Discuss the Northville Tunnels (WCCDC) here. i was reading on this site how everyone cut school and got high in this building, sounds like fun, anyhow is anyone doing anything fundermental with there life i mean did u guys get jobs.and if so who hired u. I REMEMBER BACKIN THE DAY GOING INTO THE MAIN BUILDING WITH MY FRIENDS ON COMACK ROAD THOSE WHERE THE DAYS. PAUL DIANNO, ON COMMACR RD, KFC? More than likely the tunnels were built to help employees of the church to walk back and forth between the temple and their offices. Rumor was, there was a tunnel from a local restaurant to her bordello that ran under Main Street. We want Northville area homeowners to know that we rank in the top 1% of all Velux installers in the nation so you can trust us to provide quality sun tunnel installation and sun tunnel replacement at the best price. 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. Our town was founded in 1639. They were very easy to work with and very accessible. The lady that cooked our food was nice too, don't remember her name. These were carved out over hundreds of years of mining. It is presented in 2 parts due to You Tube time limits. I just cant imagine how all these things happened! Northville Mayor Brian Turnbull was entertained by stories spun by his father Bruceof the elder Turnbull's daring trips through the tunnel. I don't remember any rats or bugsthen again, I was trying not to look down because whatever little vision you had ahead of you was well needed because there were huge pipes that you had to duck under and straddle over. McGlinch & Sons are ready to help you illuminate your home with superior sun tunnel installation. We had a rumpus room.. people generally laugh when I use that word but it's true. "You'll be able to see positive changes very, very quickly by the time they take out the tunnel," he revealed. Rumor also has it that there are more such tunnels in the Old Town area. Some good info! While I was there I participated in a work activity program that literally paid .45 an hour and was on Northville State hospital property. I was fortunate enough to live in cottage 2. 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. My brother stayed at my house last month, and this bill is 150.00. Then there was my assigned doc,doctor Utec i hope I'm spelling his name right he was amazing he put me in cottage 3 after only 3 months on the ward.I hope he's still alive but i doubt it he was a little older then in the late 70s. The workmanship was excellent, work was done on time, and we would definitely use them again. Contact reporter Ed Wright at eawright@hometownlife.com or 517-375-1113. I am one very satisfied customer and highly recommend McGlinch and Sons to anyone looking for a roofing contractor. The legendary Purple Gang ofJailhouse Rockfame would hole up in the only hotel in town, The Doherty. Don't remember last names but there was Rose,Dave,Roger,Jan and so on. WAYNE COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL AND NORTHVILLE TUNNELS VISIT OUR WEBSITES WWW.WACOTS.ORG AND WWW.NORTHVILLE-TUNNELS.COM ADMIN@WACOTS.ORG The former hospital had issues with trespassing in the years before it was torn down. This was keeping the house at 57 degrees, and if it wasnt freezing out. Later on, they cut power to the complex around late '77 after a fire at the then still-occupied medical staff residences in building 155, which was NOT connected by any tunnels. The tunnels of this section were given romantic sounding street names like Beehive Place and Bacchus Street. This section of the tunnels made the news 30 years ago when one collapsed, taking a double-decker no. Abandoned in 1974. 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. 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. Kids would break in when I was a teenager and hangout in them. I got to see some good brawls between staff and patients when they would resist the QR. Being where I lived though, I never knew Edgewood existed. Scott and Steve (and the whole crew) have really been diligent and have repeatedly exceeded my expectations on how the finished project is turning out. Keep your comments They installed a tunnel between the hotel and the pharmacy across the street. Should have people in it in 3 weeks. Boote explained projects similar to the covering of the Middle Rouge was commonplace in the United States in the first half of the 20th century when development of once rural land expanded at a furious pace. An eye-opening journey through the history, culture, and places of the culinary world. There was never anything evil about the property, that is just how my friends and i always referred to the woods. Who knows. The other, slightly more sinister, is this: in the 1980s the Faribault State Mental Institution was shut down, ostensibly due to lack of funding during the Reagan Administration. People need to read this information ! Had a key to the basement and then access to the tunnels. They were our own way in for years, we kept our own defective lock that you could open up with ANY key on the tunnel doors way off in the woods. we found a fire hydrant in the middle of a field and a large excavated area with a drain or pipe in the center of it. Locals and tourists alike know that bridge traffic during the summer months is no fun thing. Is Boote optimistic the river will be daylighted? Eric Long, The town I grew up in was one of the few places that had a healthy economy during the Great Depression due to the large stockyards off Concord Street. Seeing this made us travel on our way quickly and we NEVER took that shortcut again! The upper floor of the pharmacy was a speakeasy and brothel. One room was designated phone room to make and recurve phone calls. I was emptying a canteen out the backdoor of the building when she walked up on me. Jeff L. In my hometown there used to be a bunch of myths regarding Lucy Hicks Anderson, the Madam of Oxnard. She was a transgender woman from Kentucky that used to run a catering business and a speakeasy bordello before being sent to prison for accepting army spousal benefits as a transgender woman. That what Edgewood does it inspires you to dream. We want to hear your local stories about secret underground passagesreal or rumored. I learned to swim here and received a lifeguard license. 