: 1 7 1 ו 1 A 61573 3 !. HC 107 M52 W36 443 2 A about. * WAYNE COUNTY IRL ITA T. I bur of goo't geft direct 11-19-48 HC 107 M52 W36 A43 v.2 COMMUNITY DATA SHEETS ALLEN PARK BELLEVILLE DEARBORN DEARBORN HEIGHTS DETROIT ECORSE FLAT ROCK GARDEN CITY GIBRALTAR GROSSE POINTES HAMTRAMCK HARPER WOODS HIGHLAND PARK INKSTER LINCOLN PARK LIVONIA MELVINDALE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH RIVER ROUGE RIVERVIEW ROCKWOOD SOUTHGATE TAYLOR TRENTON WAYNE WESTLAND WOODHAVEN WYANDOTTE BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP CANTON TOWNSHIP GROSSE ILE TOWNSHIP HURON TOWNSHIP NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP REDFORD TOWNSHIP ROMULUS TOWNSHIP SUMPTER TOWNSHIP VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP ALLEN PARK is an attractive suburban community on the west- ern border of Lincoln Park, close to the city limits of Detroit, and close to the harbors of the Detroit River and the St. Law rence Seaway. The community gets its name from one of its early. settlers Lewis Allen, a lawyer, landowner, and businessman. engaged in the lumbering business. His saw mill was located on the Rouge River. The trail which he cut from his home to the mil. was known as Allen's Road. Today Allen Road is a main artery through the city. - An earlier period of American history is reflected in Allen Park's past the founding of Detroit in the 1700's, when the first French colonists anchored ship along the western shores of the Detroit River and decided that the land was good and the outlook promising. Their encounters with the Indians who inhabited the great forests, streams, and swamps, and the subsequent struggles with the British are all a part of the rich history which belongs. to the townships, cities, and villages which are in close proximity. -- Some of the French-Canadian families who settled on "strip farms "fronting the Detroit River in the late 18th century were the first settlers in the Allen Park area. When the original nine town- ships were formed in Wayne County in 1827, Allen Park was part of Ecorse Township. It, then, had a population of 644 people. The village began to grow after World War II as the Detroit urban area spread toward the suburbs, and in the spring of 1957 Allen Park elected to incorporate as a city. The estimated number of people in Allen Park today is 43,500. Allen Park is comprised mainly of contemporary middle income dwellings. Approximately 400 business establishments serve the community. Within the last 10 years, considerable industrial de- velopment in a planned industrial corridor has taken place; a number of nationally and internationally recognized companies have established plants and warehousing facilities. Most of Allen Park's labor force is employed in neighboring communities. Six major highways lie within the city, making it convenient to reach any part of the Metropolitan Region quickly. Detroit Metropolitan Airport is approximately 10 minutes away. Two railroads provide service to the city. about.. ALLEN PARK CITY HALL 6736 Allen Road Allen Park, Michigan 48101 Telephone 928-1400 ALLEN PARK : ! NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH TH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN SELLEVILLE 2 SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN EN ROCKWOOD TRENTON MELVINDALE LINCOLN PARK RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA B GROSSE ILE RIVER ROUGE ww ECORSE nj DETROIT HAMTRAMCK HARPER WOODS Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE I WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK p A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS LAND SIZE HOUSING I 1 1 I M "ROBINSO PELHAM I PHILOMENE "PELHAM I 1001] 111 ECORSE ROBINSON, BONDIE BALFOURE KOLB BUCKINGHAM) *** * DALE STATE CHAMPAIGN [BUCKINGHAM´ SEAVITT LUCT [SE AVITY" HERRICA CRE YDEVONSHIRE MARLBO /COLO MORTHWAY" SOBALFOUR- CORTLAND CITI PINECREST. 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M-17 OR MARKESE W MICHIGAN "PHILOMENE -NÖL PRISHJE TOST 17! 1000 - HO <<< (DASHER wh -NORFOLK- HART THANOVER LENDIR + FLAN wat verse the white on agter MEYERS CLEOPHUS DETROIT ENTERPRISE DR DEARBORN (UNIVER سیک COLLECE PARIS IDEMEAN RED MORRIS ARLINGTON -- "WARWICK- H138Y2113 CICOITE LAUR TO CONNG 3 5 O UHANFORS INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE DR "HARLOW السن الثالشان MAP COURTESY OF POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate SCHOOLS under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) 7.16 37,052 43,500 15.2% 21.5% 6.2% 4.6% 49.1% 3.4% 23.4% 7.1% 69.5% $9,420 1960 occupied dwelling units. 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE TRANSPORTATION -- - 2 Railroads 1. Detroit Toledo & Ironton, 2. Norfolk & Western M-17 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (7 miles west) COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (8.16 miles) -- Allen, Goddard, Oakwood, PUBLIC SAFETY 49 Police Officers, 28 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 6 Veterans Administration Hospital residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS -- 9,419 10,700 $ 127,321,092.00 48.81 3,310,000.00 acres 1,273.6 80.9 71.3 per cent 28.2 1.7 1.6 1,868.7 41.4 1,223.5 27.1 4,518.0 100.0 4 School Districts - 1. Allen Park, 2. Heintzen, 3. Heintzen Annex, 4. Allen Park and Melvindale Elementary, Secondary and High Schools Baptist, Catholic and Lutheran Schools 3 Freeways 1. 1-75, 2. 1-94, 3. M-39 State Highway Bus service Great Lakes Transit Co. -- Old Goddard, Outer Drive, Pelham, Roosevelt and Van Born DETROIT EDISON COMPANY BELLEVILLE is situated in western Wayne County in the Town- ship of Van Buren. It lies in gently rolling terrain along the southern shoreline of Belleville Lake, a lake developed in more modern times from the waters of the Huron River. Belleville was incorporated as a city in 1946. Its history traces back to 1826 when Archibald Fleming and Samuel McNath and his two sons settled here. The town was laid out in 1834. The building of the Wabash Railroad (now Norfolk and Western) in 1881 and the town's railroad station, known then as French Landing, precipitated an active commerce for the rich agricultural district of Wayne County. Today, in a world of commerce and industry, the city has grown in stature. Although a sizeable portion of the land in the surround- ing area is devoted to agricultural use, the trend for development of industry is evidenced by a number of nationally known firms which have been drawn to the vicinity because of the proximity to major freeways and commercial airports. A combination of modern manufacturing firms, local commercial centers, and new residential areas have given rise to an appealing suburban community. The civic leadership is a proud and active. one, intent on making its town a "progressive and pleasant place. to work and live." about.. پچی BELLEVILLE CITY HALL 6 Main Street Belleville, Michigan 48111 Telephone 699-2401 .BELLEVILLE ¦ NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE ย SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN EN ROCKWOOD TRENTON MELVINDALE LINCOLN PARK RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK GIBRALTA ww RIVER ROUGE WYANDOTTE ECORSE GROSSE ILE 0 DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE | WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS LAND SIZE HOUSING F 1 1 1 600 HIGH "CHURCH' BRAIN EDISON г5 TH ELIBERTY- MAIN CHARLES 2009 -CHURCH- MC COLUMBIA IST WABASH-- HENRY- DAVIS SOUTH· ANGOLA WABASH TEN PrROLA ENADELE TOPFENCER BEDELL CLARENCE' 500 200 CUNNINGHA NOTTINGHAM -HARL ROBBE TBIGGS WEXFORD GREYLOCK [BIGGS": DILLINGHAM (DICKERSON HUNTINGTON // MAP COURTESY OF S POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over SCHOOLS managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled INCOME median family income (1966-67 estimate) PUBLIC SAFETY 0.96 1,921 2,300 11.5% 14.6% 7.3% 11.0% 47.1% 8.5% 28.9% 12.3% 58.8% $8,970 1960 occupied dwelling units. 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS Fully Equipped Police and Fire Departments; Fire Insurance Class 7⚫ Belleville Community Hospital acres 130.2 20.4 9.0 174.9 275.1 609.6 Van Buren School District -- 7 Elementary Schools, 1 Junior High School and 1 Senior High School Catholic School 606 670 $7,317, 128.00 42.22 87,000.00 per cent 21.3 3.3 1.6 28.7 45.1 100.0 TRANSPORTATION Norfolk & Western Railroad Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (5.5 miles east)⚫ Bus service -- Short Way Bus Line COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (2.72 miles) -- Belleville, Denton, Huron River Drive, Main, Savage and Sumpter DETROIT EDISON COMPANY FLAT ROCK, located in southeast Wayne County along the east bank of the Huron River, is part of the rich history of southern Michigan. The French, English, Indians, and Americans fought for a century and a half before the land became the territory of the United States. For many years afterward, until the U.S. Government relocated the Indians to lands west of the Missis sippi, the people of the village lived peacefully side by side with the inhabitants of an Indian reservation. These Indians were the last of the original owners of the land. Flat Rock was carved out of Brownstown Township, one of the original nine townships of Wayne County created in 1827. It has borne many names. In 1823, Flat Rock was known as the Village of Vreelandt after the first white settler, Michael Vreelandt, a Dutchman from New York State who purchased land and built a home here. The early settlement of Vreelandt served as a market and shipping point for a rich agricultural district in the Huron valley. Later it was called "Smooth Rock" after the bed of the Huron River which at this point cuts through a huge seamless formation of rock, a part of the geological sandstone stratum that underlies the region. The Gibraltar and Flat Rock Company, which proposed to build. a canal from Gibraltar to Lake Michigan, was a contributing factor in the economy of Flat Rock. Although the project was never con- summated (the company failed 11 years after it started due to the depression of 1847) the undertaking stimulated other business enterprises. The early business directory of the town lists a wagon maker, a harness maker, and a blacksmith, among several others. Flat Rock Village became a city on December 20, 1965, partly in anticipation of its potential industrial development in the in- dustrial downriver area of the Detroit metropolitan region. It lies two and a half miles inland from the Detroit River. The comple- tion of 1-75 Freeway along the eastern edge of the city, plus the planned extension of the Trenton Channel (known also as the All-American Channel) in the Detroit River, which experts state will generate new interstate and international shipping, are ex- pected to bring the community into new focus for industrial de- velopment of the total area. about.. A FLAT ROCK CITY HALL 26643 W. Huron River Drive Flat Rock, Michigan 48134 Telephone 782-2455 FLAT ROCK NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE ว SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT SOUTHGATE WOODHAVEN ROCK ALLEN PARK BROWNSTOWN ROCKWOOD TRENTON LINCOLN PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK 7:1 WYANDOTTE GIBRALTAR GROSSE ILE RIVER ROUGE ECORSE NJ 1 DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE || WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS 1000 I I 1 1 I I I I 27400 Ja Loc "HURON-RIVER - DR FORD JAMES RIVE D.T. & 1. R.R. ATWATER YPSILANTI) ARSENAL LEONARD THEIER CT 26400 THOMAST RUTH: TERIE -DETROIT- "HOLT [MOSES] MATILDA 26000 -COOK SENECA CHURCH BROWN DIVISION LIN WAGER ENNA WESLEY 25800 WESLEY SKEEKS 28000 LAW 28000 FLAT ROCK SENECAT 28200 VAN RIPER EVERGREEN HILL EVERGREEN 25500 STWALNUT TELEGRAPH MAGNOLIA FIELD SILVER DR HURON RIVER DR. MAGNOLIA TASPEN [MEADOW SILVER CT. 