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Steve203 wrote:
<i>...my grandmother owned much of the land around Belleville, Michigan.</i>
Her name wasn't Palmer was it? I have heard that a family named Palmer was a major land owner around here.
I live in Canton, which is the township just north of Belleville, and retired after working for a company in Belleville, near the intersection of Ecorse and Haggerty.
The aircraft museum at Willow Run, whose hanger on the east side of the airport burned to the ground several years ago, has had a fund raising drive and is working up the purchase agreement for the hanger at the east end of the bomber plant for their new home. The rest of the plant is being torn down as GM abandoned it in 2010.
Hello,
No, it wasn't Palmer. But I vividly recall all of the trips we had to make to Belleville in the 1950s and it was quite a jaunt. I believe my grandmother knew some people named Palmer in the area, however.
RE: Canton... Yes, I know exactly where it is and I have a cousin who lives there in a house he had built...also retired.
RE: Willow Run... It was so far away from Detroit that when there were airplanes landing there and the talk was of making it into a new civilian airport, people could not wrap their minds around going that far away for a plane. The ground gap between Detroit City Airport over on the east side of Detroit and Willow Run in those days was considered gigantic. Thus evolved Detroit Metropolitan Airport which was much closer in, but still considered out in the sticks for those times.
I am told that the Packard company plane was kept for a time at Willow Run, but I know it was also at Detroit City Airport for a long time.
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