Editing Cheshire Township, Michigan (section)

== Communities ==
'''Cheshire Center''' or '''Cheshire''' is an unincorporated community at {{coord|42|27|06|N|85|56|04|W|region:US-MI_type:city_scale:30000_source:GNIS|name=Cheshire Center, Michigan}}.<ref>{{gnis|623170|Cheshire Center, Michigan}}</ref> The first permanent white settler was Simeon Pike from [[Monroe County, New York]], who arrived in 1839. Cheshire Township was organized in 1851, and the sawmill village was named for the township. A post office named Cheshire was established on March 8, 1856, with Jonathon Howard as the first postmaster. The name of the office was "Lake" from April 10, 1858, until February 18, 1863, when it reverted to Cheshire. The office closed on March 6, 1879, and reopened from June 20, 1879, until July 30, 1905.<ref name="Romig">{{cite book | last = Romig | first = Walter  | year = 1986 | title = Michigan Place Names | orig-year= 1973 | publisher = Wayne State University Press | location = Detroit, Michigan | isbn = 0-8143-1838-X}}</ref>

'''Chicora''' is an unincorporated community at {{coord|42|28|36|N|85|58|25|W|region:US-MI_type:city_scale:30000_source:GNIS|name=Chicora, Michigan}}.<ref>{{gnis|623184|Chicora, Michigan}}</ref> A post office was opened on January 10, 1896, with Herman D. Clark as the first postmaster, and operated until May 31, 1904. It is named after the ''[[S.S. Chicora]]'', a steamship that sank in [[Lake Michigan]] on January 21, 1895.<ref name="Romig" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Shelak |first=Benjamin J. |title=Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CBCcye0n6IC|access-date=2008-11-30 |year=2003 |publisher=Big Earth Publishing |pages=126–128 |chapter=The Chicora |isbn=9781931599214 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CBCcye0n6IC }}</ref>