The first recorded settle was Pierre Michael Campau in 1795. The Township of Ecorse was established on April 12, 1827. The Village of Ecorse was incorporated in 1903 and then changed to a city in 1941. Some early maps and records about Ecorse have the spelling as Ecorce.
Ecorse has been noted to be home of the Wyandotte Indians and the city was located at the mouth of the stream that early settlers called the Riviere Aux Ecorses, becasue of the amoun of suitable bark along the shorelines that were used for canoe building. Ecorse is French for bark.
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