Monguagon Township, Michigan | |
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Former civil township | |
 An 1893 map showing the boundaries of Monguagon Township | |
  Monguagon Township Former location within the state of Michigan  Monguagon Township Former location within the United States | |
| Coordinates: 42°09′00″N 83°11′00″W / 42.15000°N 83.18333°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Michigan |
| County | Wayne |
| Settled | 1812 |
| Organized | 1818 |
| Dissolved | 1959 |
| Today part of | Grosse Ile Township, Riverview, Trenton |
Mongaugon Township, is a former township of Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Quarries where gray limestone and celestine associated with calcite, fluorite, gypsum, epsomite, and rarely, sulfur were first worked by the French circa 1749.[1] United States forces aided by Muskrat French defeated United Kingdom forces aided by Native Americans forces at the Battle of Monguagon during the War of 1812.
Mongaugon Township was first settled in 1812 by many former soldiers of the afformentioned War who founded villages that grew to become the cities of Trenton and Riverview, and the civil township of Grosse Ile.[2]