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Beecher, Michigan

Beecher is in Genesee County.

About Beecher, Michigan

History of Beecher

• Mount Morris Township's first settler was Benjamin Pearson of Avon, New York, who arrived in May 1833 and took sections 25 and 36; the township was formally established February 12, 1855, with its first election held in an abandoned log cabin in the southeast corner.
• The Beecher Metropolitan Water and Sewer District was formed in 1938 and today serves roughly 4,500 homes as an independent utility separate from the City of Flint system.
• Beecher High School, designed by the architectural firm Lyndon and Smith, was named in 1938 to a national list of the finest school buildings in the country.

Landmarks and Places in Beecher

• Beecher High School, the 1938 Lyndon and Smith building in Mount Morris that made a national list of the country's finest school buildings, lost its gymnasium and auditorium roofs to the 1953 tornado, closed in 2004, and is being restored to reopen in 2026.
• Buell Elementary School, site of the February 29, 2000 shooting of Kayla Rolland.
• Dailey Elementary School, the district's preschool-through-sixth-grade building in Mount Morris.

The Beecher Economy

• The 2000 census recorded a median household income of $25,925 with 30.3 percent of residents below the poverty line.

Community Life in Beecher

• The Beecher Buccaneers are the community's identity; the mascot is so central that the whole area is known as Buc-town.
• Carl Banks graduated from Beecher in 1980, went to Michigan State, was taken third overall in the 1984 NFL draft, won two Super Bowls with the New York Giants, made the 1987 Pro Bowl and the NFL 1980s All-Decade Team, and recorded 14 tackles in Super Bowl XXI. He later became a Giants radio analyst.

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