Rawsonville is an unincorporated community on the boundary of Washtenaw and Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
[1] Small parts of the historic community of Rawsonville lie under Belleville Lake, which is an artificial reservoir created in 1925 when the Eastern Michigan Edison Company built the French Landing Dam and Powerhouse along the Huron River.
[4] On November 14, 1838, The Van Buren post office was moved to Rawsonville and assumed that name.
The modern community of Rawsonville still exists on land west of the original settlement, and with a commercial district on most of the original settlement's land, with only small portions of the community now being under Belleville lake.
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