In 1894 William Ray Perry built this house on the farm that was purchased by his father in 1829. The Queen Anne house displays Eastlake ornamentation. Perry’s forbearers had arrived in New England in 1650. In 1825 Edmund Perry, William’s great-uncle, moved his immediate family from Rhode Island to the Grand Blanc area; other family members followed. The Perrys were the township’s second pioneer family, and this vicinity became popularly known as the “Perry Settlement”.

One year after Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club opened in 1957, Waldo McNaught used his unique position as club president and public relations director of the Buick Motor Division of the General Motors Corporation (GM) to organize a golf tournament here. The collaboration between Warwick Hills, Buick, and the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Tour resulted in the first Buick Open, held in June 1958.

Simeon Perry purchased this land in 1829 and built the central part of this house in 1834. The west wing was probably added soon after the house was built; the south wing came much later. The hand-hewn beams and Greek Revival style validate its age. Simeon and Sarah Perry raised their six children in this house. Their oldest child, Isabel, was the first child born in what was once called “Perry Settlement” because so many members of the extended family of Simeon’s father, Edmund, lived here. T

At the close of the nineteenth century, many rural Michigan school districts were in crisis as people left farms for the city and industrial jobs. A 1903 state law authorized consolidation of districts and provided for public transportation to ensure access to more distant schools. Local schools quickly responded and in 1904 nearby districts Porter and Cook had joined with Grand Blanc.

As Americans settled the wilderness areas of Michigan, religious services were often the first community concern. Beginning in 1831, traveling preachers visited this area, holding revival and prayer meetings, and starting new congregations. One of the earliest Protestant churches between Pontiac and the Mackinac area was the First Baptist Church of Grand Blanc founded on June 1, 1833.

Jonathan Davison (1795-1865), a native of Livingston County, New York, purchased 160 acres of land here in 1831. His son, John W. Davison, a farmer and carpenter, completed the rear portion of the present structure in 1855. He enlarged it to its present size in 1870.

In 1833 eleven people established the First Congregational Church of Grand Blanc. The congregation, which held its early services in homes and, later, schoolhouses, built their first house of worship in 1855.

The function of the Association is to discover, document, collect, preserve, research and exhibit any tangible materials that help to establish or illustrate the history of the community and surrounding area.