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A picturesque country farm setting, Cabin Creek Farm is located in South-East Michigan.  Named after it's historic log cabin, the farm is home to significant Michigan history. 

Pioneers who ventured into this part of the untamed Michigan Territory in the 1830’s were a hardy group of optimists. With strong backs and a broad ax they cleared the timber and built their cabins in the wilderness that would become Bedford Township.

One of the few remaining pioneer log cabins in all of Bedford Township is a sturdy structure located on a sandy spot at 10488 Secor Road. It was built on 160 acres of land purchased for $282.56 by Daniel Greenvault in 1836. The William Powlesland family came to this area from England and settled into the cabin about 1844 on the Greenvault/Chittenden farm. The Powlesland men worked as farm hands on this, the largest dairy farm in Monroe County. It had the biggest dairy barn in all of Michigan, and that building would later be destroyed in a tornado, which thankfully bypassed the cabin. Other owners of this land in the late 1870’s were L. Clarke and B. Ellis Bullock, however, locals still refer to it as the Chittenden farm.

In the early 1900’s, Asa and Mary Osborn would occupy the cabin. Asa was in ill health, so son Henry, his wife Ellen and children Melvin, Edith, and Bessie all moved in with them. Henry, Jr., was born in April of 1910, filling the little cabin to overflowing.

The next caretakers of the cabin were Grace and Gene Lennard. Current owners are painstakingly restoring this historic cabin. It is a slow process, but a labor of love, as they work to preserve this nearly 200 year-old cabin for future generations.

by Trudy Urbani,
Bedford Township Historian