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The Waterford depot was 33.29 miles from Detroit and 155.02 miles from Grand Haven, Michigan. Two miles to the south of the Waterford depot was the Drayton Plains depot. Two miles north of the Waterford depot was the Clarkston depot, and just one mile north of the Waterford depot was the Windiate Park depot.
Opened in 1960, Our Lady of the Lakes School is a private Catholic K-12 school also located in the township at 5495 Dixie Highway, just south of Waterford Village. [45] St. Benedict School in Waterford was in operation until circa 2003, when the campus became the lower (elementary school) of Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy ...
The railroad was responsible for the population of Waterford Township reaching 1,085 the year it opened. Drayton Plains was platted in 1860. In that year the town was laid out by Lewis L. Dunlap. [10] By 1860, the population of Waterford Township had climbed to 1,289. [4] As Drayton Plains continued to grow, more retail establishments began to ...
The first church in Four Towns was the historic Four Towns Methodist Church. [5]In 1866, a frame schoolhouse was built on land donated by Nathan R. Colvin at 6451 Cooley Lake Road in Waterford Township, Michigan.
Located at 6500 Patterson Parkway, Waterford, MI 48327, Oakland County International Airport covers an area of 750 acres (300 ha) at an elevation of 981 feet (299 m) above mean sea level. It has three asphalt paved runways : 9R/27L is 6,521 by 150 feet (1,987 x 46 m); 9L/27R is 5,676 by 100 feet (1,730 x 30 m); 18/36 is 2,582 by 75 feet (788 x ...
In 1834, the first post office was established in Waterford Township on the north shore of Elizabeth Lake. It was named Lake Elizabeth Post Office. It was named Lake Elizabeth Post Office. Its first postmaster was an American Revolutionary War veteran [ 3 ] named William Terry (b.1760-d.1840), who came to Michigan in 1824.
Watkins Lake is a 238 acres (96 ha) lake in Waterford Township in Oakland County, Michigan. [2] The private, 25 feet (7.6 m) deep all-sports lake is spring fed and is entirely residential. It is located north of Watkins Lake Rd and west of Dixie Highway.
For the first several years after Waterford Township High School was established in 1947, [6] kindergarten through sixth grade attended Four Towns, Waterford Village, Williams Lake or Waterford Center, while the high school was based at Drayton Plains School until a permanent home, on the corner of M-59 and Crescent Lake Road, was completed in ...