When did GLEW go from Ecorse to Rouge?
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Originally Posted by
1KielsonDrive
Here's the article resulting from my suggestion to Kim Heron at the Metro Times last year for inclusion in MT's, 'Best of ' issue. I also suggested the title. As usual, they got the location wrong. They said Ecorse, but it's River Rouge. That's after I emphasized Rouge to them. In MT's defense, they're not the only ones to get it wrong.
Part of the reason they probably got it wrong is the fact that when GLEW was built, the land the shipyard was on was in Ecorse. Later, I believe in the 1920s, the land became part of River Rouge and the name of the yard was changed from the Ecorse Yard to the River Rouge yard. I don't know why this land exchange happened between Ecorse and Rouge, but I'd love to know. So any boat built there until around 1925 or so was technically built in Ecorse.