Acme Township was organized in January 1891.

There are three villages and postoffices in this township. Acme village is a station on the Pere Marquette Railroad, seven miles east of Traverse City. It was settled about 1855, and now has a saw-mill, a saw and planing-mill, a shingle-mill, a general store, a woolen-mill, blacksmith shop, etc. There are in the township three saw-mills and two shingle-mills. There is a town hall in this village, built at an expense of one thousand dollars, and also a Methodist Episcopal church and a Masonic lodge. The village has a population of about two hundred.

Bates is a station in this township on the Pere Marquette Railroad, eleven miles east of Traverse City. It contains a general store, postoffice and a cold storage warehouse. A large amount of farm produce, especially potatoes and fruit, is shipped from this point.

Yuba is a postoffice located eleven miles northeast of Traverse City on the wagon road leading from Traverse City to Elk Rapids. It is in the center of a flourishing farming community. It has a Methodist Episcopal and a Congregational church.

There are in the township of Acme three public school buildins with a total of four rooms.

From Sprague's History of Grand Traverse and Leelanaw Counties Michigan Edited and compiled by Elvin L. Sprague, Esq. And Mrs. George N. Smith. Published 1903 by B. F. Bowen