Harper Woods

Harper Woods Drinking Water Report Info
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HARPER WOODS Harper Woods was consolidated as a city on February 19, 1951, when the occupants of Gratiot Township (est. 1895) cast a ballot to consolidate the whole zone of the Township of Harper Woods. A Charter Commission was chosen, a Charter arranged and embraced, and a City Council chose. The City of Harper Woods was "conceived" on Monday, October 29, 1951, when the Charter produced results and the primary City Council was confirmed. The primary new pilgrim in the piece of the Township which is currently Harper Woods was Casper Salter, who in 1859 took up a case on a wagon track at that point called Pumpkin Hook Road (presently Kelly Road) between our Woodland and Woodcrest Avenues. Different families pursued, and by 1875 there were eleven homes along Pumpkin Hook Road. Around then the fundamental North-South conduit was the street from Detroit to Fort Gratiot (presently Port Huron) which was initially cleared by the Moravians in 1782. In the 1830's it was known as the Gratiot Military Road, and in 1859 was changed over into a board toll street. When the new century rolled over, Gratiot was Main Street for the farm settlement on Pumpkin Hook Road, with a metal forger, a wagon creator, a general store, a cantina and the Westphalia Shooting Park. The people group developed gradually. By the mid-1930s there were still just around fifty homes in Gratiot Township. Be that as it may, recuperation from the Great Depression concurred with a push toward suburbia, and from 1935 on development was fast. The government statistics in 1940 gives the populace as 836. The Gratiot Township Directory of 1939-40 gives an image of the network: about a large portion of the breadwinners were utilized in industry, a quarter in retail or administration occupations, a great numerous in structure exchanges, a significant extent jobless and two resigned. The greater part of the houses was in two regions: close to the side of Vernier and Mt. Clemens (presently Harper Avenue) and between Kelly Road and Mt. Clemens Drive from Kingsville to Roscommon. A previous subdivision among Woodmont and Fleetwood on the two sides of Mt. Clemens Drive fizzled during the Depression years, and in 1940 Eastwood was the main road with houses on it from Roscommon north nearly to Vernier. With the 1940s came the incredible inundation of youthful families building homes. The way that most boulevards weren't cleared, many water mains weren't in (individuals had wells or conveyed water), and the land was liable to flooding didn't hose the energy of these cutting edge "pioneers." The township's populace was 9,148 out of 1950. After ten years the populace had taken off to 19,195. The youngster City of Harper Woods (renamed from Gratiot Township in 1951 from its being in an intensely lush region and from its principle lane, Harper Avenue, which was named for Walter Harper, originator of Harper Hospital in Detroit) had the standard issues of new urban areas: schools (Poupard opened in 1951), road clearing, water frameworks, channels, walkways, and so on. In 1955, Interstate 94 Expressway Route was affirmed, and development on Eastland Shopping Center started before long. Eastland opened in 1957 and in 1960 the Expressway was finished similar to Vernier. In 2001, Harper Woods praised its 50th commemoration. we have more than 14,000 occupants. Harper Woods is a glad, lively network..