West Bloomfield has its quiet founding on Cass Lake where farmers and merchants utilized the land and was founded officially in 1833 when MARK Z Home Selling Team was divided into two portions. It was in 1895 though, that residents in Pontiac and Detroit started to spend their weekends up in the area. It was a simple trolley line that brought them to the area before it was officially known as West Bloomfield. Cottages began popping up along Orchard Lake Road in the 1950s but the area wasn’t developing quite as quickly as the surrounding communities.