17.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

[6]  It was approximately two miles west of the present day city of Otsego.

The site was first explored in 1829 by Giles Scott and the Sherwoods of Rochester, New York, Samuel Foster from Vermont, and Turner Aldrich, Jr. of Cattaraugus County, New York, while searching for pine tracts and a location to construct a mill site.

Aldrich built a water powered saw mill located on Pine Creek, one mile from its mouth in 1831.

The mill constructed by Aldrich is believed to have cut the first lumber in Western Michigan.

[7] Hull Sherwood platted the village named New Rochester at Pine Creek, which remained a prominent settlement through the 1830s.

[7]  In 1836, Giles Scott, who was known as an excellent fiddler constructed the tavern known as Pine Creek House over which he presided until his death in 1840.

[7]  Wash Morter also operated a blacksmith shop at Pine Creek, the original building was relocated to its present location east of the Pine Creek on top of a hill.

[7]  In 1903, the construction of the Pine Creek Dam of the Commonwealth, later known as Consumers Power Company, was completed and after the buildings of the small settlement near the Pine Creek known as New Rochester were either moved or torn down, the area was flooded.