Editing Chelsea, Michigan (section)

==History==
The area was first settled as early as 1820 within the [[Michigan Territory]] by settler Cyrus Beckwith.  It would be organized as [[Sylvan Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan|Sylvan Township]] in 1834.  The [[Michigan Central Railroad]] constructed a line through the area in 1848, and a post office was first established on January 4, 1849.  It was originally named Kendon. The name was changed to Chelsea on July 19, 1850 when the train station opened and community was formally platted.  The name Chelsea came from Elisha Congdon, who suggested the name after his hometown of [[Chelsea, Massachusetts]].  Chelsea incorporated as a village in 1889.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Walter |last1=Romig |title=Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities |series=Great Lakes Books Series |type=Paperback  |orig-date= 1973 |date=October 1, 1986 |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |isbn = 978-0-8143-1838-6 |location=Detroit, Michigan| page=112}}</ref>  The Chelsea courthouse is housed in a 120-year-old bank building in downtown.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/02/officials-debate-future-of-chelsea-courthouse-in-120-year-old-bank-building.html |newspaper=[[MLive]] |title=Officials debate future of Chelsea courthouse in 120 year old bank building |date=February 12, 2022}}</ref>

The village of Chelsea incorporated into a city in 2004.  In 2011, the downtown area of Chelsea was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as the [[Chelsea Commercial Historic District]].

In April 2025, some 300 residents of the town formed a human chain to help move 9,100 books for a bookstore to a new location.<ref name="g610">{{cite web | title=Michigan town forms human chain to move 9,100 books for shop | website=BBC News | date=2025-04-16 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cj45yl5dy42o | access-date=2025-04-18}}</ref><ref name="x475">{{cite web | title=See how a Michigan town moved 9,100 books one by one to their new home | website=AP News | date=2025-04-15 | url=https://apnews.com/article/bookstore-book-brigade-chelsea-michigan-03c553623c91c16a272b8a8149e4c298 | access-date=2025-04-18}}</ref><ref name="a889">{{cite web | title=A Michigan community takes a novel approach to moving 9,100 books for shop's next chapter | website=NBC News | date=2025-04-15 | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-bookstore-move-serendipity-rcna201441 | access-date=2025-04-18}}</ref>