![]() The people are chiefly engaged in agricultural pursuits, wheat, live-stock, and lumber, being the principal articles of shipment. Intelligently cultivated, it is productive, and yields generously of fruit, grain, etc. alternating belts or strips of clay and sandy loam, with here and there, in the lower portions, alluvial deposits. Wayland soil affords no exception to that which characterizes Michigan lands generally, - i.e. These beautiful and valuable monarchs of the forest, however, with the exception of Balch's tract, fell early victims to the rapacity of the all-pervading " shingle-weavers" of the pioneer period many of them, indeed, before the laud came into market, or while assessed as non-resident. ![]() In the vicinity of the present village of Wayland, also in the northeastern and southeastern parts of the township, extensive pine-groves once existed. Its surface, generally rolling, was cumbered originally with a heavy growth of timber, the deciduous varieties common to this region predominating. The adjoining townships are Leighton on the north, Hopkins on the west, Martin on the south, and Yankee Springs, in Barry County, on the cast. It was formed from Martin in 1843, and began a separate existence, April 1, 1844. This township, situated on the eastern border of Allegan County, north of the centre, embraces territory designated in the field-notes of the original survey as township number 3 north, of range number 11 west. Source: History of Allegan and Barry counties, Michigan, 1880 History of Wayland Township in Allegan County, Michigan
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