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==History== The boundaries of Lenawee County were laid out by a proclamation of the [[Michigan Territory|Territorial Governor]], [[Lewis Cass]], on September 10, 1822.<ref name="Our City">{{cite web|url= http://www.mytecumseh.org/Our-City/our-city.html|title= Our City|publisher= City of Tecumesh|access-date= February 23, 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140228063928/http://www.mytecumseh.org/Our-City/our-city.html|archive-date= February 28, 2014|url-status= dead}}</ref> Lenawee remained attached to [[Monroe County, Michigan|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 Anglo-American settlement in the county was made two years earlier, on May 21, 1824, in Tecumseh. The settlers, consisting of fifteen men, eleven women, and six children, all came from [[Jefferson County, New York]] along [[Lake Erie]]. In 1823, Musgrove Evans had located the land and persuaded General [[Joseph W. Brown]] and the others to move to the site. Brown and Evans, along with [[Austin Eli Wing]], purchased land there and platted the village of Tecumseh in 1824. These founders appealed to Governor Cass to locate the county seat of Lenawee at Tecumseh. This was accomplished by an act of the Territorial Legislature on June 30, 1824, although county government was not organized for another year and a half. The city was named after [[Shawnee]] chief [[Tecumseh]], whose people had historically controlled that territory.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22164|title= Tecumseh|publisher= ePodunk|access-date= February 24, 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140228083848/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22164|archive-date= February 28, 2014|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref name="Elliott 2008 75">{{cite book|last=Elliott|first=Michael A.|title=Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer|date=2008|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=75|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpjYkhUbbKsC&q=Don+Juan+Tecumseh%2C&pg=PA73|isbn=9780226201481}}</ref> Tecumseh remained the county seat until 1838, when it was transferred to [[Adrian, Michigan|Adrian]]. The [[Tecumseh Township, Michigan|Township of Tecumseh]] was organized on April 12, 1837, initially encompassing the entire northern third of the county.<ref name="Our City"/> [[Image:Tecumseh panorama.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Panoramic map of Tecumseh, 1868]] Just to the north of Tecumseh, the village of Brownville was established in 1823 by Austin Wing. It was annexed by Tecumseh in 1838.<ref>{{cite book |first= Walter |last= Romig |title= Michigan Place Names |page= 83}}</ref>
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