Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Vassar, MI

Vassar is a city in Tuscola County in Michigan's Thumb, founded on March 1, 1849, by a party led by James M. Edmunds and Townsend North, who were looking for a place to build a dam and start a town.

Vassar was named after Edmunds' uncle, Matthew Vassar, the brewer and philanthropist who went on to found Vassar College in New York.

Vassar was the first county seat of Tuscola County, before the seat was moved to Caro in 1860.

Nicknamed the "Cork Pine City," Vassar grew for three decades on lumbering and related industries after its founding.

Vassar became a village in 1871 and a railroad crossing point, where the Michigan Central's Bay City Branch crossed the Port Huron & Northwestern (later Pere Marquette) line between Saginaw and Port Huron.

Vassar's voters chose city status on September 28, 1944, and approved the charter of the City of Vassar on February 19, 1945.

The Cass River flows through Vassar, which sits on the western edge of Vassar Township but governs itself independently.

Vassar had 2,727 residents and 1,076 households in the 2020 census, with a median age of 35.2 years — and by coincidence the 2020 population exactly matched the 2,727 residents counted forty years earlier in 1980.

The Census Bureau classified Vassar as 100% rural in the 2020 census, despite its city status.

Local children attend Vassar Public Schools, including Vassar High School and Townsend North Elementary School, which is named for the city's co-founder.