Eaton County Sheriff history

The next summer he went east and brought his father's family to Portland but in March, 1838, he placed them in a log house built upon this land.

The first schoolhouse, built in 1839.

The first load of lumber in Charlotte was drawn from Spicerville in 1838. It was used in flooring the hotel in 1840, and in May, 1840, the first term of court was held in its upper room.

At a meeting of the board May 8,1841, it was first "resolved, that in the opinion of the board, the public good does not require the licensing of three places for the sale of spirituous liquors in this town; carried.

Johnston established the Eaton Bugle in March, 1845.

Doctor Henry M. Munson came to Charlotte from New York in the fall of 1847, his family joining him in the following spring.

In January, 1855, he established the Eaton Republican (afterwards the Charlotte Republican) and became its first editor.

The "Sampson Hall" in which the courts were for some time held, was built by him in 1856 and '57, and was the second or third brick building in the place.

Allowing a full generation for pioneering the county, the county was well opened up in 1866.

At the January session in 1870, the supervisors resolved that the proposition for raising by tax, fifteen thousand dollars for the purpose of building a jail and jailer�s residence for the county of Eaton, he submitted to the voters on the first Monday in the following April.

Again, in 1947 Myron Rogers of Chester Township remodeled the living quarters and office section.