Canton Forest

Canton Forest is a condominium community in northern Canton, south of Warren Road and reached off Saratoga Circle, in the 48187 ZIP code. It went up around 1992; most units have a basement and a one- or two-car attached garage.

It sits in Canton Township, Wayne County — a township that reached 98,659 residents by 2020, making it Michigan's second most-populated. It became a Michigan township on 7 March 1834, named after a city in China like the neighboring Nankin and Peking townships, and it is the only one of the three still carrying that name; New England settlers arrived after the Erie Canal opened in 1825 and farmed the flat ground for well over a century.

Canton was the Sweet Corn Capital of Michigan from 1925 to 1970 and counted about 5,300 residents as late as 1961. I-275, completed in 1977, put a township of farms within an hour of most of metropolitan Detroit, and the population approached 50,000 by the 1980 census. Nearly every subdivision here belongs to some phase of that forty-year build-out — ask me which phase this one falls in.

• —Early-1990s condominium units south of Warren Road, off Saratoga Circle
• —Most units have a basement and a one- or two-car attached garage
• —Canton became a township on 7 March 1834 and farmed flat ground for over a century
• —The Sweet Corn Capital of Michigan from 1925 to 1970, with about 5,300 residents in 1961
• —I-275 was completed in 1977 and the population reached 98,659 by 2020
• —Three school districts serve one township — Plymouth-Canton, Van Buren and Wayne-Westland
• —Heritage Park runs to 105 acres, and the township owns two golf courses