Bourassa, LeBlanc, Leduc and Labadie,” were among the first inhabitants and the original settlers of Ecorse. The city has most of its streets name after them.
Lincoln Park.
Boynton is in the southernmost of the two neighborhoods, stretching from Outer Drive and Interstate 75, exit 42 southeast along Outer Drive until you reach Bassett Street, which takes you into the city of Ecorse. The zip code 48217 makes up the entirety of these two neighborhoods.
Next to them is the city of “Melvindale,” which began as the unincorporated settlement of Oakwood Heights, a small farm residential area in the northwestern part of Ecorse Township in the early 1920s.
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West Jefferson in 1924 Ecorse, Michigan (standing near the post office)
My mother’s family where pioneers to this city and they have a street named after them called, “Bourassa” Street,” which runs east and west, crossing over “High Street.” The nearby Southfield Road back then was called “State Street.”
Next to Ecorse is the city of “River Rouge” where I grew up as a kid. This city was going to be called “Anchorville,” but they agreed on the name “River Rouge” instead. It was settled in 1808, but by 1899, River Rouge officially incorporated as a village. River Rouge then changed from a village to a city years later on April 3, 1922. The road next to the police department call Schaefer/ Coolidge Highways was once called “Dearborn Road.”
Near the city of River Rouge are “Boynton and Oakwood Heights,” which occupy the southernmost 2.80 square miles of the city of Detroit. It’s the only area in the Detroit city limits that fall south of the “River” Rouge. It extends as far down as Outer Drive on the border of
The subdivision of Melvindale was designed to house workers from the nearby “Ford River Rouge Plant” in the city of Dearborn. The city was named after one of the original developers of the settlement, “Melvin Wilkinson.” The eastern part of “Oakwood Heights” was annexed by the city of Detroit in 1922, and the remainder was incorporated as the village of Melvindale in 1924. In 1933, the village of Melvindale was incorporated as a city.
Next to Melvindale is the city of “Allen Park,” which is a residential suburb of Detroit located in Wayne County, ten
Fort Street looking North in Lincoln Park, Michigan in 1924