Grawn, Michigan


Grawn is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Blair Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 772.

History

Grawn was founded in the 1870s as Blackwood after its first settler, James B. Blackwood. The Chicago and West Michigan Railway was built through Blackwood in 1890, and the village was renamed to Grawn Station, after Charles T. Grawn, the former superintendent of Central Michigan Normal School, and later the superintendent of Traverse City Area Public Schools. The same year, the name was shortened to Grawn, and given a post office with William H. Gibbs as the first postmaster. By 1905, potatoes had become the main crop of Grawn.