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Drayton Plains is an unincorporated community in Oakland County, Michigan, United States. It was first settled in 1823. A dam and gristmill was built in 1837 and the Drayton Plains Hotel was built in 1839. It was platted in 1860, but never incorporated as a municipality and its identity has been largely subsumed within that of Waterford Charter Township. It is located on U.S. Highway 24 (Dixie Highway) around the west end of Loon Lake at . ''Brookfield Academy'', originally founded as the ''Laurel Montessori School'' in 1964 in Drayton Plains, was the first Montessori school in Michigan (it closed in 2011). An old fish hatchery is now the Drayton Plains Nature Center. Drayton Plains was informally referred to as a village and maintained its own identity and post office until the early 1990s when the post office was closed and functions transferred to the Waterford Post Office. The current ZIP code for the community is 48330. ==External links== *(''An Account of Oakland County'' ) edited by Lillian Drake Avery. Dayton, Ohio: National Historical Association, Inc., 1925?. *(Photograph of the Drayton Plains railroad station ) *(Drayton Plains Nature Center ) *(Laurel Campus of Brookfield Academy closes ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Drayton Plains, Michigan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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