Fairgrove, MI

Fairgrove is a village in Tuscola County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census counted 514 residents. The village is located within Fairgrove Township. The settlement of Fairgrove dates back to June 1852 when Amzy Clay bought acreage from Patrick McGlone of neighboring Juniata Township, Michigan. The Michigan Bean Festival is held in Fairgrove on Labor Day weekend, although nearby Kinde was renowned as the "Bean Capital of the World". Michigan Bean Soup has been a staple for over one hundred years in the U.S. Senate dining room. The short version is that Fairgrove carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Fairgrove: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The land surrounding Fairgrove was level, sloping slightly to the northwest.