It didn't take me long to suspect that this wasn't always so-and as it turns out, the cannon might actually be a clue to the puzzle. It's basically a huge wilderness refuge that was somehow spared from the inexorable development sprawl of Detroit-and a rather unexpected stroke of charity and foresight on the part of city planners.Īt Spinoza Drive & Sawyer Street (just north of Warren) there is a weird little triangular traffic island off to the side, with this cannon sitting in the middle of it, and just past it Spinoza suddenly dead-ends in a grassy field. Today it covers a total of 1,184 acres, making it one of the biggest municipal parks that probably exists in the world-bigger even than Belle Isle, and New York's Central Park. Rouge Park started in the 1920s when the City of Detroit was on an annexation binge, and bought up land from six farmers at the western edge of the city. ![]() ![]() Special thanks to my friend Andrea of Telling the Stories of Detroit's Parks for her indispensable research help on this post.
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