Waterford Hill, a summit in Independence Township, Oakland County, Michigan, rises 1,150 feet and stands as the township’s second-highest point. Formed about 14,000 years ago during the retreat of the last continental glacier, it is part of a lake-filled landscape shaped by moraines and the nearby Clinton River. Its recorded history begins with early nineteenth-century settlement and a succession of landowners whose names survive in local places such as Moon Valley and Van Norman Lake. Once home to farms and orchards, the hill changed in the twentieth century as Ernest W. Seaholm planted its pines and suburban subdivisions gradually turned it into a prominent residential area.