Monroe County, Michigan
Erie Township Real Estate and Local Guide
Erie Township is the southeasternmost municipality in Michigan, a rural Lake Erie shoreline township of 4,299 residents whose settlement began in 1790 with settlers moving south from Monroe
Living in Erie Township
The southeasternmost municipality in the state of Michigan. Source: en.wikipedia.org
Homes in Erie Township
What makes Erie Township home
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Parish founded by French settlers on Bay Creek about 1790 that ranks as the third oldest in the Archdiocese of Detroit and built its present brick church in 1851
Lost Peninsula
Michigan exclave administered by Erie Township whose roughly 140 residents can reach the rest of the state by land only through Ohio
Turtle Island
Lake Erie island near the mouth of the Maumee River split by the Michigan and Ohio state line with its Michigan portion lying in Erie Township
Erie State Game Area
Michigan DNR game area of 3,603 acres of Lake Erie coastal marsh and seasonal mudflats that reaches out to Woodtick Point
Erie Marsh Preserve
Nature Conservancy preserve of 2,216 acres on North Maumee Bay that holds 11 percent of the remaining marshland in southeastern Michigan
Erie Township areas to know
Erie
Unincorporated community in the township's northwest that carried the post office name Bay Settlement from 1827 until 1835
Lost Peninsula
Neighborhood of about 140 residents on Point Place Peninsula between the Ottawa River and Maumee Bay