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Woodbrook, MichiganWoodbrook: Woodbrook is the name given to a previously isolated tract of wooded glacial dunes in central Cannon Township of Kent County, Michigan. Until the early twentieth century much of its area served as pastureland and small farm fields. With weak sandy soil, multiple springbeds, and steeply inclined hills, a large portion of the enclave was eventually returned to the encrouching, dogwood, poplar, sassafrass, red oak and sugar maple. It is from the impressive growth of its tall hardwoods and the many streams springing from its gullies and black-mud springbeds that Woodbrook gained its name in the late 1960's. Woodbrook charms its visitors with several of its following features: Woodbrook ridge, which runs west to east on the enclave's northern border, conceals a seasonal hilltop pond hosting a symphony of singing frogs in the spring mating season. This pond, informally called "tadpole pond", regularly dissappears in August and September but returns promptly with the November rains. The dogwood canopied south slopes of the ridge provide a view across the entire Bear Creek watershed once autumn has stripped the obscuring trees of their leaves. From the base of Woodbrook ridge, concealed in a sharp ravine, springs Schutte's Creek which winds its way southwesterly through the region toward Gray's Hollow, through Timber Canyon and onward to join Stout Creek. Among the small brooks feeding Schutte's Creek are Clay Creek, which sources from the base of Sassafrass hill, and the Bloodroot and Woodsheart creeks. Once tilled by the Rosenburgs and Armstrongs, and then the Schutte family. Woodbrook's remaining agricultural endeavor is a small Christmas tree farm where friends and family annually join on the Saturday after Thanksgiving to choose their own tannenbaum. Woodbrook is favored by woodland strollers who enjoy visiting Sassafrass Hill, the Picnic Rocks, the High Field, Woodsheart Creek, Woodbrook Ridge and the source-spring of Schutte's Creek.
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