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Solon Township is a civil township of Leelanau County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,542 at the 2000 census. ==Communities== * Cedar is a small unincorporated community at at the corners of sections five, six, seven and eight. It was founded in approximately 1885 by lumberman Benjamin Boughey. He named it Cedar City because it was in a cedar forest. The depot on the Manistee and Northeastern Railroad〔( Station: Cedar City, Michigan ), Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum〕 continued to be known as Cedar City, long after the post office named simply Cedar was established on August 15, 1893. The Cedar post office, with ZIP code 49621, serves most of Solon Township as well as a large part of Centerville Township to the north, and smaller portions of Cleveland Township to the northwest, Kasson Township to the west, and Elmwood Township to the east.〔(49621 5-Digit ZCTA, 496 3-Digit ZCTA - Reference Map - American FactFinder ), U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 census〕 In 1905, the Cedar State Bank was begun, which survived the Great Depression in 1933, but was closed later in the decade. The bank building was later used for the offices of the Leelanau Telephone Company. Each year in July, Cedar is host to the annual Cedar Polka Festival, which began in 1975. * Fouch is a small unincorporated community on the south end of Lake Leelanau at . It is named after John R. Fouch, who settled there in 1866. In 1893, he built a hotel for fishermen, and when the Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad〔While Romig gives the name of the railroad as Michigan & Northwestern, no other source uses that name; Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum indicates Fouch was a station on the M&NE ()〕 was built, the station on his land was named for him. He became the first postmaster on March 3, 1893. The office closed on November 13, 1895 and was restored as a summer post office on May 20, 1905 and operated until 1908. After Fouch's death, Daniel Perrin acquired the land in 1927 and developed a summer colony known as Perrin's Landing. Fouch Hill, now the site of the ''Timberlee Ski Area'', is just south of Fouch.〔 * Solon is a small unincorporated community at on the Cedar Run Creek between sections 21 and 22 in the central part of the township. It was first settled in the 1860s and named for Solon, Ohio, from where many of the settlers had migrated.〔 A post office operated from February 3, 1870 until June 15, 1909.〔; Romig gives the opening date as February 13, 1870〕 * The city of Traverse City is to the east and the Traverse City post office with ZIP code 49684 also serves portions of southern and eastern Solon Township.〔(49684 5-Digit ZCTA, 496 3-Digit ZCTA - Reference Map - American FactFinder ), U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 census〕 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「Solon Township, Leelanau County, Michigan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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