Editing Free Soil, Michigan (section)

==History==
The current village is actually the second settlement in Mason County to be named Free Soil.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eZBOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u0IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6741%2C3548624 | title=Freesoil village in national forest | work=Ludington Daily News | date=July 11, 1957 | access-date=December 2, 2015 | pages=5}}</ref> There are still a few homes in the area now known as "Old Freesoil".

The railroad was extended to Free Soil around 1882, and the village was incorporated in 1912.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pIxkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5UsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6887%2C7813007 | title=Free Soil gets history write-up | work=Ludington Daily News | date=June 25, 1981 | access-date=December 2, 2015 | pages=4}}</ref> The community derives its name from the [[Free Soil Party]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=57|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=53}}</ref>