Orange Risdon promoted the Saline area in an advertisement in the Detroit Gazette on September 10, 1825, calling its land fertile and healthy and its climate well suited to eastern settlers, and he was instrumental in Saline being platted as an unincorporated village in 1832 and incorporated in 1866. The area remained a farming community throughout the 20th century. Saline’s agricultural heritage and broader civic identity are represented through symbols including wheat for the farmer, the transit used by Risdon in his work, an automotive wheel for a major source of local employment, a wagon wheel for Saline’s early role as a hub in Detroit-Chicago shipping, and a tree for the harmonious growth of agriculture and industry, with a surrounding rope symbolizing the strength and character the city draws from its citizens.