Harrisville, MI

Harrisville is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Alcona County. The 2020 census counted 437 residents. The city is surrounded by Harrisville Township but is administratively autonomous. The place was first known as Davison's Mill after Crosier Davison, who in partnership with Simeon Holden, had purchased land and water power rights here in 1854. Harrisville is also home to the famous Glenview Clydesdales. There was an annual Barbershop festival in the city, typically in early September; and there is a large craft show over Labor Day weekend.

The short version is that Harrisville carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Harrisville: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Benjamin Harris and his sons, Levi and Henry, of West Bloomfield, New York, bought out the partners. The city is on the western shore of Lake Huron and has a harbor for recreational boaters. The harbor is a center for salmon and trout fishing.