Site of the Battle of Brownstown, which produced Michigan's first casualties of the War of 1812 source
Community character
Downriver township named for Brown's Town, the Wyandot village of adopted leader Adam Brown; today a residential community anchored by Lake Erie shoreline parkland source
Battle of Brownstown memorial
Marker and cannons in Lake Erie Metropark commemorating Tecumseh's August 5, 1812 ambush of Major Thomas Van Horne's column; the state marker was erected in 1958 source
Marshlands Museum
Nature and waterfowl-heritage museum inside Lake Erie Metropark source
Pointe Mouillee State Game Area
State wildlife area partly in the township, one of its two major protected natural areas source
Lake Erie Metropark
1,607-acre Huron-Clinton metropark with three miles of Great Lakes shoreline, regulation golf, the Great Wave pool, and the annual Hawkfest raptor-migration festival source
Thorn Park Community Center complex
Township recreation campus on Telegraph Road with a splash park, tennis and pickleball courts, dog parks, ball fields, and an event center; one of nine township parks source