리 ​RED CEDART · TAMARACK- CIRCLE CT CARTER TAMARACK CT. 29500 WEST CHANNEL : HILTON ALDERS PETERS CAREY TORONTO LEONARD CHANNE SPALMETTO LAUREL THOMAS LARCHES JOAN 31000 NAN BAR AIRPORT STOCKHAM STEWART AILANTHUS 24000 CAHILL CAHILL DT. & I ROCHE 30000 VREELAND GIBRALTAR WOODRUFF R. 23000 33 OLMSTEAD < KIL VIKSTA HALL 29000 MAP COURTESY OF DETROIT EDISON COMPANY ALL MORAY ** LAND SIZE POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over SCHOOLS managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) PUBLIC SAFETY 6.67 4,696 5,500 19.3% 20.5% 5.6% 5.9% 44.0% 4.7% 22.0% 12.4% 65.6% $8,500 HOUSING 10 Police Officers, 22 Volunteer Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 7 1960 occupied dwelling units. 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, and sewer (selected areas). Electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS $ 18,000,021.00 45.91 760,000.00 acres 1,452 85 384 448 1,188 1,200 1,900 4,269 per cent 34.0 2.0 9.0 10.5 44.5 100.0 3 School Districts 1. Flat Rock, 2. Maple Grove, 3. Gibraltar - 8 Elementary Schools, 1 Junior High School and 2 Senior High -- Schools Catholic Elementary School TRANSPORTATION -- Detroit - Toledo & Ironton Railroad 1-75 Freeway Federal Highways US 24, US 25 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (6.5 miles northwest) COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (6.38 miles) -- Erie, Gibraltar, Huron River Drive, Inkster and Will Carleton Bakery ECORSE, a highly industrialized riverfront city, is situated approximately eight miles south of Detroit. It is the oldest of the downriver communities. The original "ribbon" farms granted by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac to the French pioneers extended from above Lake St. Clair to Ecorse River. The village, which later became Ecorse, was first called "Grand Port." It was established on a Wyandot Indian camping site and burial ground at the close of the War of 1812. The eventual name, Ecorse, came from its location at the mouth of a little stream known to the French as "Riviere Aux Ecorses" (Bark River) because of the amount of birch bark along the banks where Indians made their canoes and wigwams. Ecorse has been a city since September 15, 1942. Before incorp- oration it was a part of the larger Ecorse Township, one of the nine townships comprising the County of Wayne, which was estab- lished by the Northwest Ordinance of 1827. The growth of Ecorse is noted particularly after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the building of steamships on the Great Lakes, when it began to emerge as a substantial shipping and trading center. By the end of the Civil War, the riverfront communities had developed considerably with saw mills, steel mills and shipping plants. Southern Wayne County geologically is stratified heavily with salt, dolomite, siliceous sand, sandstone, and limestone which have brought several manufacturing companies into the area. Combined with excellent water shipping facilities and several railroad lines, as well as an early electric line connecting it with Detroit, Ecorse became a manufacturing community of na- tional note. Largest of the Ecorse industries today is the Great Lakes Steel Company, a division of the National Steel Corpora- tion, which employs 10,500 persons in its plants. Construction of a second steel-making plant by 1970 was recently announced. Ecorse today comprises an area with approximately 99% of the land fully built-up. A recently completed land use and master plan study, coupled with an urban renewal program, provides the basis for the restructure of Ecorse with balanced land use de- signs which are consistent with today's concepts of sound urban planning. about.. ECORSE CITY HALL 4373 High Street Ecorse, Michigan 48229 Telephone 386-3000 301 . ECORSE 1 ! NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN EVILLE BELLEVI ย SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT SOUTHGATE WOODHAVEN ROCK BROWNSTOWN ALLEN PARK ROCKWOOD TRENTON RIVER ROUGE WI LINCOLN ECORSE PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA GROSSE ILE ་ DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE J WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS LAND SIZE HOUSING I I T I OTTE 500 1940 -16 TH 149 CICOTTE 17TH [CT] [LABADIE UN MICHIGAN STEEL 4799 300 4207 -18 TH 14 TH T 15 TH CORP COH161. [HYACINTH (FRANCIS 11 ILL 0021101773] 4676 170 MILL 10 THỊ CICOTTE 500 THIS J FILTH- 12 TH- HI TAGNES =14THE ATILLA 6 TH SOUTHFIELD Mi WHITE 周口 ​03 SUBURBAN $73009 MILL RENO 3 RD- 9 TH- BONDIE C [BEACH 7TH WEBSTER 29 13 THE D&T SL R.R. 39.40 W-HOTH= -H18J 4460 BOURASSAY JU FLABADIE JUUL JOSEPHINE BROADWAY WOODWARD CMONROE BENSON 口 ​LE BLANC M.C.R.R. PITT - ECOR SE BOAT CLUB 360 AUBURN [RUTH- ALEXANDER BELL CHARLOTTET ALEXIS UNION MARIE RIDGE -XNOX ELTON SUNNYSIDE GO BONZANO APPLE GROVE GOODELL VIRGIN MUD ISL JEFFERSON ROCKWOOD GLENWOOD 3720 LORENCE TALEXIS CHERRY-GROVE 82173 JOSEPH IRONTON WESTFIELD- NYCRR: CHEMICAL MURRAY BODY GRASSELL CO NICHOLSON TERMINAE STEEL COR پر GREAT LAKES MAP COURTESY OF POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over SCHOOLS managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) PUBLIC SAFETY 2.74 TRANSPORTATION 17,328 18,400 15.2% 16.3% 6.1% 9.5% 46.0% 6.9% 45 Police Officers, 32 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 6 -- 9.0% 27.9% 63.1% $6,520 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE 2 School Districts -- 1. Ecorse, 2. River Rouge - Elementary and High Schools Catholic Schools 2 Railroads 1. Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, 2. Penn Central Bus service -- Great Lakes Transit Co. Detroit River Harbor Terminal COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS ( 3.91 miles) -- Outer Drive, Southfield and West Jefferson residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS 4,89 1 5,200 $163,496,358.00 38.18 550,000.00 acres 702 53 562 419 18 1,754 per cent 40 3 22-3 100 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport ( 8.5 miles west) DETROIT EDISON COMPANY The roots of Detroit go back to July 24, 1701, when the French arrived to build a fort (Ponchartrain) and fur trading post at this location. Detroit, meaning "on the straits", is one of the oldest cities in midwestern United States. It was ruled by the French until 1760, then by the English. It was not until 1796 that Ameri- cans occupied the fort. Detroit became incorporated in 1802 and served as the capital of Michigan from 1805 to 1847. It is the seat of Wayne County. Detroit occupies 140 square miles of Wayne County's 623. It lies in southeastern Michigan below Lake St. Clair on the Detroit River, across from the Canadian province of Ontario and the gate- way city of Windsor. Connecting the nations at this point are a railroad tunnel, a vehicular tunnel, and a bridge. Detroit is recognized as the center of the greatest single industry in the world the manufacture of automobiles. The engineering and manufacturing prowess of this center, in combination with a sophisticated, technically skilled labor force are without chal- lenge. It outranks all other industrial centers in the nation in the production of machine tool accessories, stampings, hardware, and industrial and inorganic chemicals. It ranks high in the product- ion of pharmaceuticals, paints, business machines, and tires. · Detroit is credited with the first mile of concrete road in America - the 'Miracle Mile" built in 1909. Since that time incredible advances have been made in road building. Detroit is wheel- minded, as can be seen by the metropolitan interconnecting free- way network which encompasses the city and its suburban com- munities. Residents can reach the heart of Detroit or connect with state and interstate freeways with ease and speed. Three major airports serve the Detroit metropolitan region. Five miles northeast of the central business district is Detroit City Airport, a busy general aviation airport handling private and corp- orate planes and four commuter airlines. Sixteen miles southwest of the city is Detroit Metropolitan Airport. This is the major pas- senger and cargo terminal airport for the region, providing regular flights to all parts of the nation and the world. Willow Run Air- port, nine miles west of Detroit Metropolitan Airport, handles a considerable amount of corporate aircraft and air cargo activity. about. Detroit is located on the direct seaway route to and from count- ries around the world via the St. Lawrence Seaway. In point of tonnage, it is the second largest seaport in the United States. The spirit and character of Detroit are best portrayed by its new Civic Center - a group of dramatic new buildings in the heart of the city. Among the new buildings are Cobo Hall, the world's largest convention facility; Veterans Memorial Building; the Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium, home of the noted Detroit Symphony Orchestra; the white marble and glass City-County Building; the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company, a Minoru Yamasaki build- ing; and the new Ponchartrain Hotel. This rebuilding on land once occupied by Fort Ponchartrain keynotes the renewal of many other sections in the city under a Model City Plan which recently qualified Detroit as a Federal Assistance Demonstration City. Government officials, businessmen, labor, religious, and educa tion leaders have combined forces in a bold community effort to improve the environmental quality of urban living in the nation's fifth largest city. Detroit is second to none as a dynamic indus- trial city, yet it is also a warm and friendly city with many quiet, lovely, tree-shaded