History

Trumbull Township was a dense, impenetrable forest used as a hunting ground for the Erie Indians for centures. After the war of 1650 between the Erie Indians and the war-like Iroquois, this township became the hunting grounds of the Iroquois.

Trumbull Township remained a pristine wilderness untouched by any white men until the treaty of Greenville was signed in 1795. At this point, on the brink of a new era in our history here in Trumbull Township only a few lingering Indians remained here. Some of these Indians were Chippewas who used Trumbull Township as their winter hunting grounds.

Traveling south from the remote outpost of Mechanicsville where Girdled Road crossed the Grand River, Daniel Woodruff became Trumbull Township's first permanent settler as he took up residence on the bluffs of Crooked Creek on State Road, today known as Higley Road.

The Crooked Creek Bluffs was where the first mills and outpost was developed in Trumbull Township. New pioneers continued to follow the State Road south, carefully navigating their wagons down the steep palisade, across Trumbull Creek and back up the other side where the road was carved out of the south bank running east to the top where their new lives were imminent.

Just 1000 feet east of this point from the top of the south bank, East Trumbull was formed a couple of years later after the village at the Crooked Creek Bluffs. East Trumbull was a growing outpost and became bigger than the Crooked Creek Bluffs as it became the focus village in Trumbull Township. Isaac Pheps, about 20 years, later cut his way from East Trumbull to Trumbull Center in the mid 1830's. In 1841 Orson Grant and Lauren Foot began clearing a path to the awe inspiring ridge, west on Trumbull Creek were Lauren Foot would build his house that still remains in 2002 in the beautiful town that still bear's his name today - Footville.