It’s the little historic village that kinda got sucked up as part of Lansing…..Millett.
Just outside of Ingham County is the Eaton County community of Millett (originally called Milletts, according to the 1895 atlas). It’s located in Delta Township between Lansing Road and Old Lansing Road, east of Creyts Road and just north of the Grand River.
It didn’t really disappear…..it just got overtaken by the ever-growing outskirts of Lansing. The village, then known as Milletts, was a farming community, plotted in 1874 with a post office being established in 1877.
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The village grew around the clay & coal beds that belonged to S.E. Millett, of whom it was named “Milletts”. In 1877, a railroad station was implemented and that same year a post office began operating, dropping the “s” and now called simply “Millett”…