Tuscola County, Michigan
Elmwood Township Real Estate and Local Guide
Elmwood Township is a rural civil township of about 1,060 residents (2020 census) in northern Tuscola County bordering Huron County; organized as Waterloo in 1860 and renamed Elmwood by the state legislature in 1863
Living in Elmwood Township
Home of the Thumb Octagon Barn, a rare eight-sided barn near Gagetown that is a Michigan State Registry historic site, an agricultural museum, and host of the annual Fall Family Days. Source: en.wikipedia.org
Homes in Elmwood Township
What makes Elmwood Township home
Thumb Octagon Barn (Purdy Octagon Barn)
Rare eight-sided barn built for James Purdy in the early 1920s near Gagetown; on the Michigan State Registry of Historic Sites and now the Thumb Octagon Barn Agricultural Museum
St. Agatha Catholic Church, Gagetown
Parish established 1879 as the first Catholic church in Tuscola County; brick church dedicated 1917, in Gagetown in the township's northeast corner
Elmwood Township State Game Area
State game area of about 271 acres in Tuscola County managed by the Michigan DNR for hunting and wildlife
Gagetown State Game Area
About 1,344 acres across Huron and Tuscola counties, partly near Gagetown; the DNR incorporated the Octagon Barn property into it in 1991
Elmwood Township areas to know
Gagetown
Incorporated village in the northeastern corner of the township, platted by Joseph Gage in 1871
Colwood
Unincorporated community on the boundary between Elmwood and Columbia townships
Elmwood
Unincorporated community on the boundary between Elmwood and Ellington townships at Elmwood Road and M-81