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A te to B ck heritage of
Highland Part, conce t
p-eseDtation event, the high
point 0 Black History Month
for the city resident&. Held at
e t. Moriah Baptist
Ch ch, pastor j. Kirby, located
at 13100 Woodward Ave. at E.
Buena VISta. The program fea-
tured music, so and dance.
Program participants are
featured on this page in a photo
presentation by Fred Feris. .
1805. The early settlers were
English and so them Blacks,
Woodwardville later became
known as White ood, and
Whitewood was later incor
porated as the City of Highland
Park, Michigan ODApril4, 1918.
1860 - The Marks family
was Highland Park's first known
Black family. The family settled
in a hOD)e on Woodward be
tween Church and Candler
shortly after the Civil War.
1902 - Armster and Joseph
Harvard arrived d began to
buy HP property. These two
brothers later fonDed the first
Black business in Highland
Park. The firm called Har
vard Brothers and they per
formed cement work i a cellar.
1910 - ere w e 15 Black
residents living in Highland
Park. The families included the .
C tiD 17
The Black
hi oey ot
Highland Park:
1825 - W oodwardville,
(mown as Michigan's first sub
urb) was founded and named in
honor of, Judge Augustus B. I
Woodward The Judge pur
chued parcel of land outside
Detroit to house families em
placed by the Detroit fire of
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