Editing Reading, Michigan (section)

==History==
Reading was settled in 1835 by a group of township locals and was originally named Basswood Corners after clumps of basswood trees located at the main intersection.  It was given a post office named Reading on December 14, 1840 and was named after the township, which itself was named after [[Reading, Pennsylvania]].  The community was [[plat]]ted in 1852 and centered around a new sawmill.  Reading received a railway station in 1869.  It incorporated as a village in 1873 and as a city in 1934.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Walter |last1=Romig |title=Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities |type=Paperback  |orig-date= 1973 |date=October 1, 1986 |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |isbn = 978-0-8143-1838-6 |location=Detroit, Michigan| pages=468–469}}</ref>