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==History== [[File:Cement City, MI post office.jpg|thumb|left|225px|Cement City Post Office]] The location first was given a post office named Woodstock after the township on January 3, 1838, with postmaster Almer Smith. While the post office was closed on October 13, 1859, but quickly reopened On December 3. The post was open until May 5, 1871, then again from January 27, 1881, to May 21, 1887.<ref name="mpn">{{cite book|last1=Romig|first1=Walter|title=Michigan Place Names|date=1973|publisher=Wayne State University Press|location=081431838X|page=106|isbn=9780814318386|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-FPXEGRo-YC&q=Cement+City&pg=PA106|access-date=February 16, 2016}}</ref> Kelly's Corners post office, named after local early landowner Orson Kelly opened with John E. Turk as postmaster on February 17, 1868. On December 6, 1886, Kelly's Corner was renamed as Woodstock then to Cement on February 21, 1901. This after the 1900 formation of an unincorporated village under William Cohan in 1900 and named for the pending coming of a cement company. On March 5, 1901, the post office was renamed one final time to Cement City. Cement City was incorporated as a village in 1953.<ref name="mpn"/>
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