When was Hubbardston MI founded?
Hubbardston was formally established as a village in 1854, named after Thomas Hubbard of Hubbard, Taylor & Co., a lumber company operating a local sawmill. The village was officially incorporated in 1867. However, the area's settlement history goes back further — Hector Hayes and Hiram Brown arrived as the first Euro-American settlers in October 1836, and the first Irish Catholic settler, John Cowman, arrived in 1849.