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  2. Nancy Brown Peace Carillon - Wikipedia

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    In 1974, the Parks and Recreation Department voiced its hopes to replace the organ and amplifier with an 8-track system that would play recordings of carillon bells; at the same time, the Friends of Belle Isle endeavored to purchase and install real bells in the carillon, which would have cost approximately $100,000. [9]

  3. Belle Isle Park - Wikipedia

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    Belle Isle Park is the largest city-owned island park in the United States, and Belle Isle is the third largest island in the Detroit River, after Grosse Ile and Fighting Island. Belle Isle is the second most-visited state park in the U.S., after Niagara Falls State Park in New York [3]. It is connected to mainland Detroit by the MacArthur Bridge.

  4. Timeline of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Belle Isle Aquarium opens. 1907 Detroit auto show begins. Area of city: 41 square miles. 1909 - Ford Building constructed. 1911: Chevrolet opens its first factory in Detroit. This was significant in the birth of Detroit as the center of the American automobile industry, something that became huge in the city's economy and overall identity. 1912

  5. Historic Belle Isle police station could get new use in ...

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    The Detroit Community Sailing Center is floating the idea of moving into Belle Isle's historic police station, giving it life once again. ... cementing its vital pole during the technological ...

  6. For many Detroiters, decades of Belle Isle visits have become ...

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    The loss of those amenities and so much more from Belle Isle during the decades of Detroit’s decline set the stage for a state takeover in 2014. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has ...

  8. Belle Isle - Wikipedia

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    Belle Isle Park, in Detroit, Michigan; Belle Isle State Park (Virginia), along the Rappahannock River in Lancaster, Virginia; Belle Isle (Lancaster, Virginia), a historic plantation house surrounded by Belle Isle State Park; Belle Isle (Richmond, Virginia), an island and public city park in the James River

  9. Belle Isle State Park (Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    Belle Isle State Park is located in Lancaster County, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River. It sits between Deep Creek and Morattico Creek and is currently under public ownership. The park has an area of 892 acres (3.61 km 2) [1] and has facilities for camping, fishing, boating and picnics. As of 2015, the yearly visitation was 44,502. [4]