SR 4 runs North-South smack though the middle of Hope and meets SR 43 at the very edge of town.

One of the earliest settlers in Hope, came from from Watertown, Wisconsin around 1860 and barely escaped conscription by the Confederate forces from Missouri. Continuing West, this family settled at a spot on Turkey Creek, in Banner Township and built a log cabin on the site. The patriarch of the family was a butcher, something of a dentist, raised grapes and apples and was a pioneer ministers as well. The family helped to establish this community. Wiuth favorable treatment shown to Civil War veterans under the Homestead Act of 1862; around 1871, a group of about forty Michigan veterans and craftsmen settled in the immediate area of what would become Hope and began to plan a town site. In

Hon. John Barker