This county, adjoining that of Oakland on the north, has begun to attract the attention of emigrants; and a considerable number, of industrial habits and of respectable characters, have made arrangements to settle in the county. The seat of justice for the county has been selected; it is about thirty miles from Pontiac, and 25 miles from Auburn and Rochester, in the county of Oakland. There are already six families residing at the county seat—a good saw-mill has also been recently erected there, which is now in operation.

We have conversed with gentlemen who have examined Lapeer county, and they unite in pronouncing the land generally, of an excellent quality. The country is represented as pleasantly undulating, and interspersed with openings, prairies, and woodlands. It is watered by the Flint river and numerous small streams, on some of which, as well as on the river, there are several tracts of fine interval lands. Hickory, White wood, Black walnut, various kinds of Oak, among which is the Bur Oak, and some tracts of excellent Pine, can be found among the timber.

Democratic Free Press (Detroit, MI) Thursday, 31 May 1832, page 3