The township was established in the early 1860s, the first Post Office opening on 1 January 1861.

In the 1840s early settlers including the Geeves family founded the township of Geeveston, and laid the first track to the Hartz Mountains.

Two early pioneers were George Ela, after whom the Ela township is named, and Seth Paine, who established a number of commercial ventures in the town.

Arrowsmith takes its name from the township in which it was located, which had been named for early settler Ezekiel Arrowsmith.

James Broughton, Arvin Webster, William Elliott, Owen Coats and Lemuel Truitt were also early prominent citizens of the township.

At an early hour delegations came pouring in from every township in the county, and even from the adjoining counties.

Underwood is located in Norwalk Township, so the early history of the township is also of the town.

On March 30, 1857, however, the township was set off and organized as Eustis Plantation, named after its early proprietor.

For a very brief period in the early 1890s, a town called Watervale was inhabited in the township along Lower Herring Lake.

The first township meeting and election were held at the house of Horace Purdy early in May 1838.

* The city of Battle Creek is adjacent to the township on the northwest and has annexed land that was formerly within the township, in particular the former village of Verona was an early rival to Battle Creek.

Most of the early settlers were from New York and Vermont and were attracted to the township by its rich agricultural land.

The western section of the township is the largest, and it includes most all of the township's industrial developments including the large General Motors Lansing Craft Centre and General Motors Lansing Metal Center automobile factories, both of which were closed and shuttered in early 2006.

* Cooks Corners is the location of an early settlement in the township at near the junction of M-44 and M-91 just west of Belding.

Communities in the township have included Idlewild, which still exists, and Nirvana, an early lumbering center that has entirely disappeared.

As of the early 2000s, the unincorporated community of Leland, which lies totally within the township, was the county seat of Leelanau County.

The community was named for the township, which in turn was named for Sidney, Ohio, the home of some of its early settlers.

Portions of the township were also annexed into the Village of Northville in the early 1900s ( along Baseline Road ) and the City of Northville in the 1950s.

Out of concern for the residential growth during the 1970s and its effects on the entire township, the Planning Commission embarked on a comprehensive review of the Master Plan and the Zoning Map in the early 1980s.

The township was named for Judge Samuel William Dexter, but he named the village for his father Samuel Dexter, the early American statesman.

* Scio is the former site of an early community in the township on the Huron River about midway between Delhi Mills and Dexter at the current location of the intersection of Zeeb Road and Huron River Drive.

The post office took its name from the township ; however, early township records were destroyed by fire, and it is uncertain why " Scio " was chosen.

Sutton was a small trading post on the Chicago Great Western Railway in the early days of the township.

Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.

He accepted the environment of his destiny -- took root and grew to fulfill the stature of his early promise.

Eventually, these early humans grew to believe that the spirits were invested and interested in human life, and performed rituals to propitiate them.

Abergavenny grew as a town in early Norman times under the protection of the Lords of Abergavenny.

Born in Los Angeles, Holbrook grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, and began drawing at an early age.

Although most early codices were made of papyrus, papyrus was fragile and supplies from Egypt, the only place where papyrus grew and was made into paper, became scanty ; the more durable parchment and vellum gained favor, despite the cost.

During the Warring States Period and the early Han Dynasty, China grew greatly and the need arose for a solid and centralized cadre of government officers able to read and write administrative papers.

Such sentiments especially grew strong in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when ecumenism evolved out of a liberal, non-sectarian perspective on relations to other Christian groups that accompanied the relaxation of Calvinist stringencies held by earlier generations.

As the city's population — and public college enrollment — grew during the early 20th century and the city struggled for resources, the municipal colleges slowly began adopting selective tuition, also known as instructional fees, for a handful of courses and programs.

This lake was covered during the early 18th century as the city grew.

In 1970s and early 1980s, a subculture of C / SCSC analysis grew, but the technique was often ignored or even actively resisted by project managers in both government and industry.

In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.

The modern game grew from English public schools in the early 19th century.

The universe was very violent in its early epochs, and galaxies grew quickly, evolving by accretion of smaller mass galaxies.

However both Anarchism on the left and fascism on the right grew rapidly in Spain in the early 20th century.

In the early part of the 18th century the movement was dominated by Voltaire and Montesquieu, but the movement grew in momentum as the century moved on.

After enjoying significant success in the early to mid-90s, house music grew even larger during the second wave of Progressive House ( 1999 – 2001 ).

During its early history, Christianity grew from a 1st-century Jewish following to a religion that existed across the entire Greco-Roman world and beyond.

With a " concession rule " that required participants to make a certain number of concessions, early debates at IALA sometimes grew from heated to explosive.

Although Wagner became fiercely critical of Brahms as the latter grew in stature and popularity, he was enthusiastically receptive of the early Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel ; Brahms himself, according to many sources ( Swafford, 1999 ), deeply admired Wagner's music, confining his ambivalence only to the dramaturgical precepts of Wagner's theory.

Frankenheimer grew up in New York City and became interested in movies at an early age ; he recalled going to the cinema every weekend.

In the early 1990s, as public awareness grew of the Internet and Usenet, Parry received a great deal of national publicity, including a cover story in Wired magazine, and mentions in Playboy and Time magazine.

An early symphonic poem, Miserae ( 1933 – 1934, first performed in Prague, 1935 ) was condemned by the Nazi regime ; but his work continued to be performed, and his fame grew, abroad.

There were significant improvements for black and other races in the early 20th century as the descendants of former slaves, who had had no educational opportunities, grew up in the post Civil War period and often had some chance to obtain a basic education.