While Flat Rock, Michigan is a rapidly growing community of roughly 10,000 residents, it maintains a unique "small town" atmosphere where some claim ancestry. For while it didn’t incorporate as a city until 1965, its roots extend to the early days of the young Republic.
Michael Vreeland settled the town between 1811 and 1820 and called it the Village of Vreeland until 1838 when the family sold it off and changed the name. Seven generations of Michael Vreeland’s descendants have lived in Flat Rock and still do to this day.
