Washtenaw County, Michigan
Healthy Home Assessments in Salem Township
Rural township of about 7,000 in Washtenaw's northeast corner, settled from 1825 and still anchored by its 19th-century hamlet and schoolhouse. Dr. Jadan walks the whole house and reports plainly.
Salem Township, house by house
Worth knowing: Home of the only surviving one-room stone schoolhouse in Washtenaw County, the 1857 Jarvis Stone School. Some 5,930 residents occupy about 2,030 households.
The housing stock
Census five-year estimates through 2023 put 76.8% of housing units in detached single-family homes and 91.0% of occupied units with their owners. Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher come to 37.3%. Building is recorded here from 1830. An older envelope handles air and moisture differently.
With owner-occupancy at 91.0%, the report can follow moisture from the roofline down to the slab without stopping at a lease boundary.
Named places in Salem Township:
- Jarvis Stone School. 1857 one-room schoolhouse that taught local children for 110 years until 1967, the only surviving one-room stone school in Washtenaw County.
- Dickerson Barn. 1830 barn preserved beside the stone school in the county-designated local historic district of 2013.
- Salem hamlet. Settlement dating to the Dickinson brothers' 1825 arrival, whose post office carried the names Rider's and Renwick before becoming Salem in 1846.
- Salem farm country. Rolling rural land in Washtenaw's northeast corner bordering the Northville area.
- Historical society grounds. Salem Area Historical Society campus at the stone school district.
Where the addresses are
Salem Township also contains 2 smaller settlements: Salem and Brookeville. Salem: Historic hamlet in the township's northeast. Brookeville: Unincorporated community within the township. The 48105, 48167, 48168, 48170, 48175 and 48178 ZIP codes cover these addresses.