It is 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Interstate 69, with access from Exit 163 (Lake Pleasant Road).

A post office named "Mill Station" was established on October 9, 1867, with Oscar A. Williams as the first postmaster.

The office was renamed "Elk Lake" on September 12, 1870, and became "Attica", after the township, on February 1, 1871.

[7] The Attica Hotel, built in Attica, Michigan in the early 1870s, was originally called the Williams House and later the Schirmer House.The Williams family had 14 children, and there are five bedrooms on the second floor wing.

At one time, there were a total of nine doors, and four porches, and the hotel held a post office.