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Limestone Township is a civil township of Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 438 at the 2010 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Limestone township, Alger County, Michigan )〕 ==Communities== There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. There are some historic locales and unincorporated communities: *Diffin is just south of the West Branch Whitefish River and US 41 at . It was at the junction between two former railroad lines. The name was supposedly chosen for its brevity. * Ladoga is a place at . It is a former sawmill settlement on the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company.〔''A Most superior land: life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.'' David Mac Frimodig, TwoPeninsula Press, 1983. ISBN 0-941912-03-5〕 The community was named after Lake Ladoga, in Russia. *Limestone is an unincorporated community on M-67 about six miles (10 km) south of Chatham at . It was first settled in 1889. A post office was established on October 12, 1892, with John H. Johnson as the first postmaster. It was named for the limestone bed of Johnson Creek which flows through the area. The post office was discontinued on July 15, 1984. * Kiva is an unincorporated community at . The Huber family were the first white settlers in the area in 1880, which was then known as Whitefish, due to its location on the Whitefish River, and later as West Limestone from its location in Limestone Township. A post office was established on December 11, 1915, named Kiva, after a shortened form of the name of the first postmaster, Sigrid Kivimaki. The office was discontinued on August 11, 1967.〔 * Traunik is an unincorporated community at the junction of county highways H-01 and H-44 on a branch of the Soo Line Railroad at . George Nickel homesteaded of land here in about 1895. The community began to grow rapidly in about 1910 with an influx of Slovene immigrants to work in area lumber camps. The place was first known as "Buckeye Landing" and "Buckeye Spur", after the Buckeye Land & Lumber Company. Storekeeper Louis Mikulich (Mikulič〔(Gornick, Anton and Mary. 1945 (11 Jan.). "Zahvala" ''Glas naroda: najstarejši list slovenskih delavcev v Ameriki'', p. 3 ) 〕) became the first postmaster in July 1927 and renamed the town after the native Slovene village of many of the settlers, Travnik (not to be confused with the Bosnian city of Travnik).〔〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Limestone Township, Michigan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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