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DeWitt, MI - History
We would like to provide the residents of DeWitt a basic history overview.
Welcome to the DeWitt Home page. The DeWitt Home page provides as much information as possible on DeWitt. Knowing DeWitt’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within DeWitt’s Home page, you will also find DeWitt’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
DeWitt has a population of 4743. 41.3% of DeWitt’s inhabitants are Male, and 58.7 are female. 67.6% of DeWitt is married and 81.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $215,614, and the average rent is $888. Household median income in DeWitt is $92,652, and the individual median income is $42,332. DeWitt’s Ethnic is the following: White(80.9%), Other(8%), Multiple(6.7%), Hispanic(6.4%), Black(2.8%), Asian(0.8%), Native(0.7%).
DeWitt was named after DeWitt Clinton, Governor of New York during the 1820s. It was first settled by Captain David Scott, who moved there from Ann Arbor in 1833, and platted the land. The State Legislature formally created DeWitt Township on March 23, 1836. The first township meeting was held at the house of Captain Scott on April 8, 1836.
A gentleman by the name of Welcome J. Partelo was named the township's first Supervisor at that meeting. It did not take long for the state to divide DeWitt Township into the many townships that we recognize today. In 1837, the township was split in half by a north–south line; the western half became Watertown Township.
Two years later, the township was again split in half by an east–west line, and the northern half became Bingham Township. One day later, the governor approved an act, which split the remaining township area in half by an east–west line, and the eastern half became Ossowa Township (renamed Bath Township in 1857).
The final split of the township came in 1841 when the northern half of the remaining land became Olive Township. In four years, DeWitt Township went from encompassing the entire county to its current boundary. The county seat for Clinton County was also located in DeWitt Township from the inception of the county.
The county seat remained in DeWitt Township until December 1857 when it was moved to high Hall, in the village of St. Johns, until a new courthouse could be built. In the early 1900s, the Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis Railway opened the community to a new era of prosperity. It was not until 1929 when the town was incorporated as a village, and then was no longer under the full jurisdiction of the township.The area that is now the city was first incorporated as a village in 1929. On October 21, 1930, a great fire swept though the downtown business district, destroying eight historic and business buildings.
This included the destruction of the Clinton House/Hotel, which was a regionally famous establishment. The fire devastated the community, stagnating business growth once again. However, residential development did not slow, and thus DeWitt began its evolvement into the bedroom community that it is today. The Village of Dewitt was incorporated into a city in 1965. The DeWitt area was ranked as the 75th best place to live in the United States by CNN Money in 2005.
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