s, a town called '''Watervale''' {{coord|44|33|13|N|86|12|52|W}} was inhabited in the township along Lower Herring Lake. The town participated in the [[sawmill]] boom that brought a period of prosperity to northern Michigan. Abandoned in 1894, the town was made into a summer [[resort]] in 1917. Today the resort is known as the Inn at Watervale and the [[Watervale Historic District]]. Watervale maintains its nineteenth-century atmosphere and has been placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-18835_18896-67165--M_2003_5,00.html |title=Five Michigan Sites Considered for National Register of Historic Places Listing; Grand Rapids, Benzie County, Leelanau County, Alpena and Houghton County Properties Nominated |accessdate=2006-01-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822233419/http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0%2C1607%2C7-160-18835_18896-67165--M_2003_5%2C00.html |archivedate=2006-08-22 }}</ref>