neighborhoods. Activities for nearly every interest are enthusiastically supported. Education plays a vital role. Twenty-five institutions of higher learning in the Detroit metropolitan region work closely with the total community in co- operative programs of research and development. Dr. Constantinos Doxiadis, international authority on urban plan- ning and development, in a recent study which forecasts develop- ment of the Great Lakes region by the year 2000, named Detroit as the hub of a new super city which will cover 37 counties in Michigan, 9 in Ohio, and 3 in Canada - an urban area of 23,000 square miles, 200 miles from north to south and 150 miles from east to west. DETROIT NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT SOUTHGATE WOODHAVEN ROCK ALLEN PARK BROWNSTOWN ROCKWOOD TRENTON EN LINCOLN PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK GIBRALTA WYANDOTTE RIVER ROUGE ECORSE 이 ​nj GROSSE ILE 0 DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE I WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS al 1 1 I 1 15 LAMPHERE UTER DRIVE OUTER DRIVE วข EVERGREEN Jain TEMP 75 FREEWAY (39) FIELD SOUTH OUTER 14 GREEN-FIELD (102 LODGE DRIVE 20 TIREMAN SCHAEFER FREEWAY FENKELL OAK 364 DR 17 AVE. G MILE ONINOAM MAN B.S. 6967 JE 99 RR 10 SCHACE BLVD RD. LONYO WARREN i TEMP 75 AVE. SIONUDAIT FORT UNDI RD AVE 12 180 Inco B.S. นา 96 AVE HAMILTON LODGE MICHIGAN D VYC RR CONSTRUS Comm GRAND الشمال GAL HIGHLAND DAVISON VERNOR JEFFERSON AVE TION AVE FREEWAY DEQUINDRE WAY PARK BLVD 25 UNDER [10 With OUTER MILE CONANT DR RD. AVE AVE HOLBROOK HAMTRAM CK JUL MT. ELLIOTT AVE. GRATIOT VAN DYKE 53 D DTRR GRAND JEFFERSON GTWRR SET INTEREST River 25 JUJE BLVD 97 HOOVER CONNER AVE. WARREN SCHOEN{UERR OUTER DRIVE MACK CHALMERS KERCUEVAL BELLE Amalies Fark WJUL DTRR ISLE RD. HAYES CHAL //MERS KELLY AVE. NARPER WOODS MOKOSS CHANDLER PK AVE. MORANG AVE OUTER OR VERNIER GROSSE POINTE PARK PAPUN SE. DRIVE CADIEUX 94 HD MACK GROSSE POINTE RD MARTE GROSSE POINTE WOODS GR.PTE. SHORE S GROSS/E POIN/TE FAR/MS LAKE 29 1U0NS DR. LAND SIZE POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate SCHOOLS under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) 139.61 1,670,144 1,620,000 12.3% 14.7% 5.7% 7.8% 50.0% 9.5% • 17.1% 15.9% 67.0% $6,350 HOUSING 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES All utilities available (see note) LAND USE Detroit Public School System -- 340 schools 24 institutions of higher learning residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS $4,807,697,830.00 46.10 296,698,000.00 acres 36,950 2,770 11,100 38,530 89,350 514,837 5 10,000 PUBLIC SAFETY Modern policing facilities, exceptionally equipped fire department; Fire Insurance Class 2 (best rating) Health Centers, Hos- pitals and Nursing Homes. per cent 41.4 3.1 12.4 43.1 NOTE: Detroit Metropolitan Water Service serves 600 square miles, including 62 communities, with an unlimited supply of fresh water -- water rates are the lowest of any major city in the nation - area wide pollution prevention program in effect • sewage treatment and disposal system serves 50 suburban communities. 100.0 TRANSPORTATION 9 rail lines (5 offer passenger service), 3 downtown terminals, railroad tunnel to Canada • Complete interconnecting freeway system Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (16 miles southwest) Bus service -- D.S.R. (Detroit municipal coach system) serves an area of 233 square miles. International seaport. COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (82.02 miles)-- Chandler Park Drive, Conant, Davison, Dix, Hines Drive, Five Mile, Greenfield, Joy, Kelly, Lamphere, Lasher, Mack, Miller, Moross, Mound, Outer Drive, Schaefer, Schoolcraft, Seven Mile, Six Mile, Tireman, Warren, West Chicago, West Jefferson, and Wyoming. DEARBORN HEIGHTS is located in the central part of Wayne County on the periphery of the heavily populated areas of Detroit and Dearborn. It is an irregularly shaped city which was incor- porated in 1963 from portions of Dearborn Township and the Vil- lage of Inkster. Its history developed from the early 1800's when the Michigan Territory was laid out in townships by Governor Lewis Cass, and farmers settled here to till the rich soil. The first meeting of the newly organized Bucklin Township was held in 1827 in a school- house near Joseph Wilcox's farm. This schoolhouse later came to be known as "The Little Red Schoolhouse" and is now the city's Historical Museum. Bucklin Township was later divided into Pekin and Nankin Township; subsequently Pekin Township. was renamed Redford Township, and shortly afterward Dearborn Township was formed out of Redford Township. The city is a typical "bedroom community" composed principally of white collar workers whose income is derived from jobs in nearby Dearborn, Detroit, Allen Park, Ecorse, and Wyandotte. The residential areas of the city are pleasant and well maintained. except for a few of the older sections. A community-wide program for restoring and revitalizing these older sections has been initiated. Within its own limits, Dearborn Heights claims the highest ratio of parks and playground space per resident of any city in the State. A land use study and master plan which recommends an orderly reuse of land, was the basis for establishing an Industrial De- velopment Commission in Dearborn Heights. This department assists businesses and industry wishing to locate in the city. Federal funds were recently made available to release urban re- newal land for such use. In welcoming commerce, the motto "City with a Future" symbolizes a far reaching horizon and new image for the City of Dearborn Heights. about.... DEARBORN HEIGHTS CITY HALL 6045 Fenton Avenue Dearborn Heights, Michigan 48127 Telephone 561-4040 D egy A DEARBORN HEIGHTS I NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE r PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE ย SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT SOUTHGATE WOODHAVEN ROCK ALLEN PARK BROWNSTOWN ROCKWOOD TRENTON LINCOLN PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA GROSSE ILE RIVER ROUGE wi ECORSE inj DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS I ן B MERCEDES. "ANN ARBOR-TRAIL CAMBRIDGE CUMMINGS SHERBOURNE YAN SUREM CONSTAN $405.000 VOER TRAL COMMITED CRANFORD COLLEE .NOÏSMETIJA – 1 FAIRWOOD COOLIDGE TANBOY WILSON NORTHMORE TAGSHETLE JOGNY ARRAY SHLAHAM–2: DANIELS E THAMBOR ROUGE RN... 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COURTESY EDISON XX you LAND SIZE POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate SCHOOLS under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) 12.07 71,551 80,000 20.8% 17.1% 4.9% 6.9% 47.4% 1.9% -- 23.0% 8.2% 68.8% $9,290 HOUSING 1960 occupied dwelling units. 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial PUBLIC SAFETY 72 Police Officers, 43 Fire Fighters, 16 Volunteer Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 6 public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS 16,935 20,800 $ 199,243,165.00 47.04 7,206,000.00 acres 4,711.2 253.0 46.7 2,542.3 244.6 7,797.8 per cent 60.4 3.3 0.6 32.6 3.1 100.0 7 School Districts - 1. Cherry Hill, 2. Crestwood, 3. Dearborn Heights, 4. Fairlane, 5. Fairlane No. 8, 6. North Dearborn Heights, 7. Taylor -- Elementary, Secondary and High Schools. TRANSPORTATION Penn Central Railroad M-39 Freeway Federal and State Highways -- US 12, US 24, M-153 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County ● Airport (6.5 miles southwest) Bus service -- Metropolitan Transit, Inc. and D. S. R. (Detroit municipal coach system) COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (15.99 miles) Beech - Daly, Hines Drive, Inkster, Joy, Outer Drive, Van Born and Warren I COMPANY DETROIT MAP OF DEARBORN is a residential and manufacturing city bordering the southwest limits of Detroit. It was the home of the legendary Henry Ford and is the headquarters for the world famous company he founded. The city is laid out on the axis of Michigan Avenue (US-12), which in the early frontier days was known as the Sauk Trail, a 2,000 mile Indian trail which stretched from Montreal to New Orleans. Dearborn gets its name from General Henry Dearborn who was commander of the U.S. Army at the beginning of the War of 1812. Two population centers at each end of the city comprise the modern community of Dearborn. In 1928 original Dearborn (west) and the City of Fordson (east) were consolidated and incorporated as one - Dearborn. Visitors are attracted annually to many of Dearborn's highlights - the Ford Rouge Plant, one of the largest industrial plants in the world; internationally famous Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum, a unique 260 acre setting depicting an unsur- passed collection of three centuries of American history; the Ford Central Office buildings and the Engineering and Design Center Building, administrative headquarters, computer center, and research heart of Ford's world-wide operation. Ford employ- ment in Dearborn, according to 1960 U.S. census information, was 53,957. Ford is not, however, the only industry in Dearborn. Two hundred other industries are also located here, many of them world-wide in scope. Dearborn provides its residents with facilities, services, social and recreational activities far beyond the usual and customary, A new civic center, a sports arena, an auditorium, a memorial library, a new campus of the University of Michigan, and a new campus of the Henry Ford Community College (built through) donations of land and funds from Ford Motor Company and the Ford Foundation) display a growing cultural and social life in Dearborn. about.. DEARBORN CITY HALL 13615 Michigan Avenue Dearborn, Michigan 48126 Telephone 584-1200 ~ Sar DEARBORN : ¦ NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH TH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN ROCKWOOD TRENTON LINCOLN PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA GROSSE ILE RIVER ROUGE ECORSE ni DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS LAND SIZE HOUSING 1 1 י 1 3000||$| VOCITATOR WRENCE THỜI TEAMSCH CRESCENT. 