Monguagon Township, Michigan

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Mongaugon Township, is a former township of Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was first settled in 1812. On January 15, 1818, a proclamation by Lewis Cass, Governor of Michigan Territory, established Mongaugon, along with townships of Hamtramck, Huron, St. Clair, and Springwells as townships of Wayne County.

On April 12, 1827, Cass signed an act that abolished the office of township commissioner, and also established in Wayne County the townships of Brownstown, Bucklin, Detroit, Ecorse, Hamtramck, Huron, Mongaugon, Plymouth and Springwells.

Township government in Mongaugon was organized on May 25, 1827, with the election of Colonel Abram Caleb Truax, supervisor along persons to several other offices. Truax is credited as the founder of Trenton for laying out the village of Truaxton, which became Trenton.

Mongaugon was bounded on the north by Ecorse Township (what is now the southern boundary of the cities of Southgate and Wyandotte. On the west and south, it was bounded by Brownstown Township.

The name Mongaugon is that of a Pottawatomi chief who lived along the Detroit River circa 1755.

The area is now comprised of Grosse Ile Township and the cities of Trenton and Riverview.