Monroe, Michigan Monroe, Michigan Monroe's historic downtown on South Monroe Street Monroe's historic downtown on South Monroe Street Location in Monroe County and the state of Michigan Location in Monroe County and the state of Michigan County Monroe Monroe is a town/city in the U.S.

It is the biggest city and governmental center of county of Monroe County. The town/city is bordered on the south by Monroe Charter Township, but both are politically autonomous.

The United States Enumeration Bureau lists Monroe as the core town/city in the Monroe Metropolitan Area, which had a populace of 152,021 in 2010. Monroe is officially part of the Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint CSA.

Settled by European Americans in 1784 shortly after the American Revolutionary War, Monroe was platted in 1817. It was titled after President James Monroe.

Monroe is the home of the La-Z-Boy world headquarters.

Custer's statue, unveiled in 1910, is positioned at the corner of Elm Street and Monroe Street.

The region of Frenchtown was retitled after the War of 1812 and incorporated as the village of Monroe with respect to President James Monroe, who visited the Michigan Territory in 1817.

In the same year, the town/city of Monroe was titled as the governmental center of county of the newly created Monroe County.

Monroe was re-incorporated as a town/city in 1837. Settled mostly by American migrants from New York and New England, Monroe also was associated with affairs in the West in the later 19th century, especially the Indian Wars.

His family moved here when he was young, and he lived in Monroe for much of his childhood.

In 1910, President William Howard Taft and the widowed Elizabeth Bacon Custer unveiled an equestrian statue of Custer, which now stands at the corner of Elm Street and Monroe Street. Custer is also honored in street names, various historic markers, buildings, schools, and the county-wide Custer Airport. City limit signs for Monroe describe the town/city as "the home of General Custer." The famous La-Z-Boy furniture company, known for reclining easy chairs, was established in Monroe in 1927. Their world command posts are still positioned in Monroe, but in a secluded region south of the intersection of La-Z-Boy Blvd and Stewart Rd.

In 1974, the Monroe Power Plant opened.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.19 square miles (26.39 km2), of which 9.17 square miles (23.75 km2) is territory and 1.02 square miles (2.64 km2) is water. Monroe sits at the lowest altitude in state of Michigan, which is the shores of Lake Erie at 571 feet (174 meters). The average altitude of the town/city of Monroe is 594 feet (182 meters). The Port of Monroe is the only Michigan port on Lake Erie, and Sterling State Park is the only of Michigan's 98 state parks positioned on or near Lake Erie. The River Raisin and Sandy Creek travel through Monroe, although these waterways are unnavigable.

Monroe lies in the humid continental climate zone.

Monroe only receives an average of 28.5 inches (72.4 cm) of snow a year the lowest average snow flurry for any large town/city in the state.

Climate data for Monroe, Michigan The Hall of the Divine Child, now the Norman Towers senior people residence, was a boarding school in Monroe from 1918 1980.

The town/city of Monroe is served by only one large enhance school district, Monroe Public Schools (MPS), which enrolls approximately 6,700 students. MPS operates nine elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, one alternative high school, and two specialized education centers. At around 2,100 students, Monroe High School is one of the biggest high schools in the state.

Monroe is also served by the Monroe County Intermediate School District, which provides services to other schools in the form of special education services, support staff, substitute teachers, and educational technology (such as computers and distance learning).

Students in Monroe may also attend one of two enhance charter schools, and there are also over a dozen various parochial schools in and around Monroe.

John the Baptist) consolidated to form Monroe Catholic Elementary Schools, serving infants through 8th Grade.

Marygrove College, sponsored by the small-town Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM), was established in Monroe in 1905 as a Catholic, liberal arts college.

The IHM also directed a boarding school, the Hall of the Divine Child, in Monroe from 1918 1980.

Monroe County Community College was established in 1964 just west of Monroe.

