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== Communities == * '''Cherry Home''', in the center of the township's cherry orchards, had a post office from 1919 until 1931.<ref>Walter Romig, ''Michigan Place Names'', p. 113</ref> * '''Gill's Pier''', or '''Gills Pier''' was a settlement at {{Coord|45|05|20|N|85|41|02|W|region:US-MI_type:landmark_scale:30000_source:GNIS|name=Gills Pier}} along [[Lake Michigan]] in the southwest of the township. The community took its name from the William Gill and Son lumber mill. A post office operated from January 22, 1883, until January 15, 1908.<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><ref>{{gnis|2492845|Gills Pier Post Office (historical)}}</ref> At its peak, in the 1890s, Gill's Pier had 12 houses, a post office, and a general store. The community, now mostly a memory, has been replaced by more vacation and year-round houses overlooking the lake. However, the name still appears on maps and lives on in the Gill's Pier Vineyard and Winery.<ref>[http://www.gillspier.com/ Gill's Pier Vineyard and Winery]</ref> * '''[[Northport, Michigan|Northport]]''' is a village on the [[Grand Traverse Bay]] side of the township. The Northport post office with ZIP Code 49670 also serves most of Leelanau Township.<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=86000US49670&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=AdvSearch&_lang=en 49670 5-Digit ZCTA, 496 3-Digit ZCTA - Reference Map - American FactFinder]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 census</ref> * [[Northport Point, Michigan|'''Northport Point''']] is an unincorporated community within the township. * '''[[Omena, Michigan|Omena]]''' is an [[unincorporated community]] in the southeast part of township on the Grand Traverse Bay. * '''Onominese''' is a [[ghost town]], originally an [[Odawa]] settlement.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stump |first=Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael |title=Photo gallery: Onominese Cemetery Crosses |url=https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/photo-gallery-onominese-cemetery-crosses/collection_35ccf74e-fd1f-11e9-b7ae-6fe868be5938.html |access-date=2023-01-11 |website=Traverse City Record-Eagle |language=en}}</ref> * '''St. Wenceslaus Church''', named for [[Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia]], a [[Roman Catholic Church]] founded nearby by immigrants from [[Bohemia]] who worked at the Leland Lake Superior Iron Foundry and at the Gills Pier sawmill also remains. After the Holy Trinity Church in Leland burned down in 1880, the first wood-frame church was built in 1890 and the cemetery was established. Church membership had doubled by 1908 and a brick structure replaced it in 1914. The two church buildings stood side by side until the autumn of 1963 when the frame structure was razed.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.michmarkers.com/startup.asp?startpage=L1671.htm |title=Historical marker for St. Wenceslaus Church and Cemetery |access-date=2018-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193659/http://www.michmarkers.com/startup.asp?startpage=L1671.htm |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
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