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Fort Gratiot Township (/ ˈ ɡ r æ ʃ ɪ t / GRASH-it) [3] is a charter township of St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 11,242 at the 2020 Census . [ 4 ] It is named for Fort Gratiot , an American fort located there off and on between 1814 and 1879.
Soldiers occupied Fort Gratiot until 1822 and then abandoned the fort. Lucius Lyon built Fort Gratiot Light north of Fort Gratiot in 1825–1829. The Army then returned from 1828, and rebuilt the fort to a somewhat smaller size than the original, [ 4 ] also building some timber-framed structures on the site, including a hospital and officer's ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... 6503 Dyke Rd. , Clay Township ... Fort Gratiot. April 14, 1980
In 1688 the French abandoned this fort. The site was incorporated into Fort Gratiot in 1814. A park has been established at the former site of the fort. Fort Gratiot Light. The Fort Gratiot Lighthouse was built in 1829 to replace a tower destroyed by a storm. In the 1860s workers extended the tower to its present height of 84 feet (26 m).
Fort Gratiot officials are looking to take a major step in figuring out plans to develop a 100-acre section of land the township owns on Parker Road. ... The latter firm has also worked with Fort ...
Fort Gratiot Supervisor Rob Crawford said the township was glad to see the Lake Huron Woods project move forward on the 11-acre site west of its current facility. The project when through the ...
Gratiot Township was a civil township of Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located in the northeast corner of the county, the township's eastern and southern border was with Grosse Pointe Township along Mack Road (now Mack Avenue). The northern border was the Macomb County line, and the western border was with Hamtramck Township.
The Fort Gratiot Hospital is part of the light station tour, which along with climbing the lighthouse, does require an admission cost. Admission to the light station park, which is open daily from ...