Tuscola County, Michigan
Tuscola Township Real Estate and Local Guide
Tuscola Township is a rural farming township of about 1,978 residents (2020 census) in southwestern Tuscola County in Michigan's Thumb region, established in 1840, with the Cass River running through it and the city of Vassar on its northeast edge
Living in Tuscola Township
Named Tuscola, a word coined by ethnographer Henry Schoolcraft combining an Ojibwe root for level ground with a Latin ending, taken to mean level or cultivated land. Source: en.wikipedia.org
Homes in Tuscola Township
What makes Tuscola Township home
Lovira Hart, Jr., and Esther Maria Parker Farm
National Register-listed farmstead (added 2004) at 9491 West Frankenmuth Road; land settled in 1836 and held by the same family, with the farmhouse built 1848 to 1852
Cass River
The Cass River runs through the township at section 28 (Bray Road) and carries the Cass River Water Trail, a designated Pure Michigan Water Trail
Tuscola Township Park
Township park at 8561 Van Cleve Road on the Cass River with a playground, picnic tables, ball fields, pavilions, hiking trail, fishing access, and a concrete canoe/kayak launch
Tuscola Township areas to know
Tuscola
Unincorporated community on the Cass River in section 28 at Bray Road; platted in 1850, post office operated 1848 to 1962