I WANT EDGEWOOD CEREAL!!!! They're goodforhumansproviding peoplewith certain functions and benefits as a societybut we're finally starting to realize we have the opportunity to go back and fix some of those problems. John. She told me that it was constructed as an underground means of escape from one building to the other in the event of an emergency. Discuss the Northville Tunnels (WCCDC) here. McGlinch and Sons price quote was reasonable, and right in the ball park of what I expected to pay. Not sure what he did but was getting dragged off often. In 2007 we were asked by the Northville Township Historical Society to give a presentation of the history of the school. Here are a couple of those stories for the rest, head over to Atlas Obscura. Some are confirmed, and others are just rumors, but its fascinating to read about what might be lurking just outside our view. I was there from 1971-1974. Chris, McGlinch and Sons Company and their representatives are very personable, un-assuming, and were very respectful to me and my family. See. Entrances lead to almost every single building, and one could spend days down there without retracing your steps or seeing another person. "For reasons including, but not limited to, historically low interest rates and continually rising costs of demolition, this is an opportune time to proceed with this project, which has been identified as a priority by our residents," Rhines said in a statement. "The city asked the developer, Hunter Pasteur, to daylight the river as part of its development plans, and they agreed," said Nancy Darga, a former member of the Northville City Council and a longtime environment advocateand member of the Alliance of Rouge Communities. Catherine Houston, There is a tunnel between the Graylyn Estate and the Reynolds Estate (founder of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco) built as an escape route from angry depression-era local workers. Cottage 3 was all boys. Boote said covering a river like the Middle Rouge wouldn't happen today. have heard "something about" them, but some of the "Edgewood Fans" were not sure they actually existed. I was always told that those loyal to him buried his victims in a secret tunnel near the hospital, said to be a forgotten branch of the cheese caves. People would park their cars in the lot, and board the trolley for a ride underground to the store. Ive called a couple times; they still havent picked it up. I learned how to play basketball in the little gym and the big gym. The whole complex was a sanctuary for children sickened by the demonic forces in our society (poverty, racism, violence, sexual assault, social disorganization, neglect, and tribalism). It's just a matter of making it happen. And L2 is getting remodeled. The guys were very professional, friendly, and did an excellent job. Anthony Machado. Carl Abbott, The Lizard People stored water and treasure in tunnels under Downtown L.A. Eric Dugdale, Old people used to tell that beneath the La Merced Temple (Mercedarian) and Guatemala Citys Catholic Cathedral there were several interconnecting tunnels, excavated to protect nuns and priests from a hostile, anti-clerical government. I grew up off of Six Mile directly south of the hospital grounds and ventured around as far as I safely could as it was active during my time in Northville. Locals and tourists alike know that bridge traffic during the summer months is no fun thing. Hello,I'm Joe;Joe B.I use to work at Grumman,Entenmanns,SUNY state colleges,now I'm a bus driver soon to be in a hospital as a full time worker.I'm in the Huntington area.All the time Edgewood hospital was standing,I never went there;only once me and this girl went there,but were told we couldn't stay by security people who must've been guarding the place after all the vandalism over the years. Unforseen damages have been fixed immediately. We used to taunt the security guards by yelling down at thier cars from that roof. Kathy, Livonia, Good morning Ryan, I am here in sunny Texas working on another Wind Farm. Northville Township said it will repay the bonds "with revenue collected by a Brownfield Tax Increment Financing district," and that no money from the general fund will be used. When I was young, some friends and I had been in the mouth of this last one, but didnt progress very deep into it. The fire department shut them down due to safety concerns and fire hazard. A Shanghai Tunnel tour is a popular tourist attraction, but historians have a technical term for this idea: bullshit. We left because our hair would stand up from static from the on coming storm (lucky for us we did). Use the "3 bar"icon in the upper left to open the menu. According to the. Just to hear what all these people are doing