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Cedar is a small
unincorporated community at at the corners of
sections five, six, seven and eight. It was founded in approximately 1885 by lumberman Benjamin Boughey. He named it Cedar City because it was in a cedar forest. The depot on the
Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad continued to be known as Cedar City, long after the post office named simply Cedar was established on August 15, 1893. The Cedar post office, with ZIP code 49621, serves most of Solon Township as well as a large part of
Centerville Township to the north, and smaller portions of
Cleveland Township to the northwest,
Kasson Township to the west, and
Elmwood Township to the east. In 1905, the Cedar State Bank was begun, which survived the
Great Depression in 1933, but was closed later in the decade. The bank building was later used for the offices of the Leelanau Telephone Company. Each year in July, Cedar is host to the annual Cedar Polka Festival, which began in 1975. •
Fouch is a small unincorporated community on the south end of
Lake Leelanau at . It is named after John R. Fouch, who settled there in 1866. In 1893, he built a hotel for fishermen, and when the Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad was built, the station on his land was named for him. He became the first postmaster on March 3, 1893. The office closed on November 13, 1895, and was restored as a summer post office on May 20, 1905, and operated until 1908. After Fouch's death, Daniel Perrin acquired the land in 1927 and developed a summer colony known as '''Perrin's Landing'
. Fouch Hill, now the site of Timberlee Hills'', is just south of Fouch. •
Solon is a small unincorporated community at on the Cedar Run Creek between sections 21 and 22 in the central part of the township. It was first settled in the 1860s and named for
Solon, Ohio, from where many of the settlers had migrated. • The city of
Traverse City is to the east and the Traverse City post office with ZIP code 49684 also serves portions of southern and eastern Solon Township. ==Geography==