Quarries where gray limestone and celestine associated with calcite, fluorite, gypsum, epsomite, and rarely, sulfur were first worked by the French circa 1749.

In the days before the coalition, American troops under the Governor of Michigan Territory, Brigadier General William Hull, marched to Fort Detroit to set up a base to attack on Upper Canada.

As American troops advanced on the British troops, men were noticed creeping through the nearby woods, who turned out to be Potawatomi warriors allied to the British, came to join the battle as flanking skirmishers, but immediately retreated.

Miller's troops camped at the nearby woods for two days, not returning for their knapsacks which they had discarded before the attack to fight more effectively, and ignoring orders from General Hull to resume en route to the Rapids, before being ordered to return to Detroit.

These townships were formed under authority initially granted by the Court of General Sessions for the Northwest Territory on November 6, 1790.