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- Erie was started in 1790 by Métis people moving south from Monroe. Early on, a log church named St. Joseph sur la Baie Miami was built here. Father Gabriel Richard often conducted mass here. The township was officially organized as one of the first five townships in Monroe County, Michigan Territory, in 1827.
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History. Erie was started in 1790 by Métis people moving south from Monroe. Early on, a log church named St. Joseph sur la Baie Miami was built here. Father Gabriel Richard often conducted mass here. The township was officially organized as one of the first five townships in Monroe County, Michigan Territory, in 1827.
The Erie Historians Group has been gathering local history since it formed in 2010, when Bedford area Historian, Trudy Urbani, offered her Erie area history collection as a starting point for expansion by the residents of Erie Township.
Jul 18, 2022 · This small exclave known as the “Lost Peninsula” is part of Monroe County and is the southeastern-most corner of the state. This geographic oddity was a result of a territorial dispute in 1835.
When packet boats reached Buffalo, New York, passengers boarded steamboats for the three-day journey through Lake Erie to Detroit, Michigan or Toledo, Ohio. Once in Detroit or Toledo people could stay there or move inland to settle in Michigan. Originally published in Michigan History Kids magazine in Spring 2004.
Joining the three railroads at Toledo by 1852 was the Wabash & Erie Canal, which began in 1843 down river and crossed through the middle of downtown Toledo headed to Fort Wayne, Indiana and beyond. At 460 miles, it was the longest man-made canal in U.S. history [Wiki]. (See map in light blue).
Nov 18, 2022 · Assembled in Erie from sections made in Pittsburgh, Michigan, the first iron hulled ship in the U.S. Navy, was launched in Erie on December 5-6, 1843, and commissioned in 1844. The ship was 164 feet long, 27 feet wide and carried a crew of 88-120 officers, men and Marines.
The Erie people were Indigenous people historically living on the south shore of Lake Erie. An Iroquoian group, they lived in what is now western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania, and northern Ohio before 1658.
