A note from from Mayor Brian Turnbull...


** NORTHVILLIANS,
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Hey, it’s already August! And it’s that time of the year when we are trying to enjoy the last weeks of summer, experiencing the greenspaces, waterscapes & topography of the Northville area.

In our community, we are fortunate to have city, county and our state parks to recreate in. This week, I am going to touch on a gem in our own back yard, Maybury State Park, and give you a little bit of its history.

Before progressing to Maybury’s past, let’s look at what’s going on in Northville today:

Events/Info
* Notables from last week’s Election results:
+ 64% cast absentee ballots, and the Library Millage passed locally.

* Dancing in the Ville – Town Square, Wednesday evenings 6:30-8:00 PM. Arthur Murray teachers provide lessons for a variety of dance genres (all levels).

* DDA & Northville Parks & Rec host “Tunes on Tuesdays,” 10:30am – 11:30am in Town Square. Bring the kids! The last Tuesday (8/16) summer gathering will be Earth Angels.

* Summer Concerts every Friday & Saturday at 7:00 PM – Downtown

* Farmers Market – Take in Northville’s Award-Winning Market, Thursdays (7/Sheldon)

* Mill Race Village – Enjoy the summer and get some Victorian history to boot. Stroll the Village on Sundays and peer in the open buildings where docents will answer your questions in August.

* Art Exhibit at Art House on Cady St. – Till August 20^th. See the City through artists’ eyes, with displays of 70 original oils, acrylics and watercolors by 27 Michigan artists…visit their art online, Link ([link removed])

* Music at Maybury on Mondays – 7:00 PM, enjoy these concerts…last one on August 26

* Food & Wine Festival @ Ford Field August 12-13. Check out link for details – Link ([link removed])

* Cars and Coffee Saturday, 8/13, 8-10 AM – Join our monthly gathering (2^nd Saturday) at 212 W. Cady Street, behind Old Village School next to the library. Bring a car/bring yourself.

Now let's take a look at the History of Maybury through time...
Maybury State Park today is a state park serving the Detroit metro area. It is truly an oasis of lush green forest, a place for visitors to connect with nature by experiencing its miles of trails.

The State acquired the land in 1971 from the City of Detroit. Before that, this site served the community for over 50 years as the Maybury Medical TB Sanatorium. Construction was started in 1917 and completed in 1919.

Maybury is close to 1000 acres of gently rolling terrain, open meadows and mature forest. The park offers a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities including extensive trails for walking and biking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, youth organizational camping, fishing and a working visitor farm.

Articles going back over 40 years in The Northville Record speak about how the Scouts (Girls Scouts & Boy Scouts) have used Maybury State Park for hiking & archery, running obstacle courses, educational learning events and overnight camping. In 2013, an article told of more than 250 Scouts descending on the park for a weekend campout. As a group, the Scouts have made many valuable contributions by enhancing the park through various on-site initiatives.

There is truly something for everyone on this 1000-acre trek. Notably, for those with walking disabilities, guided-assisted trail walks offer all-terrain motorized chairs, so all can explore its topography and stroll past the historical markers along the way.

DID YOU KNOW – Before becoming a park, the grounds encompassed eight farms, but later on became something quite remarkable. Construction began in 1919 for the Detroit Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, under the direction of deputy health commissioner William Maybury, of the Detroit Board of Health. The center opened in 1921 (over one hundred years ago). By the 1930’s, breakthroughs emerged in TB treatments which led to the later development of streptomycin and today’s modern era of treatment. As a result, the facility eventually shut its doors in 1969. TB medical centers like this one were almost like COVID facilities of today.

This Maybury site, for its 50 years as a TB facility, was a complex of 45 buildings on initially 944 acres that was a community in and of itself. It included buildings with porches for the patients, a powerhouse, a children’s unit, Doctors’ quarters, a nurses’ home, a school building, women’s dormitory, bakery, tinsmith & carpenter shop, a pasteurization plant for their dairy farm, along with an auditorium/chapel and a Fire department. It even had its own Library and published a Maybury Monthly magazine.

Total capacities, for those who want to know…

Up to 844 beds were available for the TB patients, and half of the 478 employees lived on the grounds.

EVERY YEAR:
* 5200 tons of coal were burned in the power plant
* 60 million gallons of water were used
* 1.2 million pieces of laundry were washed
* 11.7 tons of soap were purchased
* 1.5 miles of bed sheets were laundered
* 27 tons of butter were consumed
* 45 tons of flour were grown & ground onsite
* 6 tons of coffee were purchased
* 31 tons of sugar were used to sweeten the food

So, you can see through the years Maybury has meant many things to the community, starting with the original eight local Homestead farms, to the construction and 50-year operation of the TB medical campus, and eventually becoming the State Park as we know it today. I encourage you to slow down and experience all that Maybury has to offer before summer ends…walk, bike, horseback ride, catch a bluegill in the pond or just come on a Monday night for a free concert. All in our own backyard!

Keep that Northville Summer Faith!

Brian Turnbull
Mayor – Northville
[email protected] / 248.505.6849

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