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Opw})-- FORD fitne MOTON COMPANY BEATY VINIALIST ~ROTUNDA--DR · FORD JIC MOD, E, POTE 、--、“ན། -115013 - BONNON- -C80 RR--- 101 LINGSLET =DTRR 19-y MOR MILE T ** Si FONATH -{M}© ཀ -WYOMING- MILLER - • [TWATER INDIANA C COULTER FGRAHAM™ CENTENCE -WARREN= SKADORSA ·CRAT ܘ ܕܣܝܡ ܫܡܥ BRANDT MISMOSI - stečiek NYCRR Strict T KATEREM Ah, I **** FEDSEL Tsauno J000 - by the opera " |------BAS HOLLY AMAZON ARROW ROULO LOURET # FON: G HUATL CANT BIEOD TERNE - MILLER SALINA MAP COURTESY OF L **** POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over SCHOOLS managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) PUBLIC SAFETY 24.47 112,007 115,000 TRANSPORTATION 10.7% 15.8% 6.8% 7.2% 51.9% 7.6% 17.1% 15.9% 67.0% $8,500 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas. and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS $787,408,900.00 53.10 10,580,000.00 acres 3,933.9 517.9 181 Police Officers, 110 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 3 Oakwood Hospital, Dearborn Medical Center Hospital 2,392.7 4,411.4 4,874.1 16.130.0 33,898 34,750 per cent 24.4 3.2 14.8 27.4 30.2 100.0 2 School Districts -- 1. Dearborn, 2. Fairlane -- Elementary, Secondary and High Schools Catholic, Lutheran and Private Schools Henry Ford Community College State Bus service - • -- I 3 Railroads - 1. Chesapeake & Ohio, 2. Detroit Toledo & Ironton, 3. Penn Central 2 Freeways 1. 1- 94, 2. M- 39 and Federal Highways -- US 12, US 24, M - 153 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (4 miles west) Metropolitan Transit, Inc. and D. S. R. (Detroit municipal coach system) COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (30.9 miles) - Butler, Dix, Gildow, Greenfield, Evergreen, Oakman, Oakwood, Outer Drive, Tireman Miller, Ferney, Pelham, Rotunda Drive, Village, Warren and Wyoming · DETROIT EDISON COMPANY GARDEN CITY, located in central Wayne County, was developed after World War I as a suburban garden community. The land de- velopers called it "The Sun Parlor of Detroit." It attracted families of workers employed in the nearby auto plants who wanted a house and garden "for pride and profit" on a large lot away from "the city." Today, the shrubbery, trees and gardens have matured and these early residences of distinctively indi- vidual appearance are the mark of that period. The first so-called "local farm" in this suburban community was sold in 1921. The land sale signified the end of the pioneering farm history of this area which began in the spring of 1825 when Marcus Swift and Luther Reeves of Palmyra, New York, set out for the wilds of Michigan. They traveled by Erie Canal to Detroit, and then along the Rouge River westward. An old Indian trail brought them to what was Bucklin Township where they each located and purchased 160 acres of land, thinking "this is near to Paradise as any locality they were likely to find." The area was covered by dense forest of huge hardwood trees and small meadows known as "Oak Openings." The families who followed in the fall of 1825 and afterward came from the east. Another group from County Cavan in the north of Ireland began to arrive in 1834, and for the next 100 years the community was commonly referred to as "New Ireland" and "Irish Town." Bucklin Township was divided in 1829 into Nankin and Pekin Townships. The settlement which was to become Garden City was part of Nankin Township. It was incorporated as a village. in 1927, and in 1933 it became a city. Garden City today is a modest residential suburb lying approxi- mately three miles west of Detroit's city limits. Most of its re- sidents are employed outside of its own geographical limits in nearby industrial and commercial complexes. Very little indus- trial and commercial development exists at the present time with- in the city. However, a Master Plan Study shows the city to be well located and suited to an industrial market focused on the automotive industries in and around Detroit. It points particularly to the Garden City Industrial Park, which has access to State about.. Highway M-153 (Ford Road) and other nearby highways and free- ways, full utilities, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, seven miles south, and availability of a Detroit labor pool regarded as one of the most productive in the nation. Garden City's residents are a social-minded group with many civic associations. Activities for all age groups are sponsored and promoted throughout the year. Recreational and leisure time outlets are conveniently close. The Middle Rouge Parkway, a beautiful County park development, is one such facility located at the city's northern limits. GARDEN CITY HALL 6000 N. Middle Belt Road Garden City, Michigan 48135 Telephone 421-1262 GARDEN CITY : NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE ย SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN ROCKWOOD TRENTON MELVINDALE LINCOLN ECORSE PARK RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA RIVER ROUGE GROSSE ILE ០ DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE | WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS I 3d 1 + I I I κυπτου 3900 PARDO RADCLIFFE RALPH- TTE -SCHUMAN- 100_0. 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KRAUTER (BLOCK rBIRCHLAWN PARDO HARTELL ·GARDEN- 101310 SHERIDAN ROSSLYN rDONNELLY MARQUETTE HARTEL HARTEL FLORENCE ALVIN KATHRYN ILEONA ПП 19371 17 LATHERS HARRISON NVN 119. NAPLEWOOD UUL THELENT LATHERS TELMWOOD ☐☐☐ [M-153 DEERING GILMAN WINDSOR- BEECHWOOD HELEN- (JOHN-HAUK 1010! 0 CHESTER 1000 DAWSON 100 DEERING STERLING 10 BOCK 1000 000000 CARDWELL BELTON ARCOLA LAND SIZE POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate SCHOOLS under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) 5.87 38,017 42,300 23.4% 20.4% 4.7% 5.9% 43.6% 2.0% CON 17.5% 8.9% 73.6% $8,450 HOUSING 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout. LAND USE acres 1,892.03 63.77 13.50 public and quasi-public 1,107.54 vacant and agricultural TOTALS 615.96 3,692.80 residential commercial industrial $88,465,207.00 53.39 1,461,000.00 PUBLIC SAFETY 36 Police Officers, 22 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 6 Parkvue General Hospital, Garden City Osteopathic Hospital 9,109 9,900 per cent 51.25 1.72 0.37 29.98 16.68 100.00 Garden City School District -- 10 Elementary Schools, 4 Junior High Schools and 2 Senior High Schools Catholic and Lutheran Schools TRANSPORTATION ● State Highway -- M - 153 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (5.5 miles south) Bus service -- Metropolitan Transit, Inc. and D. S. R. (Detroit municipal coach system) COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (8.83 miles) Cherry Hill, Inkster, Merriman, Middle Belt, Venoy and Warren 1 MAP COURTESY OF DETROIT EDISON COMPANY GIBRALTAR, located at the mouth of the Detroit River and Lake Erie, is comprised of a portion of mainland and four islands: Horse, Hall, Edmund, and Main. It was an important frontier post in the history of the Northwest Territory and an arena of con- siderable military activity during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Historically, the "Island of Gibraltar" (identified as Horse Island today) was the American lookout post which pre- ceded the victorious American naval engagement in 1813 of the first American fleet in Lake Erie and the British fleet. The actual village of Gibraltar was founded in 1836 by the Gibraltar and Flat Rock Company. Their project was to build a canal, patterned after the Erie Canal, across the State from the mouth of the Huron River to Lake Michigan. The company failed 11 years later due to the depression of 1847. Traces of the early stages of the canal are still found locally. Gibraltar is the southernmost city in the Detroit downriver in- dustrial district. It was incorporated as a village in 1954 and be- came a city on August 15, 1961. It was a shipbuilding community in the early 1800's and prospered with this single industry for many years. The dominant industry today is a cold rolling steel mill which occupies almost all of the waterfront industrial land. The planned extension of the Trenton Channel (also known as the "All-American Channel") in the Detroit River will provide a continuous river depth of 28 feet as far south as Gibraltar. The channel extension is to be completed in 1970. The movement of Great Lakes shipping which is expected to be generated when the project is completed, forecasts a climate of economic growth for this area. The islands which comprise Gibraltar are separated by waterway canals and connected by bridges. They are exclusively residential and make an ideal setting for attractive and pleasant living. Although still in its growth stage, Gibraltar can offer water and sewer facilities throughout all of its area, natural gas, electric power, and river water for industries requiring raw cooling water. Aside from its superior location on the Detroit River, the city has excellent highway and rail facilities. West Jefferson, the historic about.. River Road, crosses through the city and Interstate 75 is less than a mile away. GIBRALTAR CITY HALL 29450 Munro Avenue Gibraltar, Michigan 48173 Telephone 676-3900 GIBRALTAR : NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE ย SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT SOUTHGATE ROCK ALLEN PARK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN EN ROCKWOOD TRENTON LINCOLN PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK GIBRALTA WYANDOTTE GROSSE ILE RIVER ROUGE 1 ECORSE ni DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK TRA Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE JWOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS LAND SIZE HOUSING I I 1 * FORT OSTREICH D. & T. S. L. R.R. WOODRUFF -N. Y. C. R.R. FORT 35 * 15600 15000 29100 STOEFLET11 30200 GIBRALTAR IS. GIBRALTAR VREELAND YOUNG 27550 LISCH 36 29000 BLAKELY N GIBRALTAR WHITE FRYER 29800 NAVARRE "MARR CHEMLO YOUNG EWORTH: RENO FFERSON POINTE LNOSINN30 TRIANGLE ·DOWNY POINTE DR- LENA 27000 SPRINGSTEAD 14100 13800 BAY NOSTIA- VIEW -HOBART ADAMS18 MUNRO LOWELL DAVIS JU SGRAND VIEW CORAL JU STOEFLET ROSE WRIGHT GERALD DE LAVERN, ADDISON TIVY LESLIE NEELY TCLYDE STORK 31000 ** ISLAND DR~ HORSE ISLAND C MAP COURTESY OF A POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over SCHOOLS managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) PUBLIC SAFETY TRANSPORTATION 4.35 2,196 3,500 -- -- 14.6% 16.7% 6.3% 7.7% 48.5% 6.2% 16.1% 13.1% 70.8% $9,610 12 Police Officers, 20 Volunteer Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 7 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE Gibraltar School District 5 Elementary Schools and 1 High School Catholic School residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS 647 980 $25,275,140.00 49.69 1,392,000.00 acres 696 84 84 500 752 2,784 per cent 25 3 27 18 27 100 • State Highway -- M-85 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County 2 Railroads 1. Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, 2. Penn Central Airport (9.1 miles northwest) COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (7.92 miles) -- Adams, Fort, Gibraltar, N. Gibraltar, S. Gibraltar, Stoeflet, Vreeland and W. Jefferson DETROIT EDISON COMPANY GROSSE POINTE is synonomous with wealth and affluence. The five Grosse Pointe communities lying along Lake St. Clair in the northeast sector of Wayne County are tranquil, elegant, residen- tial communities. Here are the estates and mansions of many pro- minent families who are descendants of the industrial pioneers in Detroit and Wayne County. The territory comprising Grosse Pointe Township was originally included in Hamtramck Township. It was made a separate town- ship on April 1, 1848. The present five communities were all at one time a part of Grosse Pointe Township. The name "Grosse Pointe' comes from the point of land projecting into the water at the foot of Lake St. Clair. The area figures prominently in American frontier history its first settlers were French, fam- ilies of men who had come with Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac to found the military outpost and fur trading center of Fort Pon- chartrain (the site now known as Detroit). -- Grosse Pointe is administered through five separate local govern- ments. There are no industries here. The major attraction is a fine residential atmosphere with all of the accoutrements of fine community living, concomitant with select shops, good schools, community centers, libraries, hospitals, and churches. In recent years many of the large estates have given way to housing on a more modest scale though still retaining a luxuriousness in har- mony with the long established genteel climate. The five communities which comprise Grosse Pointe are Grosse Pointe Park, Grosse Pointe City, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe Shores, and Grosse Pointe Woods at the tip of Wayne County. (A portion of Grosse Pointe Woods lies in bordering Macomb County.) about..... ..GROSSE PTE, GROSSE PTE FARMS, GROSSE PTE WOODS, GROSSE PTE PARK, GROSSE PTE SHORES # NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE ย SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN ROCKWOOD TRENTON MELVINDALE my LINCOLN OLN ECORSE PARK RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA RIVER ROUGE GROSSE ILE 1 DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS I w GROSSE PTE WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK I 1 I I TECE THE BEACONSFIELD METAL BERKSHIRE AIDRINGTON BUCKINGHAM Hill #Proud SARAI THERE ARE THERE ARE MA.7 ESSE WESTCHESTER AVCHDALE PEMBERTON MIDULESEX WHITTIER ~LAREPOINTE **** .. 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EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles SCHOOLS 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over median family income (1966-67 estimate) Note: managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled PUBLIC SAFETY TRANSPORTATION 12.27 55,032 60,220 9.2% 15.7% 7.5% 4.9% 52.4% 10.3% G 54.5% 4.8% 40.7% $15,140 HOUSING 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) The figures shown represent a mean of the five communities UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS 10 Elementary Schools, 3 Junior High Schools and 1 Senior High School Many Private and Parochial Schools 1-94 Freeway • State Highway M-29. -- Lake Shore Coach Lines. COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (10.12 miles) -- E. Jefferson, Lake Shore Drive, Mack and Moross acres Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (23.5 miles southwest) $324,578,783.00 7,774.3 23.6 54.9 16,299 17,710 7,852.8 140 Police Officers, 125 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 6 Bon Secours Hospital, Cottage Hospital of Grosse Pointe and Wayne County Health Department. 47.77 per cent 99.0 0.3 0.7 100.0 • Bus service DETROIT EDISON COMPANY HAMTRAMCK, like its next door neighbor, Highland Park, is a politically independent city surrounded by the City of Detroit. The similarity ends here, however, for no community in Wayne County expressed its growing pains with more lively and impassioned political turbulence. Hamtramck is a self-conscious community with a Polish immi- grant heritage. The immigrants who settled here in the 1920's came from the rural villages of Old Russia-Poland (Russia before World War 1) where the conditions for peasantry were those of poverty and hopelessness. With the opening of the Dodge Plant in Hamtramck in the 20's, Polish immigrants and their families crowded into the town to new jobs and new hopes. The decades that followed produced a mixture of politics, industrialism, and foreign customs and traditions that have made Hamtramck world famous. The history of Hamtramck goes back to the post Revolutionary War days and the surrender of Detroit. Colonel John Francis Hamtramck was a French-Canadian who served as a soldier and companion to "Mad" Anthony Wayne, for whom the County is named. The earliest occupants of Hamtramck were French who estab- lished the names of some of the main streets. Later, Germans and Irish settled in the town and left a legacy of street names; and finally, the newer names are derived from the Polish immigrant families who ascended to the community leader ship. Hamtramck is an industrial city containing such large manufac- turing firms as Chevrolet and Dodge. Many of the first Polish immigrants still live in the same homes which were built for them in the "new world". Most of the houses, freshly painted and modernized, still reflect the pride of home ownership of the immi- grant which was denied in the "old country". about. HAMTRAMCK CITY HALL 3201 Roosevelt Avenue Hamtramck, Michigan 48212 Telephone 874-2400 .HAMTRAMCK NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE ย SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN ROCKWOOD TRENTON LINCOLN PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA GROSSE ILE RIVER ROUGE ~ ECORSE inj DETROIT HARPER WOODS TRAN HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission. 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE || WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS 1 I I I AVE. AVE. OKLAHOMA AVE. RIDGE GRAND HAVEN DYAR AVE. SELF CARPENTER DEQUINDRE DYAR G. T. W. R. R. NAGEL WOOD LANI ID COM COM MOR GRAND HAVEN ST. AUBIN #*#*#* AVE. AVE. ULL LUMPKIN CAS FLE MIN NEIBEL AVE G MER E AVE. BOTSFORD KENWOOD # MAC KAY COMMOR AVE. ZINOW AVE PULASKI WHALEN CASMERE TROWBRIDGE BELMONT YEMANS AVE AVE. AVE EVALINE AVE. EDWIN N JOS. CAMPAU AVE. BURGER AVE AVE. 拜耳​拜拜 ​NORWALK HOLMES AVE. CANIFF POLAND MITCHELL |COM] |MOR AVE. AVE. ST. AUBIN AVE. BRO MBA CH AVE. MC DOUGALL #* CHAREST GALLAGHER SOBIESKI KLINGER AVE. LAVE. CASM ERE AVE. AVE. AVE. FLORIAN BENARD DE BOIS AVE LUMPKI AVE. CAN IFF AVE. AVE AVE. AVE. TROWBRIDGE AVE. GEIMER ---- AVE LATH AM BELMONT AVE. MORAN HEWITT AVE. WYANDOTTE AVE. YEMANS AVE. FABER GOODSON AVE! AVE uuuuu LI EVALINE AVE. AVE MITCHELL AVE. DANFORTH AVE. AVE. ANDRUS AVE. GRAYLING ALICE MC DOUGALL AVE. AVE. AVE AVE. AVE. DENTON CHAREST AVE. CLAY AVE AVE. LEHMAN HANLEY JACOB WIN FIELD SMITH AVE. DUBOIS AVE AVE. AVE. HAROLD AVE PRESCOTT AVE CONAN HI EDWIN FALCON AVE. NORWALK ROOSEVELT DOREMUS GOODSON AVE. AVE. COMSTOCK BERRES WE ARE DAN AVE AVE. HOLBROOK AVE. AVE. AVE. COUNCIL AVE. ELLINERY AVE. AVE. AVE. GRAN DY AVE. AVE. AVE. MILLER AVE. AVE. G.I.W.R.R. NEWTON AVE. AVE. AVE. HMC DOUGALL CRAIG BLYD AVE. DENTON FALO BUF ROCKWOOD BUTLER AVE # AVE MANHATTAN AVE COLLINS KLINGER AVE. CHRISTOPHER AVE. ALPENA VINCENT AVE. MORAN OLIVER AVE. DOROTHY AVE. MILLER AVE. MARCUS ***===== ELLERY WL 1 ** LAND SIZE POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate SCHOOLS under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) TRANSPORTATION 2.09 34,137 31,300 -- 11.6% 13.1% 5.4% 7.6% 48.6% 13.7% -- 9.1% 18.9% 72.0% $5,345 HOUSING 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units. TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES 2 Railroads 1 Grand Trunk, 2. Penn Central 1 - 75 Freeway Bus service D. S. R. (Detroit municipal coach system) COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (3.13 miles) Conant and Jos Campau water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE PUBLIC SAFETY 79 Police Officers, 66 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 4 Hamtramck Health Department, St. Francis Hospital residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS acres 812 93 237 196 $113,046,560.00 43.66 936,000.00 10,767 9,950 1,338 Hamtramck School District -- 4 Elementary Schools, 1 Junior High School and 1 Senior High School Catholic Elementary and High Schools per cent 60.7 6.9 17.7 14.7 100.0 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (17.6 miles) The City of HARPER WOODS is located in northeast Wayne County. It adjoins Detroit on two sides, Grosse Pointe Woods on another, and Macomb County on its northern border. It is a city of recent origin, created in October, 1951. The his- tory of Harper Woods dates back to about 1850 when Caspar Salter purchased a 100 acre plot of land here. In the midst of what was then densely wooded forest area, he and his bride were the first to make their home. Their log cabin fronted on a narrow wagon trail called "Pumpkin Hook Road" (now Kelly Road). This tract of land was part of Hamtramck Township, one of the original nine townships in the County created in 1827. It later became Grosse Pointe Township, and subsequently, Gratiot Township (1896). Harper Woods was the last remnant of Gratiot township. The recent development of Harper Woods can be attributed mainly to two factors the location of the 1-94 Freeway and the con- struction of Eastland Shopping Center, a $25,000,000 complex built by the J. L. Hudson Company. The Edsel B. Ford Freeway (1-94) traverses Harper Woods and provides entrance and exit facilities at locations within the city for local traffic. The Harper Woods section was opened in 1959. In 1957 the multi-million dollar Eastland Shopping Center, a 106 acre development, was opened and has been the city's economic mainstay ever since. Eastland is more than a regional shopping center. It provides a cultural setting for art exhibits, concerts, square dancing, dis- plays, meeting rooms for civic functions, and numerous other events for the surrounding region. · Today, Harper Woods is a neat, quiet suburb of Detroit with generally high quality homes. Most of its residents work in Detroit. Harper Woods has the pleasant atmosphere of a "small town in a big city." It retains the advantages of the big city, being only minutes away by car from any point in Detroit, yet providing the enjoyable atmosphere of "small town" living with spacious areas, friendly neighborhood environment, good stores. and schools. about... HARPER WOODS CITY HALL 19617 Harper Avenue Harper Woods, Michigan 48236 Telephone 881-2340 .HARPER WOODS ---༥ NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN Gog 2 BELLEVILLE SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN ROCKWOOD TRENTON LINCOLN PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA GROSSE ILE RIVER ROUGE ECORSE ni DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE " WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS . 