Northville, Michigan Northville, Michigan City of Northville Location of Northville, Michigan Location of Northville, Michigan Northville is a town/city located in and divided by Oakland and Wayne counties in the U.S.
The populace was 5,970 at the 2010 census. Most of the town/city is in Oakland County and is surrounded by the town/city of Novi.
The Wayne County portion is surrounded by Northville Township.
Northville is served by Northville Public Schools.
The town/city is positioned 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Ann Arbor and 29 miles (47 km) northwest of Detroit.
Northville was first settled in 1825, was incorporated as a Village in 1867, and as a City in 1955.
It was originally one of two communities inside Plymouth Township, until Northville Township split off to form its own township in 1898.
The first territory patent in the Northville region was granted to Gideon Benton in 1823 where Cass Benton Park is presently located.
Many of these first pioneer were originally from New York State, but came from the nearby, already settled Plymouth improve to Northville.
Miller assembled the first foundry in Plymouth Township, which Northville was a part of for over 70 years, sometime between 1825 and 1828 where Mill Race Historical Village is now located.
Northville continued to expanded throughout the Victorian era.
Northville's Victorian tradition is jubilated every September in the Victorian Festival, which was recently rechristened the "Heritage Festival". The first schoolhouse in Northville opened in 1853 and was taught by Jacob Ramsdell.
Northville was incorporated as a village in 1867 from a portion of Plymouth Township. Henry Ford purchased a factory in Northville and moved machinery from plants in the region to the factory in 1919.
The theater eventually closed, but opened again in 1978 as the Marquis Theater and is now home to live children's theater. When Northville was more rural, skiing was prominent and tournaments were held often.
In 1944, Northville Downs opened as the first eveningtime harness racing track in Michigan.
Northville Downs has been in continuous operation since 1944, and is positioned at the corner of Center Street and 7 Mile Road. The town/city was incorporated in 1955 along the boundaries of the Village of Northville.
The Village of Northville encompassed portions of Novi Township in Oakland County and Northville Township in Wayne County.
Over the next a several years, the town/city boundaries period through annexation of portions of Novi Township and the Village of Novi both east and west of the town/city and north of Baseline Road.
The city's northern boundary was fixed by the incorporation of the Village of Novi into the City of Novi in 1969.
The town/city has also took in small portions of Northville Township, the most recent of which was an expansion of the Rural Hill Cemetery.
Northville Township's status as a Charter Township generally precludes the City from annexing any momentous portion of the Township.
The library was positioned in the former Young Men's Hall until 1964, when it moved to the then-new City Hall temporarily. In 1975, the library moved again temporarily to the Northville Square Mall before moving back to City Hall in 1980.
In 1996, the brand new Northville District Library opened. Downtown Northville Downtown Northville The New School Church, formerly the Northville District Library, which is still operating as a church A Victorian-style gazebo assembled in 1979 by Northville High School students Victorian Festival (renamed '"Heritage Festival"' in 2016) - September - Large event with games, magic shows, music, rides, and art in Downtown Northville where booth operators and parade participants wear traditional Victorian outfits to jubilate the city's heritage, since 1989 Northville Christmas Parade - Held on a Friday evening in November every year According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.07 square miles (5.36 km2), of which 2.05 square miles (5.31 km2) is territory and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2) is water. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 93.7% White, 1.6% African American, 0.1% Native American, 2.6% Asian, 0.6% from other competitions, and 1.4% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,596 homeholds of which 27.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 53.8% were married couples living together, 7.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.1% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 36.7% were non-families.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 96.11% White, 0.39% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.86% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.59% from other competitions, and 0.77% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.8% under the age of 18, 4.7% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 29.2% from 45 to 64, and 12.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Mike Henneman - MLB- lived in Northville while he was pitcher for the Detroit Tigers in the late 1980s and early 1990s Nick Lidstrom - NHL player, lived in Northville while playing for the Red Wings Jennifer Granholm, Governor of Michigan, lived in Northville before to being propel and moving to Lansing. "Charter, City of Northville, Michigan (MI)".
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Northville, Michigan "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Northville city, Michigan".
Northville, Michigan, Arcadia Publishing, 2001.
"Website - Northville Grub Crawl".
2005-2007 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates, United States Enumeration Bureau Wikimedia Commons has media related to Northville, Michigan.
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