Coral, in Maple Valley Township, was first settledby Rev. Charles Parker in1861.  He donated 80 acres to become the newvillage. He became involved in lumbering. The lumber camp, calledStumptown, was said to be first named Stumptown after the Stump andMorris mill & was later platted as Coral. Logging flourishedand the Hart Oaks Company sawmill operated until 1880 when the pineforests in the area were exhausted. Coral Enterprise newspaper beganpublication here in 1875. The railroad came through in 1871 and aspotato farming increased potato warehouses were built along the tracksin Coral and Trufant.  http://www.montcalm.org/history0025.asp

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