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About Middleville, MI

The first white settler to own land in the village was Calvin G. Hill, a native of New York, who bought 400 acres (1.6 km 2) in 1834 on both sides of the Thornapple River. The village was likely surveyed and subdivided before 1850, but the plat was not officially recorded until 1859. Prior to 1843, the settlement was often called "Thornapple". The name Middleville was at first given to a post office on the stage coach line between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo.