Chandler Township, Is To Me...
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The aerial view photo of Chandler Hill below, taken by Charles Dawley on 30 July 2014, is oriented the same direction as the header photo above. The farm is the same in both photos as having first belonged to the Martin/Roscoe Howard Family and presently owned by Art and Connie Keyes. The electric power line is visible cutting straight up and over the hill in both photos. In the photo below the Chandler Hill Road curves up over the hill, while Slashing Road heads off to the right going toward Thumb Lake Road. The trees planted in the square grid pattern on the right are the planting remains from when the Tree Nursery was located there on Slashing Road, where several Chandler Township residents worked.
UPDATE: In 2023, the trees in the old nursery area have all been slashed down.
UPDATE: In 2023, the trees in the old nursery area have all been slashed down.
30 July 2014 ~ Looking East Along Chandler Hill Road With Slashing Road Going To The Right
Photo Credit: Odalaigh
Conflicting stories for the name of CHANDLER Township were floated, as noted under the gravesite information for Arthur Chandler who was buried on top of Chandler Hill in the Gallop Cemetery. Click HERE for that additional information.
IF anyone knows how Chandler Township was named please contact this web master by clicking HERE?
IF anyone knows how Chandler Township was named please contact this web master by clicking HERE?
8 June 2023 Photo Below:
The swamp land on Chandler Hill Road, below the hill, has been massacred.
The swamp area holding two streams had been a beautiful natural area for wildlife...
GONE.
Click HERE to access on this same web site, additional photos of this swamp land devastation.
Click HERE to view photos of a similar wasteland found on Slashing Road on the old Nursery site.
8 June 2023
By 17 September 2023 it has been noted that more destruction has been transpiring for the Chandler Hill area. On right side of REA line, the area seen in the photo above, just past the Rosco Howard/Keyes Farm property – the area has been logged off on the right hand side of hill and about as far up Chandler Hill to where the log watering trough was located.
UPDATE as of 7 June 2023: Additional NEW, UPDATED interesting information has been added to the "Post Office and Rural Delivery" web page on this site. Click HERE to view.
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~ 2010 Chandler Township Plat Map ~
Posted here with permission from the Charlevoix Conservation District Board of Directors
303 North Street
Boyne City, MI 49712-6193
Posted here with permission from the Charlevoix Conservation District Board of Directors
303 North Street
Boyne City, MI 49712-6193
~ 2010 Chandler Plat Map ~
Click HERE to access the link which presents the 1901 Charlevoix County Plat Book.
Various sizes of each map can be clicked for larger and easier viewing.
Various sizes of each map can be clicked for larger and easier viewing.
The closing paragraphs written by Judy Gigante on the Chandler Township 1976 Application for the National Bicentennial Recognition accurately sum up Chandler Township and its Community of People :
"As you may have noticed, we do not have any sponsor organization. That is because our committee is made up of all the people in our community. Our township has no school, church, town, post office, grocery store, philanthropic organization, industry, or any organized group that could fund our activities. All we have are our people, all 125 including the children. We have a local form of government that is backing us completely. We are a low economic area with a very low tax base, since about 70% of our land is owned by the state [The green colored land in the above Chandler Township Map is all state owned land]. Chandler Township was at the heart of the logging industry. Now we have only 1/4 mile of paved road, but our voting record has been over 70% for years.
As you can imagine since we are in northern Michigan our area is beautiful and rural. In fact, the only town [Springvale] we ever had was built in 1900 by a logging company and was completely run by them. The town was never incorporated. When the logging company pulled out in 1925 they tore the town down leaving only the foundations. This was no little town either; it had a 16 room hotel and a store that a newspaper article quoted as 'doing $100,000-a-year' business.
What we're trying to express is that even though we are small we feel our Heritage Day, our projects, our people and our way of life so completely correspond with all three themes of the ARBA that should not be over-looked.
Our township picnic is probably most characteristic of what we're talking about. It will be the old fashioned picnic where everyone contributes something; it reflects a life-style that was typical of our forefathers and yet, it is not unlike our life-style today in Chandler Township; all the people working for all the people. We hope to carry on this theme in annual picnics in the future. Whatever mark we make on the Bicentennial will be made by the efforts of everyone in our township. By the time our Heritage Day arrives, as many people in Michigan and everywhere else as we can reach with our story, are going to come and take part in the pride we hold for our township and our country."
"As you may have noticed, we do not have any sponsor organization. That is because our committee is made up of all the people in our community. Our township has no school, church, town, post office, grocery store, philanthropic organization, industry, or any organized group that could fund our activities. All we have are our people, all 125 including the children. We have a local form of government that is backing us completely. We are a low economic area with a very low tax base, since about 70% of our land is owned by the state [The green colored land in the above Chandler Township Map is all state owned land]. Chandler Township was at the heart of the logging industry. Now we have only 1/4 mile of paved road, but our voting record has been over 70% for years.
As you can imagine since we are in northern Michigan our area is beautiful and rural. In fact, the only town [Springvale] we ever had was built in 1900 by a logging company and was completely run by them. The town was never incorporated. When the logging company pulled out in 1925 they tore the town down leaving only the foundations. This was no little town either; it had a 16 room hotel and a store that a newspaper article quoted as 'doing $100,000-a-year' business.
What we're trying to express is that even though we are small we feel our Heritage Day, our projects, our people and our way of life so completely correspond with all three themes of the ARBA that should not be over-looked.
Our township picnic is probably most characteristic of what we're talking about. It will be the old fashioned picnic where everyone contributes something; it reflects a life-style that was typical of our forefathers and yet, it is not unlike our life-style today in Chandler Township; all the people working for all the people. We hope to carry on this theme in annual picnics in the future. Whatever mark we make on the Bicentennial will be made by the efforts of everyone in our township. By the time our Heritage Day arrives, as many people in Michigan and everywhere else as we can reach with our story, are going to come and take part in the pride we hold for our township and our country."
21 May 2013 ~ Chandler Hill Road Looking Toward Chandler Hill
"I took this [photo above] on the way to the farm! It was one of the coolest things I have ever seen!
I sat in my car on the side of the road for a long time, just watching.
I think someone upstairs was sending me a sign that maybe even in the eye of the storm
a rainbow can exist."
~ Stacey Buckmaster Reeb ~
I sat in my car on the side of the road for a long time, just watching.
I think someone upstairs was sending me a sign that maybe even in the eye of the storm
a rainbow can exist."
~ Stacey Buckmaster Reeb ~
The 1891 newspaper article gives an explanation for the naming of Chandler Township.
Arthur Chandler was buried in the Gallop Cemetery of Chandler Township.
Arthur Chandler was buried in the Gallop Cemetery of Chandler Township.
2 September 1891 ~ The Petoskey City Record
Chandler is a surname... derived from the occupation of someone who makes or sells
candles and/or soap, paint and groceries... from the French "chandelier".
candles and/or soap, paint and groceries... from the French "chandelier".
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Karla Howard Buckmaster, unless otherwise noted.
The design and compilation of the text and photos on this site are copyrighted 2013.
Most posted items will enlarge by "clicking" on them.
"Clicking" on some highlighted words may access additional information.
Please do not copy the photos on this site, many of which have been submitted by private individuals...
just come back and visit the site often to view the photos.
Please remember this website will continue to be a work in progress.
I am open to making additions, or changes to any information, or photos.
While it has taken me years to create, prepare, and present this website,
it is not a difficult task to make adjustments now,
so do feel free to contact me regarding absolutely any of your concerns having to do with this website.
I welcome all input. Thank you... and even let me know
if you found enjoyment in viewing this site with a topic so dear to my heart.
Please direct comments or questions to webmaster Karla Howard Buckmaster:
[email protected]
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filled with local photos and text, historical and otherwise...
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