Browse Collections (10 total)
Ingersoll Family
Images of the Ingersoll family, first settlers of Delta Township.
eBooks
Collection of books with information about or related to the history of Delta Township and the Lansing area.
Delta Mills
"Erastus S. Ingersoll settled here in 1836 and constructed a water-powered sawmill. A gristmill was added, and in 1840 a resident wrote that people…
Delta Mills School
The first school in Delta Township was built in 1839 on what is now the corner of Delta River Drive and Ingersoll Road. The school was a one-room wood…
Delta Mills Bridge
The steel span bridge with wood floor spanning the Grand River along Webster Road was built in either 1891 or 1892. The wooden floor was re-planked in…
Millett
Millett or Millett's Station is a small hamlet in the southeast part of Delta Township, at one point it contained a saw-mill (or oar-factory), a…
Old Maid Swamp
The earliest travelers to the region had to deal with tough travel conditions taking rarely traveled paths, Indian trails or even blazing trails of…