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Belle Isle Park, known simply as Belle Isle (/ b ɛ l ˈ aɪ ə l /), is a 982-acre (1.534 sq mi; 397 ha) island park in Detroit, Michigan, developed in the late 19th century. It consists of Belle Isle , an island in the Detroit River , as well as several surrounding islets.
The Belle Isle Nature Center sits on a five-acre site surrounded by undisturbed forested wetlands on Belle Isle State Park in Detroit. The facility features indoor animal habitats, a bee exhibit, bird observation window, an outdoor native butterfly garden, outdoor classrooms, nature play area and the Blue Heron Lagoon Nature Trail.
In the winter of 1863-1864, Confederate prisoner camps such as Belle Isle and Libby Prison had become dangerously overcrowded due to the Confederacy's refusal to include captured black Union soldiers in the Dix–Hill Cartel exchanges of prisoners with the North. It was estimated that 1,500 Union soldiers were dying each month in Confederate ...
As Belle Isle moved from city control to a state park in February 2014, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources had its hands full. The City of Detroit had filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy the ...
Belle Isle hosted the Detroit Zoo from 1910 until it relocated to its current location in Royal Oak in 1956. The island facilities then converted to a children's zoo, later named Safariland with ...
One piece of Belle Isle’s problems is that many of its historic buildings date to the early 20 th century and now require millions in deferred maintenance. Chief among them: The historic Detroit ...
The Belle Isle Zoo (1895–2002) was a zoo located on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It opened in 1895 with a few deer and a bear . Control of the facility passed to the Detroit Zoo in 1941. [ 4 ]
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