On May 21, 1824, settlers from Jefferson County, New York, made the first Anglo-American settlement in Lenawee County here. Musgrove Evans found the land and persuaded General Joseph W. Brown to come, and the two of them, with Austin Wing, platted a village named for the Shawnee leader Tecumseh. It held the county seat until 1838, when the courts moved to Adrian. That same year it annexed neighboring Brownville. Brown also ran a stage line from Detroit to Chicago through town.

For much of the 20th century the town was known for one company. Tecumseh Products, led by the Herrick family, made refrigeration compressors on East Patterson Street, and the town took the nickname Refrigeration Capital of the World.

Chicago Boulevard, which is also M-50, is the downtown main street, with historic storefronts holding shops, restaurants and small businesses. Manufacturing continues on the same road, where Kirchhoff Automotive builds structural parts at its plant on East Chicago. Tecumseh Township surrounds the city on three sides, but the two are independent.

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Tecumseh at a glance

8,646

Residents

3,851

Households

$62,835

Median household income

4,377

Working residents

Who works here

2,993 jobs based here, led by:

Manufacturing1,082
Retail425
Hospitality397

Commercial snapshot

Properties we track in our own database

348

Commercial parcels

Industrial parcels

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 and LEHD job data 2021; Thomas Duke parcel database.

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