Town Name: Shiloh
Population: Unrecorded, but very few in a small collection of houses.
Reason for Becoming a Lost Town:
Abandonment of the railroad line, possibly due to a nearby derailment, the Depression, and the loss of the post office.
Town History:
Shiloh was first settled in 1876, four years after the coming of the railroad. Shiloh is the youngest settlement in Orleans Township, Ionia County. The 1897 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory listed Shiloh with a population of 75, a post office, a grocery and dry goods store, a general store a two saw mills, a grist mill, a physician, a shoe maker, two blacksmiths, two ministers and a justice of the peace, a teacher and a music teacher. By 1907, there were also a Congregational Church, a potato buyer and shipper and a barber. There was a saw-mill and planing-mill nearby.
Notes of Interest:
Today, only the Shiloh Community Church, a thriving congregation, and a few houses survive. There are some foundations of old buildings, curbs for an alley, and the railroad grade, all on private property.
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