The Remains of Omard, a Ghost Town in Sanilac County

The village of Omard, now considered a ghost town, can be found at the intersection of Peck Rd and Isles Rd, Flynn Township, in Sanilac County.

It was mostly a postal service, but it also had a general store, church, schoolhouse and blacksmith shop. Omard's first building was a schoolhouse, erected in 1869 at the same time Flynn Township was established. The township was named after Thomas Flynn, who ended up becoming the first township supervisor.

Before a church was built, religious services were held in the school. The post office followed in 1871, housed within a separate unknown store. It closed in 1904, when all mail was re-routed to Brown City, where it remains to this day.

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The Omard Cemetery was founded in the early 1890s just west of town on donated private property. The Omard Methodist Episcopal Church was established not long afterward (1896) where it still stands, holding services.

A second schoolhouse (now demolished) was built on land now a part of Blattland Farms. It was operational up to the 1950s. The old general store structure still stands on the northeast corner of the intersection, at times called the Omard Country Store, the Omard Store, and Murray Blatt’s Store. The store has not been operational since the 1970s but is believed to be inhabited.

The only remnants of Omard are the cemetery, church and old general store.

The atlases shown in the gallery below show how Omard was in the 1890s and how it declined in the early 1900s.