By the 1910s, the unincorporated village's major industry was sugar beet farming with three beet weighing stations. The first Masonic Temple in the community was built in 1906 on Miller Road. Sommers & Brewer business was a manufacturer of potash. The creek powered a saw mill and a flour mill at the time. The locality also had a hotel run by William Brown, a Methodist church and a district school. Serving the station was the Goodyear and Miller elevator and Western Union Telegraph. In 1881, Swartz Creek had a rail station called Hamilton. The Village of Swartz Creek subdivision was platted in 1877. in 1842, a post office was set up in the community called Swartz Creek after the stream. In 1848, Miller Road was designed as a state road. Two settlers were buried on the Miller property before that acre was deeded to Flushing township by Adam Miller. Flushing Township was formed on March 6, 1838, split off from Flint Township, and included the northern part of the settlement. On March 11, 1837, just weeks after Michigan became a state, the southern area that would make up the community was placed into Mundy Township.
The Miller Settlement, and future core Swartz Creek community, was founded in June 1836 when it was first settled by Adam Miller, a German, and his family of eleven children in then Flint Township at its original size of 9 township survey areas. Predecessor communities Miller's Settlement Miller Settlement Population This trail terminated in the Lansing area.
Native Americans traveled the trail that paralleled the Swartz Creek to reach the maple trees, on what would later be theĬrapo Farm, to fish, gather fruit, and hunt.
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