Editing Lenawee County, Michigan (section)

==History==
{{See also|National Register of Historic Places listings in Lenawee County, Michigan}}
The county owes its formation to the 1807 [[Treaty of Detroit]], by which the [[Ottawa (tribe)|Ottawa]], [[Ojibwe]] (called Chippewa by the Americans); [[Wyandot people|Wyandot]] and [[Potawatomi]] nations ceded their claims to the United States of their traditional territories in today's southeast Michigan.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clark |first=Daniel J. |title=Disruption in Detroit |date=2018 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252042010 |pages=35–53 |chapter=The Era of 'The Treaty of Detroit,' 1949–1950 |doi=10.5622/illinois/9780252042010.003.0003 |s2cid=182599839}}</ref> However, many leaders of these tribes believed that the treaty was coercive and opposed it. They began to collaborate and organize a confederacy of resistance, led by Chief Tecumseh ([[Shawnee people|Shawnee]]). They wanted through warfare and alliance with Great Britain to force the US from their territory. This was the period of the US [[War of 1812]] with Great Britain. During this time, the US fought the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]], the [[Battle of Lake Erie]], and the [[Battle of the Thames|Battle of Thames]] in this area, against both British and indigenous forces.<ref name="chronology">{{Cite web |title=Chronology of Adrian |url=https://www.adrianarchitecture.org/chronology |access-date=April 11, 2022 |website=Adrian Architecture |language=en-US}}</ref>

The United States won the [[Battle of the Thames]] in 1813, defeating the British and their allies. [[Tecumseh]] died in the battle and his confederacy dissolved. (He became the namesake for the [[Tecumseh, Michigan|city]] of the same name in Lenawee County.) As a result of this defeat, the confederacy leaders agreed to a peace treaty, the [[Treaty of Ghent]], which ended the war with the indigenous peoples. It affirmed US control of the land demarcated in the Treaty of Detroit, comprising much of the future state of [[Michigan]], including what became organized as Lenawee County in the United States.<ref name="chronology" />

The US continued efforts to force the tribes from these western territories. In 1830, [[Andrew Jackson|President Andrew Jackson]] signed the [[Indian Removal Act]] to authorize the government to relocate Indigenous peoples from territories east of the Mississippi River and move them west, to what became known as Indian Territory (and later Oklahoma). While Indian Removal was directed specifically at Southeast Indian tribes, it was also applied to those further north in the Midwest.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boursaw |first=Jane Louise |date=January 28, 2021 |title=Eric Hemenway Talks Indian Removal Act, Treaties & Odawa Leadership |url=https://www.oldmission.net/2021/01/eric-hemenway-indian-removal-act-odawa-treaty/ |access-date=April 11, 2022 |website=Old Mission Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=MSU American Indian and Indigenous Studies |title=Land Acknowledgement |url=https://nai.msu.edu/projects/reciprocal-research-guidebook/land-acknowledgement |access-date=April 11, 2022 |website=Reciprocal Research Guide |publisher=Michigan State University |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[File:Irish Hills Towers.JPG|thumb|[[Irish Hills Towers|Towers]] of the [[Irish Hills]] near [[Hayes State Park]]]]

Lenawee County was organized in 1826, after being authorized and described by the Michigan legislature in 1822. It was taken from [[Monroe County, Michigan]].<ref name="clarke">{{Cite web |title=Bibliography on Lenawee County |url=https://www.cmich.edu/library/clarke/AccessMaterials/Bibliographies/MichiganLocalHistory/Pages/lenawee.aspx |access-date=January 20, 2013 |publisher=[[Clarke Historical Library]], [[Central Michigan University]]}}</ref>