Azalia, Michigan

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|subdivision_name2 = Monroe

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|subdivision_name3 = Milan

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|timezone = Eastern (EST)

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|postal_code = 48110
48131 (Dundee)
48159 (Maybee)

|area_code = 734

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Azalia is an unincorporated community in Monroe County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is located within Milan Township. As an unincorporated community, Azalia has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own but does have its own post office with the 48110 ZIP Code.{{cite web|last=UnitedStatesZipCodes.org|url=https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/48110/|title=ZIP Code 48110: Azalia|date=2021|accessdate=March 15, 2021}}{{google maps |url = https://www.google.com/maps/place/Azalia,+MI+48110/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x883c9ed9c464edd1:0x86d19c22aa1be891?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIhOHrzrPvAhWEBs0KHUmYBdAQ8gEwD3oECBYQAQ |title = 48110 ZIP Code map |access-date = March 15, 2021 }}

History

The community was first known as East Milan, or Reeves Station where a family named Reeves established the Star Bending Company. A post office opened on August 4, 1869{{gnis|2438743|Azalia Post Office}}{{cite book |first1=Walter |last1=Romig |title=Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities |series=Great Lakes Books Series |type=Paperback |orig-date= 1973 |date=October 1, 1986 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn = 978-0-8143-1838-6 |location=Detroit, Michigan| page=38}} (or in 1866 by some accounts),[http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;sid=abb867ef6b9e2c2bab12d72b2a6a662b;q1=azalia;rgn=full%20text;idno=BAD1008.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000737 Milan Township History] in History of Monroe County, Michigan, Wing, Talcott Enoch, ed. New York, Munsell & company, 1890. p. 593 largely through the efforts of Daniel T. Hazen, to avoid having to travel to West Milan (now Cone) to pick up mail. Steven Frink was the first postmaster, followed by Hazen in 1867, Joseph Meadows in 1872, John M. Lewis in 1877, and A.C. Reynolds in 1884. On September 1, 1887, the postmaster-general issued orders changing the name of the post office from "East Milan" to "Azalia", which was the name of the railroad station and also named Meadows as postmaster again.

The Toledo, Ann Arbor and Grand Trunk Railway (later the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railway and then the Ann Arbor Railroad), opened on June 8, 1878, with a station named "Azalia", named after one of the daughters of the president of the railroad, Azalia Ashley.

A Methodist Episcopal Church began holding classes in the early 1850s, building a church in 1870, which continues to the present as the Azalia United Methodist Church.

Images

File:azalia_dave_and_pam's_corner_store.JPG|{{center|Corner store and post office in 2010}}

File:Azalia, Michigan market.jpg|{{center|Closed market and post office in 2020}}

File:Azalia-United Methodist Church (Michigan).jpg|{{center|Azalia-United Methodist Church}}

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Michigan

Category:Populated places established in 1869

Category:Unincorporated communities in Michigan

Category:1869 establishments in Michigan