Tag: Neighborhoods

  • Cooling Off

    NORTHVILLIANS, Happy Summer! It was great to see many of you in town this past weekend … it was hopping with the fantastic weather we had. I counted 7 businesses supporting live music. It was quite an atmosphere. It doesn’t get much better than enjoying music and fellowship in the Ville, as folks strolled around…

  • Summer

    NORTHVILLIANS, The school year in “The Ville” has come to a close and the Summer Solstice is upon us (longest day of the year). With the warmth of the season, it is all about swimming, recreating, enjoying the festivals, listening to music and joining in activities in town. We started off last weekend with fantastic…

  • Rivers

    NORTHVILLIANS, Many of you know how important our Rivers have been to the development of our community. During the early 1800’s, the first Grist Mills in the Michigan Territory were centered here because of the multiple rivers coming together from 4 counties, establishing Northville as an actual headwaters area of southeastern Michigan. In the Detroit…

  • Cooling Off

    NORTHVILLIANS, Over the past few weeks, we’ve touched on activities around our Bennett Arboretum (oldest in Michigan) and wrote about Henry Ford’s Hydro-electric “Village Industry” plants on our waterways. Northville grew to be the number two economic power in the state behind Detroit during the late 1800’s & early 1900’s because of industrialists like Ford,…