Editing Vergennes Township, Michigan (section)

==History==
The area was first settled in 1836 by Sylvester Hodges from New York.  The first post office as established on August 12, 1837 but was soon discontinued on November 1, 1837.  The area was organized as Vergennes Township in 1838.  Part of Vergennes Township was split off in 1840 to form part of [[Caledonia Township, Kent County, Michigan|Caledonia Township]] (Township 5 North, Range 9 West), eventually removed in 1849 to form [[Bowne Township, Michigan|Bowne Township]]. The post office as reestablished on October 9, 1848 until April 14, 1871.  The nearby Alton post office was relocated and renamed Vergennes from June 11, 1900 until December 31, 1909.{{sfn|Romig|1986|page=571}}

Vergennes Township is the present-day location of the original Belleville Bridge, which once spanned [[Belleville Lake]] within the city of [[Belleville, Michigan|Belleville]] in [[Wayne County, Michigan|Wayne County]].  This bridge was first constructed in 1925 and later relocated to Vergennes Township in 1985, where it then replaced the old Burroughs Street Bridge crossing the [[Flat River (Michigan)|Flat River]].<ref>{{HAER |survey=MI-66 |id=mi0361 |title=Belleville Road Bridge, Spanning the Flat River at Burroughs Drive (replaced Burroughs Street Bridge), Lowell, Kent County, MI}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Charter Council of Wayne County|url=https://www.waynecounty.com/departments/publicservices/roads/belleville-bridge-history.aspx|title=Belleville Bridge History|date=2020|accessdate=November 2, 2020}}</ref>