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Amboy Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan - northwest; The census-designated place of Alvordton is located in central Mill Creek Township. The township lies within the Toledo Strip, a contested ribbon of land over which Ohio and Michigan came to blows in an 1835–36 confrontation known as the Toledo War. [4]
The Mill Creek sawmill enjoyed a dominant market share of the supply of cut timbers in the Straits of Mackinac during the fur trade era, and a millwright's house was built about 1820 near the sawmill to provide a place for the mill operator to live. In 1819, Michael Dousman purchased the mill site and continued to operate it. However, global ...
Illustration of Tenmile Creek from "Picturesque Maumee," 1892. The Ottawa River, also known as Ottawa Creek, is a short river, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long [1] (or about 48 miles (77 km) [1] if Tenmile Creek, the longest tributary, is included), in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan in the United States. [2]
Lake Michigan: 14,336,000 acres (5,802,000 ha) 923 feet (281 m) Multiple 1623080 Middle Lake 240 acres (97 ha) Alpena County: Middle Lake 135 acres (55 ha) Barry County: Milakokia Lake: 1,956 acres (792 ha) 26 feet (7.9 m) Mackinac County: 632299 Mill Lake 116 acres (47 ha) Gogebic County: Mill Lake 130 acres (53 ha) Washtenaw County: Miner Lake
The Lost Peninsula is a small exclave of the U.S. state of Michigan.It is part of Monroe County in the southeasternmost corner of the state.. The Lost Peninsula was created as a result of the Toledo War boundary dispute in 1835 and 1836 to determine whether the State of Ohio or the Michigan Territory would control an area known as the Toledo Strip.
St. Joseph River near Newville in DeKalb County, Indiana. Floodwall along St. Joseph River in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The St. Joseph River (Miami-Illinois: Kociihsasiipi) [1] is an 86.1-mile-long (138.6 km) [2] tributary of the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio and northeastern Indiana in the United States, with headwater tributaries rising in southern Michigan.
The Maumee River watershed was once part of the Great Black Swamp, a remnant of Glacial Lake Maumee, the proglacial ancestor of Lake Erie. The 1,500-square-mile (3,900 km 2 ) swamp was a vast network of forests, wetlands, and grasslands, a rich habitat for numerous species of birds, mammals, fish and flora.
Mill Road Local road Austin Road Local road Palmer Road/Wolf Lake Road Local road Columbia Twp. Mill Street Local road Brooklyn: M-124 (Wampers Lake Road) Michigan highway Columbia Twp. Daugherty Road Local road Monroe Pike Road Local road M-50 (Brooklyn Road) Michigan highway US 12 (Michigan Avenue) U.S. Route Cambridge Twp. Lenawee Miller Highway