Editing Climax, Michigan (section)

==History==
In 1825, [[John Mullet]] was among the first white settlers in Climax, along with Calvin White (1831), and the Farnsworth brothers (1832) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kpl.gov/local-history/towns/climax.aspx|website=Clarence Miller Local History Room article on Climax|publisher=Kalamazoo Public Library|accessdate=November 29, 2016|quote=First known white settlers were John Mullett (1825), Calvin White (1831), and the Farnsworth brothers in 1832.|title=Local History & Genealogy}}</ref> More Euro-American settlement of this area began in 1838. It was incorporated as a village in 1899.<ref>Walter Romig, ''Michigan Place Names'', p. 121</ref>

Climax got its name in 1834, when the family of Judge Caleb Eldred found a prairie after months of searching for good farmland. His son, Daniel B. Eldred, climbed a tree to look around and said, "This caps the climax of everything we saw."<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n83 84]}}</ref><ref>[https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-24/wait-youre-where-11-towns-and-cities-suggestive-names Wait, you're from where? 11 towns and cities with suggestive names.]</ref>

On December 3, 1896, Climax and the surrounding area was the first community to receive [[Rural Free Delivery|free rural mail service]] from the [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Post Office]] in the state of Michigan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/first-rural-routes.htm|title=First Rural Routes by State|website=about.usps.com|access-date=October 14, 2019}}</ref>