with their lives today? Northville Township The site of a former state psychiatric hospital in Northville Township will be cleared and redeveloped as an "active recreation site,"after township trusteesapproved a $12 million bond sale to fund the work, the township announced Tuesday. The rumors are that more extreme cases were kept in isolation cells down there. Millions went through South Saint Paul each day, and since St. Paul was a haven for gangsters laying low, there was plenty of contraband to hide. This was keeping the house at 57 degrees, and if it wasnt freezing out. "That was probably in the late-'20s, early-'30s. There was a power source building that ran off coal. Heh, Paul Di'Anno walking down Commack Rd? Moderators: Red, Syd. I hope u are all in a better place and enjoying your life. After making our way through the tunnel, and out into the open air, we had to RUN into the main building because security was there and there was no way they were going in the building.once we were inside we were safe. The Potawatomis saw the settlement of the area by whites as in intrusion on their traditional ways of life, and resorted to petty thieving to demonstrate their disapproval. At this years heat prices, it would have well averaged over 270.00 dollars. Anyway, I, along w/ my 2 girlfriends (C.B. "It would be very, very difficult because of environmental regulations in place," he said. Eventually the campus masturbator got too cocky and was apprehended when he tried a mid-afternoon attack. Though residents of Whitmore Lake were opposed to their community being the site of a delinquent boys' facility, Maxey said there are too many institutions in Northville already. It ended up in Whitmore Lake, and was later named the Maxey Training School. Article by SA Rogers, filed under A planned development of the Northville Downs property includes "daylighting" the waterway and complementing it with a riverwalk. Paul Warshauer, There are steam tunnels under the University of Illinois campus that connect many of the buildings that were once used for heating. I always felt really bad for a lot of the residents on lockdown wards. They installed a tunnel between the hotel and the pharmacy across the street. J. J. DeBenedictis, When I was going to Sequoia High School, the former principal once told me about a tunnel that supposedly exists under the school. WE FOUND 2 ACESS POINTS BUT NEITHER WENT ANY WHERE BUT DOWN THEY LOOK LIKE THEY'VE BEEN FILLED IN PARTIALLY. I was on a lockdown unit K2-A 2nd floor that faced haggerty and schoolcraft. Follow NC-343 south to US-158 South to The Outer Banks. "You'll be able to see positive changes very, very quickly by the time they take out the tunnel," he revealed. One room was designated phone room to make and recurve phone calls. "My dad and one of his buddies would fasten flashlights to the front of their canoes and paddle through the tunnel as a challenge," Turnbull recalled. I was a patient in 84 on unit K2-A.who remembers these names, staff member Arch tapallion with the fu-manchu moustache, pickle the art teacher, norm autin the school teacher, genie the librarian, dr paisley, dr john horvath, nurse carol tovis, bernard the ward supervisor, staff member mike brown..we all had a crush on a girl on K1..gina spurling..we would all sit in the window and watch her play tetherball and droolbig pool, little poolpatient sidney bright that lived in the sick bay and when we went to kensington park he drown and diedso sad..the following patients- paul czyika, stuart feltz, danny persall, brian dourghty, kelly mccoy, deaf craig, paul "bam bam battleship' bagozzi who had a head trauma from a hockey game, richard "pepper" due, cory burrell, tim king, william perdue, sam centers, deaf miles, the list is endlesswho remembers state shopping? Once daylighted, Turnbull and his buddies will be able to canoe up and down the river just like his dad did a century earlier. Both are very knowledgeable, and everyone (including the contractor who later replaced the gutters) was courteous and professional. Being where I lived though, I never knew Edgewood existed. Fun. We were convinced the tunnel had not been used since the 1940s and our guess was confirmed, quietly, by city officials and told to seal the entrance. They also had to replace a gutter, this took an addition 10 days to put up and they left the old gutter in my backyard. Is it real? I was 11 the first summer we moved there and my parents bought me my first horse. Activities incluede horse riding (use 8 mile entrance), biking and numerous walking trails. We viewed egrets, cranes, deer and other animals along the way. His prime choice was west of Northville at Whitmore Lake, but a site between Hawthorn Center and Northville State Hospital was also seriously consideredin other words, in the "Evil Woods." Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. The lady that cooked our food was nice too, don't remember her name. Tamara, Not my hometown, but the nearest city to where my parents retired in lower central Michigan. I too was a patient but I should have never been there. We learned to serve the public, prepare food and host hospital personel. Trespasser Photography Aaron R Adatskas Archer Bolgod Carrick i watched as staff would pin people down and strip them and toss em in. One day there was a small sinkhole that developed in the sidewalk in front of my aunts house. Armed with flashlights, we found tunnels tall enough to comfortably walk, two by two; dark, smelly and dangerous because we felt not enough air could get to us, we were cautious. Produced by Dan Weisburd, the U.S. It's a lot like dams, which cause the same situation for fish. The buildings that are now the high school and the gym were built during the Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal era. I spent many days and night in the tunnels at Northville Michigan. Rehabilitation Services Administration, narrated by Lorne Greene, and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. After some liquid courage, the men and one woman, took turns with a sledge hammer, knocking a hole in the wall. In some cases, your tales of secret spaces were based on something real from history, and a few are even accessible today. Cassandra Konz, It seems the old city of Girona has several tunnels connecting the two main churches of Sant Feliu and the Cathedral, and with a large underground passage out of the city to a place called El Polvor (The Gun Powder Depot). The main park entrance is on Eight Mile Road but there is another entrance along Beck Road that I recommend. We never found any tunnels but we did get a bunch of cool bricks and concrete work. After another 30 minutes, it soon became evident that the only logical place the pipes could run to is, Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital (NRPH), The Detroit Preservation Movement's Gettysburg, The "Lost" Neighborhood of Detroit (Part 2), The "Lost" Neighborhood of Detroit (Part 1). I went to school on campus in the main hospital which is locked down. As many cities in the Midwest, the city produced electricity and as a byproduct, sold steam to downtown buildings. There are 2 main entrances - one off of Beck Rd and the other off of 8 mile. Rumor is Ted Bundy was the last prisoner to walk the tunnel. Even found some old Northville Dairy bottles back there in the early 70's. That incident ended the Indian resistance in these parts. but i never left. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ah, youth. The tunnels are realthe first time I went to edgewood was in September of 1985 - Hurricane Gloria caused a power outtage and there was no school - it was the first week of 9th grade at Frost. I didn't like being away from home but made the best of it. Upon searching the house he was renting, police discovered a key to the campus subterranean system of heating tunnels that could be accessed from many of the university buildings, leading investigators to reason this was the key to his elusive disappearing act that had frustrated the community for so long. The Northville Tunnels forum slowly faded away and fell out of favor. An account of the death of Tonquish was written by Melvin D. Osband in 1886, in the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collection. We had a greenhouse just shy of that. Claire, Top image via Keary O./Flickr Creative Commons. "Certain things we do aren't good for the environment. Shannon, There is an old story that there are tunnels under the Cabbagetown/Corktown areas of Toronto. McGlinch & Sons is a family-owned and operated business with over 100 years of experience in exterior home improvement in southeast Michigan. Seeing this made us travel on our way quickly and we NEVER took that shortcut again! and D.C. who had already been there before) met up with the "guys" (our guy pals they practically lived there) at 7-11, grabbed a couple of boxes of matches w/ off the counter and off we went. I have been to Edgewood more then anyone, I am 65 years old, I went 50 years ago. We would go up the stairways to the roof elevator room and walk across a plank that was across the top of the elevator shaft, Then we climbed a ladder to the highest roof. 3 miles of underground steam tunnels and 45 buildings to run around in. Mostly, it's probably just fungi and bacteria. Northville was where Detroit placed all of its institutional facilities for almost a century. Can somebody who has an intimate knowledge of the tunnel system email me at