1 RIAD #t AVE AING MACOMB CO. WAYNE AVE. CO++ LANS DOWN||E AVE SSC 102 # ER AVE. The BEAC ONSF G731 CRESTLA WOODMONT 55 ROSE KINGSVILLE ELKHART KENOSHA WASHTENAW ROSCOMMON CT. WOODSIDE BALFOUR WOODCREST CT. RD. P HARPER OLD WOODLAND CT. EASTWOOD HOMESTEAD HUNTINGTON ||PEER LESS RD. WOODMONT AVE. DAMMAN DUPR EY 11 AVE. 1 x CHURCH CT. BALFOUR AVE AVE. AVE. SAN EASTLAND VILLAGE |DR. AVE. LAC ANITA VERNIER AVE EIGHT. MILE BALFOUR LANCASTER COUNTRY CLUB LOCHMOOR FLEETWOOD HUN DR. 94 DR. AVE. S LUB DR. WILLIAMSBURG HARP ER OR. # IN. HARPER DR. 1-0 LENNON DUPREY BEAUFAIT KCASTLE VAN ANTWERP HUNT CLUB KENMORE AVE. BLVD. DANBURY BOURNEMOUTH EDGEFIELD T AVE. HOLLYWOOD TYRONE DUPREY SANI LAC AVE. ### SLOAN 11 KINGSVILLE LITTLESTONE ### "CHE WILDWOOD MANCHESTER STER NEWCASTLE RIDGEMONT WOODMONT SEVERN PRESTWICK DR. AVE TT PARKCREST BRIARSTONE BERDE NORWOOD CRAIG LANE HUNT CLUB BROADSTONE 1盏​花 ​LOCHMOOR KENMORE AVE. ARTHUR COUNTRY CLUB LANCASTER ROLANDALE Co 94 FLEETWOOD CANT BEAUFAIT LENNON 10 AVE. VAN ANTWERP DR. EASTBORNE 巷 ​VERNIER LES ANITA LIE HAWTHORNE HOLLYWOOD AVE. HELEN ∞ HUNTINGTON BLVD. RIDGMONT CHESTE HAMPTON HELEN JU ROSLY N 耳​其 ​拜拜 ​29 LAND SIZE POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over SCHOOL managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) PUBLIC SAFETY 2.63 TRANSPORTATION 19,995 22,600 1-94 Freeway State Highway -- M 29 D. S. R. (Detroit municipal coach system) COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (0.56 miles) -- Kelly 14.5% 20.2% 6.1% 5.1% 50.0% 4.1% 30 Police Officers, 17 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 6 25.7% 9.0% 65.3% $8,970 HOUSING 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS 5,383 6,200 $81,883,865.00 47.91 808,000.00 acres 951.9 147.7 3.3 496.0 84.1 1,683.0 per cent 56.5 8.8 0.2 29.5 2 School Districts - 1. Grosse Pte, 2. Harper Woods -- 2 Elementary Schools, 1 Junior High School and 1 Senior High School Catholic and Lutheran Schools 5.0 100.0 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (24.2 miles southwest) Bus service HIGHLAND PARK is a residential/industrial city. Like neigh- boring Hamtramck, which borders it on one side, it lies com- pletely within the City of Detroit. It is the headquarters of the Chrysler Corporation. It is notable also as the home of the first Ford factory (built in 1908), scene of Henry Ford's now historic "five dollar daily minimum wage" announcement in 1914 which spurted the swift and sudden growth of Highland Park. Another "first" credited to Highland Park is the first limited access highway in Michigan, forerunner of the existing network of modern freeways in Michigan and Wayne County. This is the Davison Freeway, a 7,000 foot, depressed roadway built through the City of Highland Park by the Wayne County Road Commission. It was begun in the summer of 1941 and opened on November 25, 1942. The history of Highland Park actually begins with the opening of land by the U.S. Government beyond the picket limits of early Detroit after the disastrous fire of 1805 which destroyed every building but one, and left 500 persons homeless. The adjoining. new village was called Woodwardville (1825) after Judge Augustus B. Woodward who figured prominently in the reconstruction of Detroit and the plans of the new community. The name changed to Whitewood in 1846 when a post office was established (named after the whitewood trees which were used by the settlers to build their houses and barns). In 1889 the village incorporated, and the name was changed again to Highland Park -- a name in- spired by the high ridge of land where the first settler had built his cabin (the ridge was leveled when Woodward Avenue was put through). Highland Park was incorporated as a city in 1918. Thirty-two different nationalities make up Highland Park's populace. They partake in numerous programs, which began in the 1920's as citizenship classes to embody and assimilate the several groups into harmonious community living. An annual International Festival and World Market have become traditional noteworthy events. about.... " U 146- *** HIGHLAND PARK CITY HALL 30 Gerald Avenue Highland Park, Michigan 48203 Telephone 868-5400 D .HIGHLAND PARK ■ - : i i NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE 2 SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN ROCKWOOD TRENTON LINCOLN OL PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA GROSSE ILE RIVER ROUGE Wi ECORSE DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE JWOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES Y GROSSE PTE FARMS S GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS www. I I BA I I HILL X NORTH AVE. GROVE AVE. BRIGHTON GENE VA FLORENCE LOUISE EASON WE AVE · PORTAGE AVE, AVE AVE GROVE AVE GENEVA AVE MOSS PROSPECT GEORGE EDWARD FLORENCE AVE PILGRIM LOUISE PURITAN CURWOOD MIDLAND EASON I AVE. MOSS AVE x IWE. 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R.R L⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ LAND SIZE POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate SCHOOLS under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) 2.96 C TRANSPORTATION 38,063 36,000 9.5% 11.4% 5.2% 7.9% 51.8% 14.2% 17.7% 18.2% 64.1% $5,620 HOUSING 1960 occupied dwelling units. 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial 00 public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS $181,576,025.00 53.71 3,142,000.00 acres 721.2 101.2 13,820 13,400 441.5 601.2 29.0 1,894.1 PUBLIC SAFETY 110 Police Officers, 100 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 3 • Hospitals -- Detroit Osteopathic, Highland Park General, Wood- ward General and North Woodward Highland Park City Health Department per cent 38.0 5.4 23.3 31.8 1.5 100.0 Highland Park School District -- 6 Elementary Schools, 2 Junior High Schools and 1 Senior High School ⚫ Catholic Schools. Highland Park Community College AN 2 Railraods -- 1. Detroit Terminal, 2. Grand Trunk 2 Freeways BS696 and Davison • Federal Highway - US 10 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (15.9 miles southwest) Bus service -- D.S.R. (Detroit municipal coach system), Great Lakes Transit Co. and Martin Lines COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (3.28 miles) -- Davison, Davison N., Davison S. and Six Mile The City of INKSTER in central Wayne County lies approximately five miles west of the city limits of Detroit. It is surrounded by industrial highways; 1-94, US 24, M 153 and 1-275 which is sched- uled for completion in 1972. All of these roads are within five miles of the city. Michigan Avenue, US 12, bisects Inkster and makes connections with the afore-mentioned highways. The city is two and a half miles from Detroit Metropolit an Airport. Inkster's beginning trails back to the 1830's when Governor Cass and the U.S. Army initiated the extension of Michigan Avenue as a military highway from Detroit to Lake Michigan. Michigan Ave- nue (US 12) passes through Inkster. During the great era of rail- road building, the Michigan Central Railroad laid its main Detroit- Chicago tracks through this area and the village of Inkster be- came a railroad station along the route. The settlement was first known as "Moulin Rouge" after a red saw mill owned by Robert Inkster who supplied cord wood and railroad ties to the railroad company. It was renamed "Inkster" on July 11, 1863. By that time, Robert Inkster had already made a mark in the community as religious teacher, postmaster, merchant, and realtor. Inkster was incorporated as a village on July 26, 1926, and became a city in 1964. The industrial development of the Ford Rouge plant and the downriver area in the 1920's spurred the growth of Inkster as a residential community. From a small settlement in 1922 of 150, Inkster has grown to an estimated 42,000 in 1967. The community is endowed with very fine civic-minded, social- conscious leadership. Planning and zoning functions are of prime concern, evidenced by a city beautification program, con- servation of neighborhoods, and rebuilding of old neighborhoods. A singular scenic feature in Inkster is the beautiful Lower Rouge Parkway, a County park which extends entirely through Inkster in an east-west direction. about.. # Im "J INKSTER CITY HALL 2121 Inkster Road Inkster, Michigan 48141 Telephone 565-4100 INKSTER ¡ NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE LEVILL 21 SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN EN ROCKWOOD TRENTON MELVINDALE / LINCOLN ECORSE PARK RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA RIVER ROUGE GROSSE ILE DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK RA Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE J WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS 1 HOUSING LAND SIZE 1 I 1 100 SPRING HENRY RUFF 26 HWOOD GEOFFREY CLAIRT KEN KLINK: ARBOR BETTY LANE DR. SUSAN CT CARLYSLE VER TE LOVENT WESTERN BROOKL - PIERCE- PINE ECL LOVETT12 1838 J -SPRINGARBOR D IBERT CIR. JUDITH ~HIVELEY- STEINHAUER' BIRCHWOOD EDWARD GRANDVIEW LEXINGTON EFFREY-DIVISION- BEECH BURNS PINE DR MEADOW CIR [BURJON · ELLESLEY LEXINGTON PKY CT MEADOWN 29400 71 FARNUM GERTRUDE 1 C1 MIDDLE₁rBELT· OWAWAY PAXTON · RAMSAY] TEGGE STANWOOD FRAZIER FARNUM LONGFELLOW GREENWOOD CENTRAL THOMAS CIR CARLTON "PALMER CENTRAL- ROSEWOOD : BARRINGTON 1 THILLCREST NORTHLAND VICKSBURC. PARK HYDE CENTRAL WAYLAND 1119 YORKVILLE TIPTON *GLENT EASTERN BEECHNUT -FERNWOOD GRANDVIEW O'HENRY CT EMERSON- MICHIGAN YORK BIRCHWOOD PARKWOOD OAKWOOD THAZELWOOD MANNING KEWADIN LUDINGTON -IRENE- ROOSEVELT EASTERN ISABELLE -SPRINGHALL 24 DURAND CRYSTAL SPRINGHILL BRIDGEPORT U HARRIET RIVER REYWOLDS 7 CHERRY MAGNOLIA [HARRIET 2000 MAGNOLIA SOMERSET WOODLAND HELENT ROSEWOOD VIEW: ST-MICHAEL JUSTINE US 12 25 VELM BEECHI T EMERSON CENTER 00 60- D ¡PINE CR ALGER JOSEPHINE TROMBLEY HENRY 00000 "π CHESTNUT KURTSELL NORTHWOOD DR ・COLONIAL OR WILLIAMS CARLISLE |||||||||| EASTWOOD TER LEITH [ANDOVER النا -MOORE ALFRED /GAINSBOROUGH PHIPPS REYNOLDS LEHIGH SHERBOURNE FREDA CIR WOODSFIELD EMERSON 100 LUCERNE ORONA. 