The ghost town of Leetsville can be found down a dirt road in the Kalkaska County, Michigan township of Rapid River.
Leetsville began as a post office in 1875 and was a station on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, just a few miles north of Kalkaska. Other than a depot, there wasn t much else in the town except for a general store, school, the Tiffany Shingle Mill, and sawmill, which manufactured both hardwood and pine.
1905: Population 100.
1918: Population, still 100.
Other than that, Leetsville would be pretty much your ordinary, average former Michigan lumber town...except for one thing.a certain person buried in the local graveyard.
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This Leelanau County town was originally settled in 1852 on the west side of Grand Traverse Bay, in a little inlet now known as Omena Bay.
Reverend Peter Daugherty had moved his Indian mission away from Old Mission to this new area, which he called “New Mission”. In 1858 the community received its first post office, and a few years later (1877), the town – now also a railway stop on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad - was re-named “Omena P.O.”.
Daugherty built a Presbyterian church which he intended as the hub of town. The church still stands, as you will see in the photo gallery below.