Musgrove Evans platted this area in 1827, and the first settlers, Erastus and Sally Ingersoll and their twelve children, arrived in 1835. The township was organized in 1842, when citizens chose the name Delta at the first township meeting, elected Ingersolls to nine of the nineteen township offices, appropriated $100 for bridges and roads, and decreed that bulls and boar hogs had to be fenced in. By 1887 the area was supported mainly by farming and by grist and sawmills. A clapboard township hall erected in the mid-1870s served until 1955, when a combination fire chief's residence and township hall replaced it on the site of the old Soper one-room schoolhouse one mile north of the earlier structure. Between 1940 and 1987, Delta Township's population grew from 2,618 to nearly 28,000, and its state tax evaluation rose from $1.48 million to $475 million. Charter status attained in 1962 helped drive growth that brought Delta the moniker fastest growing township in Michigan. Local government services are now directed from a building completed in 1970. As farms became residential subdivisions and apartment complexes, the township created an extensive recreation facility. The Sands Moon House, a log cabin built around 1855, was moved to Woldumar Nature Center in 1980 when a large industrial plant was built on its original site, and there it became a walk-in demonstration museum commemorating Delta's early pioneers.