Quote Originally Posted by Ray1936 View Post
Little feifdoms like Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Melvindale, etc, should not even exist.
Folks who used to live sold out farming plots and upcoming industrial sub-divisions of Ecorse TWP. Don't want to be absorbed by Detroit's fast growing annexation attempts. So those little suburban fiefdoms have to exist for cheap taxation and create their own munipalities. Most of the downriver suburbs don't even want to form a city of Ecorse from The Detroit River to Pelham Rd. Lincoln Park want to gets it hands of the southern portion of Ecorse TWP. So residents rushed to incorporate the City of Southgate. Allen Park got its hands of the northern piece of Ecorse TWP. just north of Outer Drive Rd. That would pervent either Dearborn and Melvindale for annexing that area.