Originally Posted by
MikeM
From a 2004 thread about the cemetery:
From "A Directory of Cemeteries in Wayne County, Michigan" by Pamela L. Lazar, published by the Dearborn Genealogical Society, year unknown.
"Grosse Pointe Cemetry [[also known as City Cemetery in Grosse Pointe Township) Situated at the northwest corner of Gunston and Hein, the remains of some 4500 persons were removed from the Russell Street Cemetery [[Detroit) and reinterred here between 1880 and 1882. By about 1925, this cemetery was forgotten and was not rediscovered until the 1950s when construction on sewers and freeways unearthed remains.