Ortonville was founded by Amos Orton in 1848, when he built a dam on Kearsley Creek to provide power to his
gristmill. He erected the first buildings in Ortonville between 1839 and 1857 and operated businesses in them.
About 1839 he built his log house north of the Village. In 1856 he built the basic structure of the present
Old Mill on Mill Street in Ortonville. This landmark is owned by the Village of Ortonville and operated by
the Ortonville Historical Society, serving as a museum and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Today, 1250 people live in the one-square-mile village, located in North central Oakland county... and Amos Orton's mill lives on as home to the area's historical museum.
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