Golf Courses

Bedford Hills Golf Club

Local History

Lewis Ansted and his wife, Marietta Hayden Ansted (an ardent member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union) owned a 140 acre farm here in Bedford Township and on all deeds to the lots they sold was included the clause that no liquor was to be used, made or sold on the land.  This provision was even assented to by the Ann Arbor Railroad when it obtained a right-of-way through the property.  Mr. Ansted platted the village about 1884 and successfully petitioned for a post office named Temperance. 

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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