Editing Taylor, Michigan (section)

===Township===
Many residents in the western portion of the township found that they lived too far away to participate in the civic affairs and functions of the township. Because of this, the residents petitioned to form a separate community. The petition was granted in 1847 and the new community was named Taylor Township.<ref name=early-history /> The township was named after Major General [[Zachary Taylor]],<ref name="name">{{cite book |last=Romig |first=Walter|date=1986|title=Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities |via=[[HathiTrust]] |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000596419 |language=English |location= |publisher=Wayne State University Press|isbn=9780814318386}}</ref> a hero of the [[Mexican–American War]] who would go on to serve as the twelfth [[president of the United States]].

A small train station was built in 1876 after the [[Wabash Railroad]] built a railroad line through Taylor Township. George E Hand sold the right-of-way through his land and the station was named after him. The area to some locals became known as "Hand Corners". The original station was destroyed in a fire in 1965 however a near replica was built at Heritage Park.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cityoftaylor.com/Facilities/Facility/Details/Train-Station-13 |publisher=City of Taylor |access-date=March 7, 2021 |title=Train Station}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=94862 |publisher=THE HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE |access-date=March 7, 2021 |title=Hand Train Station Historical Marker}}</ref>

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In 1882, [[Germans|German]] settlers in Taylor built the West Mound United Methodist Church on Eureka Road. The church sat located on Eureka Road until 1994 when it was sold to the city and relocated to Heritage Park. The church had a major fire in 2020 while construction work was being done.<ref>{{cite news |url =https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=94611 |publisher=THE HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE |access-date=March 7, 2021 |title=West Mound Church Historical Marker}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.downriversundaytimes.com/2020/11/05/fire-causes-extensive-damage-to-historical-taylor-church/ |work=Times-Herald |access-date=March 7, 2021 |title=Fire causes extensive damage to historical Taylor church}}</ref>

In 1954, the first American [[Bektashi Order|Bektashi]] [[Sufism|Sufi]] lodge with significant support from the [[Albanian Americans|Albanian-American]] community of the Detroit area.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bayraktarı |first=Cemal |date=March 1985 |title=The First American Bektaşi Tekke |journal=Turkish Studies Association Bulletin |volume=9 |pages=21–24}}</ref>{{clarify|date=March 2021}}<!--What happened? This sentence fragment has no verb in it.-->