page_title: River Raisin
section_title: Communities
hierarchical_section_title: River Raisin / Communities
caption_attribution_description: English: Red Millpond, River Raisin, North Evans Street, Tecumseh, Michigan
context_page_description: The River Raisin is a river in southeastern Michigan, United States, that flows through glacial sediments into Lake Erie. The area today is an agricultural and industrial center of Michigan. The river flows for almost 139 miles, draining an area of 1,072 square miles in the Michigan counties of Lenawee, Washtenaw, Jackson, Hillsdale, and Monroe County, where its mouth at Lake Erie is located. French settlers named it as La Rivière aux Raisins because of the wild grapes growing along its banks, the French word for grape being raisin. The French term for "raisin" is raisin sec.
context_section_description: Towns along the river include:
  Tecumseh, Michigan
  Adrian, Michigan
  Blissfield, Michigan
  Clinton, Michigan
  Dundee, Michigan
  Petersburg, Michigan
  Manchester, Michigan
  Monroe, Michigan
  Deerfield, Michigan
caption: Red Millpond, Tecumseh
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