Needmore

Andrew Nickle, a native of Ireland, made the first government land purchase here in 1837, but while he went to get his family, Orrin Rowland and Henry Clark became the first actual settlers; William Crother lived here with Roxana, believed to be his wife; her son-in-law had Crother sued for bigamy and won; while her lawyer, Edward Bradley, was a state senator, the townspeople had him petition that the town be named Roxana; the enrolling clerk made the final "a" look more like a "d" and the name became Roxand; but its post office, opened on Dec. 31, 1849, with John Ewing as its first postmaster, was spelled Roxana; the office operated until March 31, 1903; the village was also called Needmore and is on some maps as such.

That run-on sentence from Michigan Place Names by Walter Romig. Who says history can't be fun?

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The photograph shows what used to be Larry's Body Shop at the corner of Wheaton and Needmore, which is to say in Needmore. As the quotation indicates, Needmore's been settled since the 1830s.