fieldnotestoaninquiry@gmail.com. WAYNE COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL AND NORTHVILLE TUNNELS VISIT OUR WEBSITES WWW.WACOTS.ORG AND WWW.NORTHVILLE-TUNNELS.COM ADMIN@WACOTS.ORG There was only one steam tunnel for Hawthorn, with pipe trenches connecting it to the cottages. Tonquish then attacked Macomb with a knife, but was driven off by another white man. This went on for months causing the campus and city police considerable embarrassment due to their inability to get a handle on the increasingly brazen criminal. Tunnels that went underneath the northville psychiatric hospital and connected to out buildings. If they just had told me I could have covered up clothes in my attic and moved a few of my plants. Please let them know. As a group of urban explorers from Chicago visited me, we searched the basement and found a strange cinder block wall that did not seem right. The grade school was torn down when I was in 6th grade and my family and I went exploring as the progress was made. He was staying at the Deer Park Motor Inn while doing a Battle Zone show at Sundance. im in !! They took us roller skating every other friday. The ground floor was bricked up so we climbed to the second floor windows and went in. Cottage one was the auto shop, which was part of the school program. They shut down in the 80s, I believe, but were bought out by someone else, who continued using the trolley cars until they closed and then the trolley cars were parked and the tunnel was closed off. This is how the terms, "Northville Tunnels" "Sheldon Tunnels" or simply "The Tunnels" became the source of more than two decades of urban legond and teenage right of passage. 1928-1932; Press Photos 1930-1982; Historic Photos . Enhance the beauty and quality of your home with sun tunnels natural light. McGlinch & Sons can help you start enjoying the benefits of sun tunnels in no time. 26 bus down with it! Still others seem to be more fiction that fact, unless lizard people really are hiding treasure under the streets of Los Angeles. Tonquish (Tonguish, Toga) was chief of the Native American tribe that lived in the "Toguish's Village" located near the River Rouge. Once my meeting was finished, i drove past the same area, and clear as day, in the middle of a field with no train tracks sat a railroad boxcar. Many cities around the world have local legends about hidden tunnels running underneath the streets. We can also bring funding into the process. Those doors were not locked. to get to 7 mile to her house, anyway one day she had to be home at a certain time and we didnt have enough time to get there so we decided to cut back through the block to take a shortcut. I too remember those out buildings and they were creepy to say the least and at night outside of our window we could hear strange noises and one night we saw shadows outside our window. They were very easy to work with and very accessible. They can only try to clean up the mess. Fucking funny I don't remember that but was at that show in 86! I am glad I went with your family owned company, and not some corporation. Lots of wildlife dot the landscape. the last 4th of July before the crown burned, we blew out a security car headlight from the roof with M80's. A magnificent building, it had secret rooms befitting a Masonic building. A convenient, accessible bicycle/pedestrian entrance was developed in 2015 at the northeast corner of the park that connects to the regional Link trail. I was visiting a facility in the Southern end of the facility, South of where warheads had historically been stored. ?,, yeah cause the cement filled tunnels are the only gigs they can get these days. Powered by. There is an urban legend that a crocodile fled from a circus and lived for many years in this tunnel. The Snells were a prominent family in town and made significant financial contributions to the school from what I remember. The Northville Tunnels, which connected buildings on the site, have long been a popular site for explorers. They would get off the trolley car and go into the multi level store, where you could buy almost anything you needed. Something funny happened one day as Otis J. Grinsomore and and I were at the tunnels one sunny afternoon in 1986. But locals know about the super secret (but not really so secret anymore because its on bumper stickers all over the place) Cape Cod Tunnelthe hidden route to get on and off the Cape without all the traffic. (but i will save stories of the building for another post). ! Ryan, Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know how impressed I am by your crew, their work ethic and attention to detail. It truly was a very sad and inhumane hospital. 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