Support local history by purchasing the new Lincoln Park Historical Museum T-shirts or sweatshirts. Original design created by award-winning illustrator Bill Morrison, Lincoln Park native son. The shirts are available at the museum gift shop or by mail order online.

The new “Lincoln Park Heritage Plaza” paver project, to be located on the museum lawn, will be dedicated on Saturday, May 16, 2015 with the first phase of brick pavers. The Heritage Project is seen as a concrete way to recognize those in our community, past and present, whom we individually choose to remember and honor, whether they be family, business, military, or civic and community leaders. Heritage Plaza is being inaugurated this year to coincide with the city’s 90th anniversary and the Historical Society’s 60th anniversary.

Beginning in 1921, the year Lincoln Park incorporated, efforts were underway to acquire a branch post office of the Detroit Post Office for the new village. It took several years before a store front location was opened at 1471 Fort Street to accommodate the increasing population of the fast-growing village. Prior to this, mail was delivered out of the Wyandotte Post Office (for south village residents) or Dearborn Post Office (north residents).

The short-lived Suburban Motor Car Company (1911-1913) is today just a footnote in the long saga of automotive history, yet it became part of a fascinating chapter of that history that would include such disparate elements as the Seven Little Buffaloes, a mayor of Bad Axe, the Ecorse River, a noted landscape architect and a model village, the Lincoln Park Subdivisions, and the Checker Cab Company.

Clinton Knoch, one of Lincoln Park’s pioneer businessmen, moved his young family to Lincoln Park in 1922 and began work as a landscaper in the fast-growing new town. He was the second son of Gus Knoch, who owned a flower shop and greenhouse in the Fort-Woodmere area of southwest Detroit. In 1929, Clinton opened his first flower shop in a store front at 1415 Fort Street.

The Park Theater, built by early Lincoln Park realtor M. R. Levy, and designed by famed Detroit architect C. Howard Crane, opened at 1585 Fort Street on August 15, 1925. According to that week’s Lincoln Park News, the very first showing was the silent movie, “I’ll Show You the Town”, starring Reginald Denny. The management announced that shipment of the new theater organ was delayed by ten days and a local orchestra would be hired to play for the opening week.