Welcome to Macomb County

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    Macomb County, named for Alexander Macomb Jr, a War of 1812 veteran and army general, was organized on January 15, 1818 as the third county in the Michigan Territory. The first Europeans were the French traders who arrived in the 1600's. A Moravian colony was created in the late 1700's. With the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, a flood of emigrants, many of them farmers, arrived mostly from New York and New England. By the mid-1900's Macomb County became the home of a large number of blue-collar workers, many working in the auto industry.