1000 129001 CRESCENT DOD SUNNINGOALE AIRWOOD ENSURES TESTS AND WIETHOFF -S-RIVER FARK SOUTHERN WEST WELLINGTONI IVERNON LOWER ROUGE PAY WARNERS AS Mona RIVERA ARLINGTON KITCH 3700 10 KEAN AMHERST BRENT NEW YORK NOTRE DAME FLORENCE אורך ICICS PRINCETONT NKSTER S-RIVERPARK WESTHILLS 107100 AUBURN PRINCESS MONTICELLO J[ RIVERPARK D SPONTIAC -NORFOLK PRINCESSг MARSHALL MORLEY STOLLMAN SUNNINGDALE [EDSUL MEADOWBROOK OAKLAND -TROWBRIDGE 31 JOHN-DALY الال ´´ANDOVER´ SHADOWLAWN 171 STANFORD CHERRY HILL SOMERSET MING PATTERSON CIR BILTMORE GRANDMONT FAIRBAIRN COLCATE [CXFORD PLUM CARLYSLE "DARTMOUTH- LEHICH HOPKINS PENN AVONDALE [PRADO MICHIGAN WOODBINE WEST PHALIA BAYHAM MEIE DENTAIT 2520 I HED FRANKLINK [KENWOOD- TURBAN WOOD FELLRATH TALE FLOREN: FROSS S POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over SCHOOLS managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) PUBLIC SAFETY 6.28 39,097 41,800 20.5% 21.1% 5.5% 6.7% 43.0% 3.2% -- 17.5% 18.6% 63.9% 47 Police Officers, 20 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 6 $7,960 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS 5 School Districts - 1. Cherry Hill, 2. Dearborn, 3. Inkster, 4. Taylor, 5. Wayne Community $70,169,530.00 49.70 3,494,000.00 acres 8,604 9,870 1,385 117 39 1,584 894 4,019 per cent 34.4 3.0 1.0 39.3 22.3 100.0 TRANSPORTATION Penn Central Railroad Federal Highway - US 12 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (2.5 miles south) • Bus -- service D. S. R. (Detroit municipal coach system) and Metropolitan Transit, Inc. COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (5.78 miles) -- Cherry Hill, Inkster and Middle Belt I MAP COURTESY OF DETROIT EDISON COMPANY LINCOLN PARK, one of the downriver communities in the Detroit Metropolitan area, is located at the junction of the north and south branches of the Ecorse River. There is a plaque at this point which identifies it as "Council Point," the scene in May 1763 of the Pontiac Conspiracy where 2,000 Indian warriors and 200 chiefs, representing Ottawas, Potowatomis, and Hurons, gathered to plot the destruction of the encroaching white man on their hunting grounds. Thirteen years after the ill-fated war council, chiefs of the Potowatomi nation deeded a huge tract of land to a Frenchman living at Detroit. That grant, dated July 1, 1776, four days before the American Declaration of Independence, gave Pierre St. Cosme a piece of property which included all of present day Lincoln Park. St. Cosme died in 1787 and his family sold the property to French farmers living in Detroit and Windsor. The early settlers purchased strip farms only a few hundred yards wide on the Detroit riverfront, but extending back into the forest for several miles. They came to be known as St. Cosme grant farms. As families grew new generations built homes back from the rivers. Early in the 1800's, the first homes were built in what was to become Lincoln Park. In 1827 the area was incorporated into the Township of Ecorse, one of the original nine townships in Wayne County. The vicinity of Lincoln Park began to take shape as the farmers' business district for the thriving farmland of the district. It took form as a community under a huge real estate boom ignited when Henry Ford announced his "Five Dollar Day." Immediately afterward a mul titude of workers were drawn to the area in search of housing. Lincoln Park was incorporated as a village in 1921, and four years later it became a city. In the 40 years since becoming a city, Lincoln Park has devel- oped as a residential community and regional retail trade center. Its homes are single and two-family type. The people who live in Lincoln Park are employed generally in nearby industrial com- munities at the Ford Rouge plant, the Great Lakes Steel plant · about... in Ecorse, and the various manufacturing plants in Detroit, Wyan- dotte, and Trenton. Recently Lincoln Park officials set in motion. programs of urban renewal in an effort to renovate some of the older sections of the city. Commercial development has kept a modern pace in Lincoln Park. Two regional shopping centers, opened in 1955 and 1956, have added sufficient retail business activity to make Lincoln Park today the shopping center of the downriver communities. In total economic activity, Lincoln Park is rivaled only by Detroit, Dear- born, Highland Park, and Livonia. Over 700 different businesses, services, industries, and other enterprises comprise Lincoln. Park's economic activity. 2 LINCOLN PARK CITY HALL 1355 Southfield Road Lincoln Park, Michigan 48146 Telephone 386-1800 @N LINCOLN PARK NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN GBE BELLEVILLE SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN ROCKWOOD TRENTON LINCOLN PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK :ll WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA La GROSSE ILE 00% RIVER ROUGE w 1 ECORSE DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK RA Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE I WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS 1 I 1 I I 1 MCK RICHMOND 2500 חר PROGRESS -DETROIT NE FORDLINE HELEN RIOPELLE CALVIN SCHULTZI MALVINA 3850 MARK ROSE BAILEY || || WAYNE MILE SCHULTZ MEYER 3200 DOU HELEN IRENE "HOOVER" WICH THAZEL 000 MCLAIN ☐☐☐☐0 -FRANK" NEW-YORK- HAZED! ST JOHNS- 1900 2000 AGNES LONGTIN GARFIELD 2599 2000 DIX 71801 PORTER CHAMPAIGN FROSE DETROIT HARTWICK CAPITOL THENRY ALLARD PORTERI STEWART GREGORY ·FORD' HORGER KING (RIVERBANK PAGEL SOUTHFIELD, C COOLIDGE PORTER MORAN TANFORD JKEPPEN EUCLID WHITE 49991 -11088 V- MYRON CREEN OLD OLEDO FLE BLANC FLONDON 11088V. Bathr ГАКНЕ BROUSERVILLE PROGRESS DETROIT MAYFLOWER CI CAPITOL -ABBOTT-- MC LAIN IBUCKINGHAM CLEVELAND HOWARD HOIN GARFIELO 1500 AL PER RUSSELL 1500 MICHIGAN BLVD.] "RANK" JUUUUUUM, [MONTIE MORRIS GODDARD RICHMOND [OLIVE FCHARTE DUPLEX LAFAYETTE MARK EMMONS 91100 RUTH PLAFAYETTE TREO COLLEGE ILAFAYETTE1 WINCHESTER ~ PORTER ROSE PROGRESS CHUBBARD -MILL HANOVER FFORT, PARK- MERRILL COUNCIL [NEW YORK PARIS LINCOLN PARK JU பப MI! TRAUPP LINCOLN 1250 FORT- CARLINGTON WARWICK பப DIXFORD FISHER FWY [HOWARD EUCLID ΓΙΑΝΝΕ ANNE M-39 CLEOPHUS PHILOMENE FORES 1250 FORT- DETROIT CLE BLANC. HAMILTON N I HAMILTON S. 1000 UNIVERSITY FERRIS MCKINLEY CHANDLER] [HANFORD] KEPPEN WINCHESTER MORRIS MAYFLOWER CAPITOL PAGEL "CHAMPAIGN ENMONST FFORD COLLEGE IL- LONDON FORT PARK]! ㅁ​ㅁㅇㄴ ​CLOVERLAWN HARRIS 4999 MORAN PARISI MERRILL 000 NOSTIM La PENNSYLVANIA JUL 1500 VICTORIA- 10000 UTER DR NEAN REO- FERRIS STEWART ST JOHNS LIBERTY LIH09J JOSEPHINE 02 1250 WILSON- KINGS HWY COUNCILS GORMAN CHARTER RIVERBANK 100 KAIERJ CHANDLERT AUSTINT [CLEOPHUS PARK ||||||| гCICQTTE < WASHINGTON) MARSHALL PINGREET HIGHLAND O WHITE ・FERRIS LIVE O'CONNOR 1119 سها GARFIELD MARION 3850 DE CO R/W, LINCOLN RUSSELL MONTIE WILSON 1000 NEW YORK RIVER CT CLEVELAND MILL FARNHAM ETHEL 0000 2000 لا SHORE 2400 TOOS WASHINGTON GRANT 500 APPLEWOOD1 101773. EMPIRE PINGREE RIVER DRIVE APPLEWOOD سال бо TLE JEUNE MADRID ECORSE P MAP COURTESY OF LAND SIZE POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over SCHOOLS managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) PUBLIC SAFETY 5.93 53,933 58,400 TRANSPORTATION 15.6% 19.5% 6.0% 7.2% 47.6% 4.1% 13.2% 12.8% 74.0% $8,000 HOUSING 1960 occupied dwelling units. 1966 occupied dwelling units. TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS 14,621 15,700 $ 126,653,611.00 51.30 3,366,000.00 acres 1,924 129 242 1,486 3,781 Penn Central Railroad 1-75 Freeway State Highways--M- 39, M-85 port (6.1 miles west)⚫ Bus service - Metropolitan Transit, Inc. COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (6.02 miles) Goddard, Outer Drive, Southfield and Toledo. 62 Police Officers, 36 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 5 Lynn Hospital, Outer Drive Hospital and the Downriver Child Guid - ance Clinic per cent 50.6 3.4 6.4 39.6 100.0 Lincoln Park School District 15 Elementary Schools, 1 Junior High School and 1 Senior High School Catholic and Lutheran Schools • Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Air- DETROIT EDISON COMPANY The City of LIVONIA is located in northwest Wayne County in a core of growth extending from the Detroit urbanized area into adjoining south central Oakland County. Its population increased from 17,534 in 1950 to approximately 101,000 in 1967. The city is endowed with a well-defined highway and road pattern. An in- dustrial corridor, combining a major railroad and a major highway provides direct and connecting transportation to all parts of the metropolitan region. This unique combination has accounted for al surge of industrial and commercial growth which has been with- out equal in other parts of the County. The growth rate in all phases of Livonia's development since 1950 has been most dra- matic. Between 1950 and 1966 the number of industrial plants rose from 22 to 131. In the same period, employment in industrial plants increased from 579 to 18,000. Livonia's beginnings date back to March 17, 1835, when it be- came the Township of Nankin and acquired its own identity as the Township of Livonia. Nankin and Pekin Townships were formed in 1829 from Bucklin Township, one of the original nine townships which made up Wayne County in 1827. The heavily forested wilderness originally attracted adventurers to the lucra- tive fur trapping enterprise in the area. The later discovery of rich soil which would produce abundant crops brought the pio- neers from New England and New York. Evidences of the pros- perous farms and orchards which they developed are still to be seen in many parts of Livonia today. The name Livonia comes from a remote province in western Russia. A law at the time prohibited the incorporation of any township having the same name as any post office then existing in the United States. Some of the other recently incorporated townships had already experienced rejections and delays in se- lecting names. It is surmised that the singularness of the name "Livonia" would not have found its duplicate in the nation at a time when post office and township name requests were being presented in numbers. The City of Livonia officially came into being on May 23, 1950, and comprised the entire Township. The city has a total area of about..... 35.86 square miles, geographically the third largest in Michigan Livonia is a planned city. When fully developed it is expected to accommodate 175,000 people with housing for all income levels. LIVONIA CITY HALL 33001 Five Mile Road Livonia, Michigan 48154 Telephone 421-2000 LIVONIA NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE GOELLE ย SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT SOUTHGATE WOODHAVEN ROCK ALLEN PARK BROWNSTOWN ROCKWOOD TRENTON MELVINDALE LINCOLN ECORSE PARK RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA RIVER ROUGE L GROSSE ILE DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission. 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE I WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS -EIGHT -"MILE I I I *. A 1 ECKLES-ning "PHILLIPS PAREHURST ELSIE HOWELL MALTA ROSS -DONALD LINDON had BASSETT PERRE GRENADA -PERTH Cral NEWBURGH PINET KINGSBURY- LAT MOS TOWN LANCASTER NUTCROFT NORMAN - Town. TREN PLYMOUTH LASTWOOD! 