The area is known as Pleasant Lake, or Layton’s Corners, or Henrietta.
Henrietta Township was organized in 1837 and named West Portage, west of the two Portage Lakes. The following year, a post office opened; and in 1839, another settler, Henry Hurd, renamed the town ‘Henrietta’ after his hometown in New York.
Henrietta was also called “Layton’s Corners”, named after L.J. Layton, who owned the hunk of land found at the southeast and west corners of the downtown intersection. Hard to fathom, but the little downtown area had quite a few businesses: blacksmith, the “Pleasant Lake House”, post office, and general store…