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Sodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. ==History== Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835. The first permanent settler, however, was David Rector who, in 1837, took possession of 40 acres of land. 〔(Sodus Township ), Berrien County Community Development Department, August 2008.〕 In 1853, Joab Enos built a flour mill, also on Pipestone Creek.〔Cowles, Edward B. (1871). ''Berrien County Directory and History'', p. 213. Buchanan, Michigan: Record Steam Printing House.〕 The township was organized on October 11, 1859.〔 Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The name of the township came from David S. Rector. He and his brother, William H., came to the area in 1836 by way of keel boat from Sodus, New York, so the township was named such in 1859 after the town from which they departed. 〔a twentieth century history of berrien county michigan,〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sodus Township, Michigan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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