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This Italianate house is on the oldest piece of European settled land in Monroe. The property was settled in as early as 1785 and had several incarnations and owners before the current house was built in 1873. The most famous resident of the property was Dr. Alfred Sawyer, who lived there from 1859 to 1870. In 1938, the house was given to the city.
Novi was organized as a township in 1832, on land taken from Farmington Township. The name Novi was offered by resident Dr. J. C. Emery, at the suggestion of his wife. Residents were reportedly looking for a shorter name than Farmington. [5] A local account has said that it was named after the sixth toll gate (No. VI) on the Grand River Road ...
After the battles, Frenchtown was gradually abandoned and the present-day city of Monroe developed from its downtown site 1.5 miles west and on the opposite bank of the River Raisin. The current park area encompasses some 40 acres (16 ha) of undeveloped land on Monroe's east side approximately one-quarter mile (0.4 km) west of Interstate 75 ...
Novi Township is a civil township of Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.At the 2020 census, the township had a population of 160. [3] Of the original 36-square-mile (93 km 2) survey township, only a small portion of 0.11 square miles (0.28 km 2) remains unincorporated from the surrounding city of Novi.
The district was listed as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1982. [1] This district comprises approximately 0.75 square miles (1.9 km 2), bordering the River Raisin on the south and North Monroe Street on the west. The district extends to the north to East Lorain Street and to the east to ...
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It was the first hospital in Southeast Michigan to open in 20 years. [1] The hospital was established due to population growth in western Oakland County. A previous branch campus of the main Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan, with 300,000 square feet (28,000 m 2) of space was to be expanded to 700,000 square feet (65,000 m 2). [2]
The row buildings along Monroe Street consist of small businesses on the ground level and apartments and offices on the second and third floors. [2] The outer areas of the Old Village include the city hall, post office, county courthouse and jail, various small businesses, Monroe Middle School , a food-packaging plant, and larger houses.