Community Spotlight: Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park is 85 years old. Going back to the late 1700s, what is now Lincoln Park was then a series of ribbon farms, long narrow tracts of land that typically began at the banks of the Detroit and Rouge Rivers and ran inland for miles. The farms were primarily French-owned, which explains many of the French-named streets in modern Lincoln Park. Leaping forward a century and a half, Lincoln Park, like many of the cities in the area, experienced explosive growth in housing and retail and commercial because of the rise of the automobile and manufacturing.
