![]() The natural prospect here described has often been the theme of delightful comment, and is justly the source of a more than ordinary local pride. North, east, and west a frame of verdure-clad hills shuts in the picture and embellishes it with rich color and impressive surroundings. At his feet and stretching away upon either hand lies a broad-reaching valley, upon whose bosom in picturesque beauty repose the villages of Lyons and Muir, and through which like silver threads wind the Grand and Maple Rivers. South of the town one may gain from the hill over-looking the river a magnificent view. The river flows from the south through the centre of the village, margined by high abrupt bluffs and thickly-wooded banks. The village of Lyons, charmingly situated in a fertile valley upon both sides of the Grand River, invited the attention of the pioneer at an early day both by reason of its picturesque location and the presence of fine water-power. The same year the average in the State at large was 18.79 bushels per acre. ![]() In 1878 there were 5,175 acres of wheat, and the yield thereon 140,347 bushels, or an average of 27.12 bushels per acre. As an agricultural district it ranks with the highest in the State, and excels especially as a wheat-producing region. In population the township has slightly declined in ten years from two thousand eight hundred and fifty-five in 1870, to two thousand seven hundred and forty-nine in 1880. ![]() The township boasts, likewise, three sizable incorporated villages - Lyons, Muir, and Pewamo. Upon the former in Lyons are the stations of Muir and Pewamo upon the latter there is none. Two lines of railway traverse the township - the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee, and the Detroit, Lansing and Northern. It enters the town at section 21, and, flowing north and west, joins the Maple on section 9. Stony Creek, like the Grand River, is a mill-stream, although scarcely to be compared in that respect with the latter. It possesses no mill-power, but serves a useful purpose to lumber-men for the transportation of logs. The Maple, a sluggish stream, flows south and west from section 2, is joined by Stony Creek on section 9, and itself joins the Grand on section 18. The Grand is in Lyons a picturesque and rapidly-flowing stream, dotted here and there with islands and fringed with high wooded banks, while its graceful curves are pretty features in the landscape. The town is well watered by the Grand and Maple Rivers and Stony Creek.Įntering at the southwestern corner of section 33, the Grand River flows north and west in an exceedingly erratic course through sections 33, 28, 29, 20, 19, and 18, upon which latter it receives the waters of the Maple and passes out of the township. Lyons, one of the earliest settled of the townships of Ionia County, is known as United States survey township 7, in range 5 west, having North Plains on the north, Portland on the south, Clinton County on the east, and Ionia on the west. Ensign & Co., 1881 transcribed by Genealogy Trails Transcription Team Source: "History of Ionia & Montcalm Counties, Michigan. Lyons Township History in Ionia County, Michigan
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