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MAP COURTESY OF P LAND SIZE POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate SCHOOLS under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) 35.86 TRANSPORTATION 66,702 101,000 A c 20.7% 18.9% 4.9% 5.5% 46.4% 3.6% 29.2% 7.9% 62.9% $10,250 HOUSING 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) PUBLIC SAFETY 102 Police Officers, 74 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 6 Ardmore Acres Hospital and St. Mary Hospital ● UTILITIES water, and sewer (selected areas). Electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS $485,236,366.00 55.36 94,437,000.00 acres 6,674 508 17,014 25,200 1,132 6,755 7,881 22,950 -- 2 School Districts 1. Clarenceville, 2. Livonia 32 Elementary Schools, 8 Junior High Schools and 3 Senior High Schools. Catholic and Lutheran Schools Schoolcraft College (a public junior college) per cent 29 2 5 30 34 100 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (7 miles south) Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad State Highway--M 14 service- Bee Line, D. S. R. (Detroit municipal coach system) and Northville Transportation Co. COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (52.33 miles) - Base Line, Eckles, Farmington, Five Mile, Haggerty, Hines Drive, Inkster, Joy, Seven Mile, Merriman, Middle Belt, Plymouth, Schoolcraft, Six Mile and Wayne Bus DETROIT EDISON COMPANY MELVINDALE is a residential industrial city with industries of the non-manufacturing type dominating the industrial land in use. The city lies in a corridor on the outskirts of Detroit's southern limits, flanked by two important interstate freeways, 1-75 and 1-94; and patterned with major through roads, Dix, Oak- wood, Allen Road, Outer Drive, Schaefer, Greenfield, and Fort, which extend to virtually any section of the Detroit Metropolitan area. Three railroads serve the city: Penn Central; Norfolk and Western; and Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroads. Originally formed in the 1920's from a small farm-residential area known as Oakwood Heights, it was designed by land de- velopers to provide homes for workers in the nearby Ford Rouge plant. The name "Melvindale" comes from one of the developers, Melvin Wilkinson. Melvindale was incorporated as a village in 1925. In 1932 it became incorporated as a city. Its greatest growth occurred in the 1940's, during and after World War II, when the commercial and industrial complex of Detroit overflowed to outlying com- munities. Melvindale's favorable location at the crossroads of the industrial corridor from Detroit to Chicago and Detroit to Toledo made it a natural site for the swift commercial and in- dustrial wave of growth in the decade 1940-1950. Today, limited amounts of vacant undeveloped land remain. Melvindale's "Plan For the Future," a master plan study adopted by the local government, provides the framework for effective rebuilding of old areas and future new development in the com- munity. about... With MELVINDALE CITY HALL 3100 Oakwood Boulevard Melvindale, Michigan 48122 Telephone 381-8430 . MELVINDALE ! 7 : NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEVILLE SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT SOUTHGATE WOODHAVEN ROCK ALLEN PARK BROWNSTOWN ROCKWOOD TRENTON LINCOLN PARK MELVINDALE RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK WYANDOTTE GIBRALTA GROSSE ILE RIVER ROUGE my. ECORSE DETROIT HAMTRAMCK RA HARPER WOODS Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS LAND SIZE HOUSING 1 I ן I $499 →D TATRR гGOUGHT [COLEMANI ROYCROFT 19699 HENRY 19100 000MJ [HANNA THARMANT ROBERT $100 FREED RUTH STANLEY [CORAL CLARENCE ROGER 4499 200 :: O T ELIZABETH MARTEL HARLOW DEARBORN 18500 ROS WALLY MAPLE ELIZABETH MOUSTRIAL CARYN- IMC KI FURGERSON KITRICK LENORE CAROL ALLEN- OAKWOOD BLVD. PALMER! 10017 GRACE 3700 BLANCHE EMILY PATRICIA CLARENCE MOGENE ***** this MAPLE 19341 MICHIGAN CONSOLIDATED GAS CO. 17000 MELWOOD RIVER GREENFIELD MEGINNITY "PARK" -PALMER [CORBIN BLOOMFIELD MARGARET, "NORMANT [DAVID] · WABASH MELVINDALE DOWNING FLINT RIALTO HOMESTEAD WABASH ALI [FISHER DIX RAILROAD TROSE NO003. FLEO 10t ROAD 2700 PENNA R. R. DORA 118000 MIANI KINCAID RAUPP CLARANN FLORA SCHAEFER FRANCIS WABASH RR SS3H. 17001 MAP COURTESY OF POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over SCHOOLS managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) PUBLIC SAFETY TRANSPORTATION 2.72 13,089 15,000 24 Police Officers, 15 Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 6 -- ·· 14.9% 16.7% 6.3% 9.1% 48.8% 4.2% 10.6% 14.0% 75.4% $8,430 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) UTILITIES water, sewer, electric power, natural gas and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE Melvindale School District 4 Elementary Schools, 1 Jun ior High School and 1 Senior High School. residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS 1-75 Freeway 3 Railroads 1. Detroit-Toledo & Ironton, 2. Norfolk & Western, 3. Penn Central ropolitan Wayne County Airport (7 miles west) Bus service Metropolitan Transit, Inc. -- COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (7.17 miles) -- Allen, Greenfield, Oakwood, Outer Drive, Raupp, Schaefer and Toledo $ 46,034,887.00 50.74 38,000.00 acres 566 75 390 323 387 1,741 1 Catholic School 3,731 4,240 per cent 34.0 4.3 22.0 18.0 21.7 100.0 Detroit Met- DETROIT EDISON COMPANY The City of NORTHVILLE, like the township of the same name, is distinguished by a rolling topography. Its name is derived from its location in the northwest region of Wayne County. Northville was incorporated as a village in 1867 and became a city in 1955. The first families who settled in the area, in 1824, were from New York State. Farming and lumbering were the main occupations in the early life of the community, but it shortly became a thriving. industrial town with more than a dozen small industries which developed from the early days to the 1920's. The earliest of these industries was the manufacturing of boots and shoes in pre-Civil War days. At one time, as many as 38 men were em- ployed in the making of boots and shoes and people came from many surrounding towns to buy the finished product. The com- mercial activity declined as labor-saving, mechanized production methods were developed in nearby industrial Detroit. Seven in- dustries remain in Northville today. The seven firms make pro- ducts for the automotive industry and employ about 450 workers. A race track, the Northville Downs Track, attracts thousands of people, who enjoy harness racing, to the city. The industries have not destroyed the rural appearance of the area. The City of Northville is still reminiscent of a peaceful early American town with many old homes, churches, and a com- pact shopping section set along quiet shaded streets. Many new custom homes were built in outlying sections of the city in the last decade, on large lots and in character with the natural scenic attributes of the region. A Master Plan Study undertaken by the Northville Planning Com- mission declares the area ideally suited to industrial develop- ment for scientific research, testing laboratories, research, and engineering facilities related to industry. about... NORTHVILLE CITY HALL 215 W. Main Street Northville, Michigan 48167 Telephone 349-1300 ** .NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE NORTHVILLE PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH CANTON VAN BUREN BELLEV LLEVILLE SUMPTER LIVONIA GARDEN CITY WESTLAND WAYNE ROMULUS HURON REDFORD DEARBORN HEIGHTS INKSTER TAYLOR DEARBORN FLAT ALLEN PARK SOUTHGATE ROCK BROWNSTOWN WOODHAVEN ROCKWOOD TRENTON LINCOLN COLN PARK RIVERVIEW HIGHLAND PARK GIBRALT MELVINDALE (:1 WYANDOTTE GROSSE ILE $ RIVER ROUGE WI ECORSE ni XHAM DETROIT HARPER WOODS HAMTRAMCK Wayne County Economic Development Commission 7th Floor City/County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226 GROSSE PTE WOODS GROSSE PTE SHORES GROSSE PTE FARMS GROSSE PTE GROSSE PTE PARK A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS 0 I 1 1 ו 1 800 ORCHARD Wylać ty SCOTT BELFORT GRANDVIEW 1: SPRINGSIDE RANDOLPH THAYER DUSUAR 200 L 100 100 LINDEN CT1 "EATON 500 ROGERS FIRST SEVEN MILE 600 RURAL HILL LINDEN 700 BASE LINE WALNUT ELM HIGH B EAST 200 CT1 201 TW SNIM IDUNLAP JL WING 100 コ​[ TLAKE GRACE CENTER RAYSON JL CHUTTON MAIN E CADY FAIRBROOK 400 EDW N HINES CARPENTER CHURCH- HORTON 40C BOUGE GRISWOLD 300 ΙΛΟΝΙ GNE PE CAN 00000 ELWELL LIT 113M13 HARRIS WILMOT VEL SAARKOM ** KOZMA BONN BONTEROE REED ·TRASKOS BOHN FENSTER SUMPTER CVICTORIA PAT'S TBIES SUMPTER - CRANDELL SUMPTER NO WA A DUNN MOTMOMIL TWP. 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WILLIS 00 30 CORRIDOR WAYNE SUMPTER SUMPTER STATION WE AR ARKONA HARRIS HAGGERTY wide, a HAGGERTY — HAGGERTY JUDD BAGGERT SUMPTER WILLOW ·OAKVILLE - WALTZ - Hans he wh CARLETON WEST ............ • Be a p = x* WILLIS the tighten the test it was held BROWNSTOWN MAP COURTESY OF LAND SIZE POPULATION AGE EMPLOYMENT INCOME square miles 1960 census 1967 estimate under 6 years 6 to 13 years 14 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 64 years 65 and over SCHOOLS managerial and professional laborers and service skilled and semi-skilled median family income (1966-67 estimate) PUBLIC SAFETY 37.46 TRANSPORTATION 5,972 7,100 -- 17.8% 20.4% 7.3% 7.5% 41.4% 5.6% 11.2% 18.5% 70.3% $7,550 HOUSING 1960 occupied dwelling units 1966 occupied dwelling units TAX INFORMATION state equalized property valuation (1967) tax rate per $1,000 (1967) average bonded indebtedness (12-31-66) 6 Police Officers (part time), Wayne County Sheriff Patrols, 21 Volunteer Fire Fighters; Fire Insurance Class 9 UTILITIES water, sewer and natural gas (selected areas). Electric power and telephone facilities throughout LAND USE residential commercial industrial public and quasi-public vacant and agricultural TOTALS 1,496 1,730 $14,549,207.00 37.10 4 School Districts 1. Airport Community (Monroe County Jurisdiction), 2. Huron, 3. Lincoln Consolidated (Washtenaw County Jurisdiction), 4. Van Buren Catholic Schools. per cent acres 767 3.2 120 0.5 240 1.0 3,668 15.3 80.0 19,179 23,974 100.0 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (6 miles northeast) Bus service -- Short Way Bus Line COUNTY PRIMARY ROADS (29.33 miles) -- Clark, Haggerty, Harris, Huron Valley Parkway, Judd, Martinsville, Oakville-Waltz, Savage, Sumpter, Wear, Willis and Willow DETROIT EDISON COMPANY 1 I I 1 0 „Šrants FEB 21 1975 DATE DUE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 3 9015 06568 0103 A ܫܘ ܚ d. £ PHILIP J, NEUDECK 22 WAYNE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION 726 CITY-COUNTY BUILDING, 2 WOODWARD AVE. DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48226 224-2047 --:: A FUNCTION OF THE BOARD OF WAYNE COUNTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS ܕ ܐ ܐ MICHAEL BERRY WILLIAM E. KREGER JAMES M. DAVEY, MANAGING DIRECTOR