Palmer Woods was named after United States Senator Thomas W. Palmer. Landscape architect Ossian Cole Simonds designed the layout.
Palmer Woods was named after United States Senator Thomas W. Palmer. Landscape architect Ossian Cole Simonds designed the layout.
The Sherwood Forest neighborhood was named after Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England which was the setting for the Robin Hood tales.
University District was once the largest parcel of land in the Detroit Golf Club district, and became known by its current name when Father John McNichols relocated the University.
The district was named for John Bagley, late 19th Century entrepreneur, police commissioner and the 16th governor of Michigan.
Green Acres was built during the early days of Detroit’s auto boom in the early 1920’s through 1940’s, and remains an tight knit, and active community to this day.