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Facts About Wyoming, MI

Settlement
Through the 1800s, Wyoming would primarily remain an agricultural location and its development occurred near transportation routes in the region. The area that is now the city of Wyoming was the second location settled by European-Americans in Kent County. Robert Howlett, Luther Lincoln Amos Gordon and Stephen Tucker were some of the first settlers in the fall of 1832 with many settling near Buck Creek. Lincoln built the first log shanty in the area in the fall of 1832 while Tucker and Native Americans constructed the first established house for his family in March 1833. The first settlers had a successful harvest, constructing gristmills and sawmills on Buck Creek a year later in 1833. In late 1835, the first wedding occurred with Sylvester Hills and Harriet Burton.

Byron Township (1836–1848)
The town was first organized as Byron Township on May 2, 1836 and was headquartered at the home of Charles H. Oakes in what is now the city of Grandville. It was this year that one of Wyoming’s most notable pioneers, Justice C. Rogers, established his homestead on what is now the southwest corner of 28th Street and Clyde Park Avenue.

The following year in 1837, the launch of the pole boat propelled by a quant, the Cinderella, was celebrated as a major development for the town. A framed house Rogers constructed in the spring of 1836 and was destroyed by a tornado in September 1836. Rogers Mansion was then constructed with the second story being finished in 1839.

Wyoming Township (1848–1959)
On April 3, 1848 the 72 square miles (190 km2) township of Byron divided in half during , with the name of Wyoming being used for the northern 36 square miles (93 km2) portion where the majority of the population was settled. with many settling near Buck Creek. At the time of division, about 500 people lived in Wyoming while a little less than 200 lived in Byron. The name came from the Wyoming County, New York from which the majority of the residents came during the first 16 years. Two years later in 1850, the population of Wyoming Township was counted at 543 people.

In 1870 a settlement known as Fisher’s Station developed around a station on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad. A post office was constructed in 1871 and the area was platted in December 1873. The population of Wyoming Township grew to 2,008 in 1874 while the population of Fisher’s Station was 65 in 1888.

Suburban growth
Wyoming began to grow as a suburb of Grand Rapids in 1890 with the city’s next major area of development occurring in the northeast section of the township with much of the city’s population moving southward in the early 1900s. The City of Grand Rapids started annexing portions of the township and by 1891 had annexed one square mile (2.6 km2) of the city from Division to Clyde Park and from Hall to Burton. In 1902, the Grand Rapids, Holland and Chicago Railway promoted the creation of more plats in the Galewood, Urbandale and Burlingame (GUB) neighborhoods, with the railway providing transportation to downtown Grand Rapids in fifteen minutes. From 1890 to 1906, thirty-two plats were in the GUB neighborhoods. Another section of Wyoming was annexed by Grand Rapids in 1916 that involved half-mile from Burton to Alger and from Clyde Park to Division. Following the end of World War I in 1918, there was a large increase in the platting of residential properties, especially the neighborhoods of Godwin Heights, Home Acres and Wyoming Park, with plat proposals occurring during every town meeting at the time.

With Wyoming developing at such a rapid pace, the Grand Rapids city officials and affiliated business leaders attempted to deter the development of industry in Wyoming, fearing that Grand Rapids would lose skilled workers and wages would increase. One major incident of Grand Rapids preventing industrial development in Wyoming occurred in the early-1920s when Ford Motor Company attempted to purchase an unfinished picric acid on the west side of 44th Street and Clyde Park Avenue that was being constructed during World War I. Kendall Furniture quickly purchased the property before Ford could acquire the site, later selling the property for tax purposes.