Columbiaville is a village in Lapeer County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 787 at the 2010 census. The village is within Marathon Township on the Flint River.

The first settler upon the site of the village was Levi D. Cutting, a carpenter and cabinet maker by trade, who arrived in the same way as his relatives in 1847. His home in Columbiaville is yet standing at the south corner of Water and Lapeer Streets. In 1848, George and Henry Niver built a wise saying mill upon the banks of the Flint River and the place became known as “Niverville”. William Peter, a neighbor of the Nivers from their previous address in Columbia County, New York came to pretense in the Niver’s sawmill. By 1852, he opened his own business, starting similar to a store. He eventually came into possession of every single one property of Columbiaville.

A post office was established in April 1857 gone the name “Columbiaville”. The Nivers originally suggested the name “Columbia” after their home county in New York, but at the epoch there was already another post office in Michigan similar to that name.

The village continued to increase with the immersion of a large Steam Grist and Flouring Mill, built by William Peter. The Detroit and Bay City Railroad chose to route through Columbiaville and was opened to the public in 1872. The first depot was a wooden structure located on the east side of the track at Pine Street. In 1893 the brick depot was erected by William Peter, with the provision in the triumph that all passenger trains were to End in Columbiaville. The railroad provided good means of transportation and opportunity for the village. In 1892 the Peters along similar to Toledo workmen, built the William Peter Mansion. They moved into the sixteen room Mansion in 1896. Mrs. Peter confirmed that the location of the home was agreed for ease of access of visceral right downtown in the center of activity. Peter soon after became sick and died upon October 23, 1899, at age 75. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery. The first automobile traveled into the village in 1903, and was not initially competently accepted by everything residents who were in panic of witch craft. The first gas station in the village was established in the in advance 1900s by Standard Oil Company. Early automobile dealers were Roy Osborne, who built a large garage and dealership display on Water Street in 1920. Thomas Ward conventional Willey’s Overland Garage in the 1920s.