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Wayne County
This is a very unique, very old, historic county.
Wayne County was founded in 1796 and organized in 1815, it is Michigan's only original charter county, named for General Anthony Wayne. It originally encompassed the entire area of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, most of the Upper Peninsula, as well as smaller sections that are now part of northern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Wayne County is most populous county in Michigan, as well as the 11th largest county in the Nation by population.
The county seat is Detroit.
Populated Places
Cities
Allen Park * Belleville * Dearborn * Dearborn Heights * Detroit * Ecorse * Flat Rock (partially in Monroe Co.) * Garden City *
Gibraltar * Grosse Pointe * Grosse Pointe Farms * Grosse Pointe Park * Grosse Pointe Shores (partially in Macomb Co) *
Grosse Pointe Woods * Hamtramck * Harper Woods * Highland Park * Inkster * Lincoln Park * Livonia * Melvindale *
Northville (partially in Oakland Co) * Plymouth * River Rouge * Riverview * Rockwood * Romulus * Southgate * Taylor * Trenton *
Wayne * Westland * Woodhaven * Wyandotte
Unincorporated Communities
Beech * Belleville North * Cherry Hill * Cherry Island * Conners Creek (former) * Denton * Duboisville (former) *
East Rockwoood * Edgewater Heights * French Landing * Grand View Acres * Maple Beach * Martinsville *
Milleville Beach * New Boston * Rawsonville (partially in Washtenaw Co) * Roulo * Sheldon * Waltz * West Sumpter * Willow
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Updates:
Aug 2024: Chapter LXIII - The Lutheran Churches
Chapter LVIII: The Methodist Episcopal Churches
Apr 2024: HISTORY TOPICS: Chapters 11 (Cemeteries' Histories) and 67 (County Poverty, Poorhouse, Asylum)
Biographies for COOLEY, DESNOYERS
Sep 2023: Catholic Church History
Obituaries for VIGER, DAVIS, SHIELDS, BOARDMAN, MCMANN, FINSLEY, MADDOCK, BASHAW, BURCH, O'DONNELL, ROBERTS, FORCHIER, WITHERELL, CHASE, BRADY, RAY, FERGUSON
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