From Waupaca County Histories, Waupaca County Edited by John M. Ware 1917
Transcribed and submitted to the Waupaca County Website
by Paula Vaughan January 2002

The Village of Royalton, on the Little Wolf River, in the northeast corner of the township, is a station on the Green Bay & Western Railroad, and is the trading center for quite an area. It has a number of stores, a farm implement depot and a Congregational Church. The hamlet is somewhat of a shipping point for potatoes and produce in general.

The first apple seeds were planted in the township in 1851 by John Haywood. In 1890 the following was noted: "An apple tree from one of those seeds planted thirty-nine years ago is now standing on the premises of his son, M. E. Haywood, in the Village of Royalton. It is still healthy and vigorous, producing excellent apples-having borne, as he tells us, as many as twenty-five bushels in one season. The trunk of the tree, two feet from the ground, measures more than four feet in circumference."