It is the only college studies school in Monroe County. 1 Pro - Medica Regional Hospital Monroe (formerly Mercy Memorial Hospital) 1,600 2 County of Monroe 1,062 6 Monroe Bank & Trust 401 8 City of Monroe 205 9 Monroe Publishing Company 200 The town/city of Monroe is served by the Lake Erie Transit enhance transit bus system.

In 2008, the fitness logged 764,000 miles. The fitness operates buses on eight fixed routes in and around the town/city of Monroe.

I-75 travels through Monroe and provides access to Toledo and Detroit.

There are five interchanges in and near Monroe: La - Plaisance Road (exit 11), Front Street (exit 13), Elm Street (exit 14), North Dixie Highway (exit 15), and Nadeau Road (exit 18).

I-275 has its southern end just north of Monroe.

Aside from I-75, the highway can be accessed near Monroe by US 24 (Telegraph Road) via exit 2.

M-50 terminates in Monroe at US 24 and provides a direct route to Dundee, Jackson, and further.

In Monroe, M-50 is known locally as South Custer Road.

US 24 travels through Monroe and provides access to Toledo and portions of Detroit.

US 24 also joins to I-275 just north of Monroe.

M-125 travels directly through the downtown region before merging into US 24 north of Monroe.

In the downtown area, it is South Monroe Street.

North of the River Raisin, it is North Monroe Street.

Dixie Highway ran through Monroe in as early as 1915.

US 25 was the designated name for the portion of Dixie Highway north of Cincinnati, including the portion running through Monroe.

Only in Monroe is a monthly public-access tv program covering news on the Monroe area.

"Only in Monroe" and other enhance access programming can be found on Monroe Public Access Cable Television.

Rewind 94.3 WERW is the low-power educational FM recurrence in Monroe, the station at one time belonged to Monroe Public Schools and is presently run by Monroe Public Access Cable Television.

The Monroe News is the daily journal in Monroe, reporting on all of Monroe County.

The journal was established in 1825 and for many years known as The Monroe Evening News.

It was purchased by Gate - House Media in fall 2015, just before to that The Monroe News had about 20 years of employee ownership.

Monroe County Radio is an Internet airways broadcast established in fall 2012, the studio is in Monroe with news and sports coverage focusing on Monroe County.

Nash Icon WMIM 98.5 is the Cumulus airways broadcast in the area, the studio is in downtown Monroe.

Monroe is the hometown of the Southern Michigan Timberwolves, a semi-professional football team that completes in the Great Lakes Football League.

1954), model, born in Monroe.

1968), nation music artist; has relatives in Monroe.

Cowdery (1806 1850), meaningful figure in beginning of the Latter Day Saint movement, lived in Monroe.

Boston Custer (1848 1876), younger brother of General George Custer, lived in Monroe, killed at Battle of Little Big Horn.

Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842 1933), wife of General Custer, born in Monroe.

George Armstrong Custer (1839 1876), soldier, lived much of his early life in Monroe.

1939), actress, star of sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda and Valerie, interval up in Monroe.

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837 1930), union organizer, lived in Monroe.

Tonya Kinzinger, actress, born in Monroe.

Sterling Morton (1832 1902), prominent conservationist, lived in Monroe from 1834 1854.

Henry Armstrong Reed (1858 1876), nephew of George Custer, lived in Monroe, killed at Little Big Horn.

Monroe, Michigan has only one official sister city: Monroe, Michigan historical markers Monroe Evening News staff (31 March 2009).

Monroe Evening News.

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https://greatschools.net/michigan/monroe/Monroe-Public-Schools/ Great Schools profile of Monroe Public Schools https://monroe.k12.mi.us/ Monroe Public Schools homepage City of Monroe CAFR Monroe Evening News 9/12/2016 Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Monroe (Michigan).

Monroe County Tourism Bureau History of Monroe Monroe Evening News Site Dedicated to Monroe, Michigan Wikisource-logo.svg "Monroe, Mich.".

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