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Tecumseh is a small town/city in Lenawee County, Michigan, United States.
Tecumseh is about 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Detroit, 25 miles (40 km) south of Ann Arbor and 40 miles (64 km) north of Toledo, Ohio.
The town/city is surrounded on three sides by Tecumseh Township, but is politically autonomous.
The boundaries of Lenawee County were laid out by a proclamation of the Territorial Governor, Lewis Cass on September 10, 1822. Lenawee remained attached to Monroe County, out of which it was formed, until an act of the Territorial Legislature passed on December 26, 1826, organized the county government.
The first settlement in the county was made two years earlier, on May 21, 1824, in Tecumseh.
Brown and Evans, along with Austin Eli Wing purchased territory there and platted the village of Tecumseh in 1824.
These framers appealed to Governor Cass to locate the governmental center of county of Lenawee at Tecumseh.
Tecumseh remained the governmental center of county until 1838, when it was transferred to Adrian.
The Township of Tecumseh was organized on April 12, 1837, initially encompassing the entire northern third of the county. Panoramic map of Tecumseh, 1868 Just to the north of Tecumseh, the village of Bownville was established in 1823 by Austin Wing.
It was took in by Tecumseh in 1838. This 1848 drawing of the famous Chief Tecumseh was based on a sketch made in 1808.
Tecumseh is positioned in Southeast Michigan.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.94 square miles (15.38 km2), of which 5.70 square miles (14.76 km2) is territory and 0.24 square miles (0.62 km2) is water. There were 3,604 homeholds of which 32.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.0% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 36.1% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 39.8 years.
24.7% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 7.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.4% were from 25 to 44; 27.4% were from 45 to 64; and 15.5% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 3,499 homeholds out of which 33.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 52.8% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 33.2% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.4% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 15.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $46,106, and the median income for a family was $58,239.
About 3.5% of families and 4.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 3.9% of those under age 18 and 7.4% of those age 65 or over.
One of the village's most well-known manufacturers was Tecumseh Products.
Founded by the Herrick family amid the early part of the 20th century, Tecumseh Products initially began company manufacturing refrigeration compressors, dominant Tecumseh to be known as the "Refrigeration Capital of the World." The business moved out of Tecumseh in 2008, moving the remaining manufacturing to a plant in Tupelo, Mississippi, and its command posts to Pittsfield Township, Michigan, just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In 2010, the town/city began hosting the Tecumseh Ice Sculpting Festival in the downtown region on the penultimate weekend in January. Another festival is Appleumpkin (the second weekend in October) which attracts tourists from around the county.
Skydive Tecumseh Tecumseh Middle School The town/city of Tecumseh is home to Tecumseh Public Schools which includes one traditional high school, Tecumseh High School, (grades 9 12), one alternative high school, Tecumseh Alternative High School, one middle school, Tecumseh Middle School, (grades 5 8), and four elementary schools, (grades K 4). Beaman practiced law in Tecumseh in the 1800s. Historian and literary critic Ronald Crane was born in Tecumseh.
Andrew Kehoe was born and raised in Tecumseh.
American serial killer Henry Lee Lucas murdered his mother in Tecumseh on January 11, 1960. Lucas confessed to killing over 600 citizens , but authorities believe that he could not have killed more than 213.
Actress Julie Parrish, born October 21, 1940 in Middlesboro, Kentucky, spent her early years in Lake City, Tennessee, but moved to Tecumseh at age 11. There she graduated from Tecumseh High School (Michigan).
Among the noteworthy affairs which have occurred in Tecumseh is the world-famous Dynamic Kernels tithing project.
In 2008, Tecumseh Friends Church (now called Riverbend Friends Church) began the Dynamic Kernels Project again. A horse, Don Juan, that belonged to General George Armstrong Custer is buried in Tecumseh.
The horse had been sent to a friend living in Tecumseh after the General's death.
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Early history of Lenawee County and of the town/city of Adrian from the first settlement of the county.
Memoirs of Lenawee County, Michigan: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Lenawee County.
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