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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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