Editing Maple Rapids, Michigan (section)

==History==
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In the early 19th-century Maple Rapids was a site where [[Maketoquit]] and his large band of [[Ottawa]] processed maple sugar, although their main base was further east in modern [[Shiawassee County, Michigan]].

The community was named after the rapids on the Maple River by [[Campau family|George Campau]], (brother of [[Louis Campau|Louis]], founder of Grand Rapids), in 1826 when he built a trading post here. In 1852, William Hewitt built a dam, a sawmill and a store, platted the land and became the first postmaster. The town was incorporated as a village in 1881 during the lumber boom.