In Seville Township are three railroad stations, on the line of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern railway, the most prominent one being Riverdale. A second, bearing the name of the township, is a small hamlet where trains stop only on signal. The third, EIwell, is a more important station.

In agricultural products this township ranks fourth in the county, and has a large lumber trade. John D. Malory settled on section 24, in 1855. Henry Boyer came the same year and settled in his neighborhood.

The latter tells a story on one of his neighbors to illustrate how thin a man can get on a" mixed "diet. The family, consisting of six persons, subsisted on a pint of milk with maple sugar and leeks, and a soup made from bass wood buds. The husband and father was working as hard as he was able, to clear up a little farm, but often complained to Mr. Boyer that his "liver" knocked against his ribs so hard that he could scarcely split rails!

The impassable roads of an early day impeded the immigration which came later. It is related that some parties, while out hunting came to a very deep mud-hole which extended across the road. A man with a long ox-gad was threshing around in the mine as they came in sight. Upon being questioned, he declared that he had driven into the marsh his team of oxen, and they were then buried in the mud.

That pre-historic race, the "Mound-Builders", have lived in this township, and Messrs. R. F. Kedzie, C. B. K. Bangs and F. W. Hastings, of the State Agricultural College, have made excavations in several of the mounds. One was explored on section 13, in which a number of relic s were found. On section 14, they found two skeletons, in a bad state of preservation. The last mound examined was on section 31. This was situated on a level plain. It was a perfect cone, 10 feet high and 40 feet in diameter at the base. This wis thoroughly examined, and some excellent specimens found, consisting of stone vessels and implements, besides pieces of skeletons, etc. We gaze with reverential awe upon the evidence presented of those peculiar people, who, hundreds of years ago, inhabited our country, and of whom no trace remains save these historic mounds, which alone mark their last resting-place. Their history died with them - let them rest. The people of Seville Township have been served by the following nine supervisors.

 
Carlisle Weeks................1856
Henry Boyer.................. 1857-9
Henry Shults................. 1860-1
Henry Boyer.................. 1862
Ira Amsbury.................. 1863
Henry Boyer.................. 1864 -5
Henry Shults................. 1866
Ira Amsbury.................. 1867
James L. Shults...............1868-71
Ira Amsbury...................1872
Wm. J. Moffat................ 1873
James I. Shults...............1874
James R. Errett.............. 1875-6
P. D. Egan................... 1877-8
James R. Errett...............1879-80
James L. Shults...............1881
William Pitt..................1882 3