J. Lockwood, a War of 1812 veteran, received the first land grant in Huntington Woods, signed by President James Monroe, in 1824. The area comprised some nine farms until 1916 when Fred Remole, owner, platted and recorded a part of the site as Banks Park. Other parts were the subdivisions of Huntington Woods, Manor, Bronx, and Huntington Park, and the unplatted fifty-acre tract called Hannan's West. These subdivisions were a part of Royal Oak Township until incorporated as the village of Huntington Woods in 1926. It was later incorporated as a city in 1932.