|
Re: Your Hometown
Canton, MI
-Named after the city of Canton in China*
-Home of the Plymouth - Canton Educational Park
-Home of Michigan's only Ikea.
*"Canton, like Nankin and Peking townships were named after cities in China due in part to the enhanced trade relations the United States had with China at that time. Additionally, Washington D.C. had decreed that all new townships had to use names not previously used by another post office. Today Canton is the only township of the three that uses its original name."
- Canton Historical Society Website
|