3rd floor houses all of our bedrooms. Alison Sexter, There is a network of largely forgotten chalk and flint mine tunnels under the city. Originally posted by getlucky151: This past sunday night, a bunch of my friends and I went to old Northville sanitarium hospital grounds, and went into the tunnels. that was like in 77' . As I got to know other local kids who had horses my territory expanded. Karsten Johansson, For years there were rumors about a tunnel, a railroad tunnel, a mile or so down that connected Los Alamos National Lab, where Americas first atomic bombs were built, to Sandia National Lab, some 90ish miles as the crow flies South in Albuquerque. Apparently, it was also used as part of an initiation for the new principals who were made to run through the pitch black tunnel before assuming their new post. Any buildings that survive it "will be clustered in a single 10-acre parcel," the township noted, "leaving 96% of the remaining property for use as an active recreation site.". Such as letting me know debris would fall through the attic space and be everywhere and my flower bed would be destroyed. At this years heat prices, it would have well averaged over 270.00 dollars. More:Hiking, biking trails to take shape at former psychiatric hospital site, As for the tunnels, township spokeswoman Rene Wisely said they"are, and will remain, inaccessible.". See. Follow NC-343 south to US-158 South to The Outer Banks. The ones that have been seen people have described them as comfortable, carpeted, well lit, and boring. Many people Michael Roberson, There are supposed to be disused mining tunnels running through the North Shore mountains. Article by SA Rogers, filed under The now reportedly unused storage facility was always of interest and I wondered what it would be like to walk the tunnels with a geiger counter, so did as I always did and was looking toward the tunnel entrances as I drove by. There was LOTS of sand but we burrowed through to find about three blocks worth. I've been all over and never saw that. 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. and it was a long ride to go up to Haggerty Rd. Your comment should have The buildings decrepitude was more advanced than I expected, and the spillway itself was in a crumbling state as well. I was a patient at Hawthorne Center and played in the woods. I really would like you to pass along my gratitude to them on the great job they are doing. Legend has it that Evanston had the choice to be the home of the state university or insane asylum, and for some unknown reason we picked the insane asylum. have heard "something about" them, but some of the "Edgewood Fans" were not sure they actually existed. We left because our hair would stand up from static from the on coming storm (lucky for us we did). Cottage 2 was all female. "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. Awesome Inc. theme. and are grounds for membership suspension, no questions asked. Can somebody who has an intimate knowledge of the tunnel system email me at fieldnotestoaninquiry@gmail.com. Northville lies between Wayne and Oakland County, with 5,970 residents just 29 miles north of Detroit and is referred to as the Switzerland of Wayne County. 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. Mental health workers, emergency managers and technocratic fixes can't heal an unjust society. I was 8. I had one friend who lived over on 7 mile rd. We spoke with about four companies for bids on our project (complete siding, shutters, gutters) and were very happy with our choice great company. All rights reserved. Whites, lead by Major Macomb, caught the young man and his father at Tonquish Creek, near Nankin Mills. I remember Dianno walking down Commack Rd. "It would be very, very difficult because of environmental regulations in place," he said. The tunnels beneath the Edgewood grounds have long been a topic of discussion. Amy Wagner, There is an old Masonic Temple (currently a school for hairstylists) that the Grateful Dead once played at that has a tunnel running from the basement to an adjacent building that is now a piercing studio. The site, at that time, had 20 buildings, including a water tower and a power plant. At that point it will be removing a lot of the infrastructure and demolishing what already here and moving a lot of dirt. The house on Winter Hill Road was owned by gangster Arthur Simon Flegenheimer AKA Dutch Schultz, and he used the passage as an escape route. 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. I always felt really bad for a lot of the residents on lockdown wards. After some liquid courage, the men and one woman, took turns with a sledge hammer, knocking a hole in the wall. We went camping cottage 3 at bishop lake in brighton. Hawthorn serves less than half the children it used to, and Northville State Hospital is closed. -JJ. "I'm very optimistic," he said. Thank you. for the rest, head over to Atlas Obscura. I also remember a few times when something crazy would happen at NSH and we would go into lockdown mode like the show OZ..I took classes in that greenhouse and learned about plant life. There were some interconnected basements for moving goods and sometimes for fleeing police raids on gambling houses, but nothing like the myth. The vast network of underground tunnels used for utility service. i never saw a straight jacket though and i was there for 1 full year. We had a part time Cook who made our meals fresh in the morning and prepped meals for lunch and dinner. Tamara, Not my hometown, but the nearest city to where my parents retired in lower central Michigan. "ARC, which we are assisting, was formed to help restoresome of what wasdone to harm the environment and it's promoting and teaching stewardship so we don't make the same mistakes over and over.". 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. i was scared shitless. The past four generations have established McGlinch & Sons as a trusted business that treats you like family and is built on integrity. Not sure what he did but was getting dragged off often. The fire department shut them down due to safety concerns and fire hazard. 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. The Northville Tunnels Project is an attempt to recreate the grounds in 3D using Half Life 2. "This structure predates environmental regulations in the United States. but no tunnels. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, 100 years in Business with 4 Generations of Experience, VELUX 5 Star Certified Skylights Installer, Michigans Largest 5 Star Certified Contractor, 94% Recommendation Rating by all our Velux Customers, Ranked Top 1% of all Velux Skylight Installers in the Nation. Ah, youth. Boote said once the river is daylighted it will start to rejuvenate itself immediately, although its getting back to 100% of its former self will take time. Once in you did not see light for at least a day or more. 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. Township voters approved the acquisition of the 300-plus acres around the property in 2009, at a cost of $23.5 million. Thanks. Someday,the only solution will be another planet;but there is no other planet(in this solar system and galaxy);to bad Venus isn't just like Earth was 10,000 years ago. "It won't be just a narrow river corridor. Everybody is in support of it. Theres also supposedly a tunnel between the city county building and the city library (where the jail use to be) to transport prisoners between them. There was LOTS of sand but we burrowed through to find about three blocks worth. 11: 255: Website. Long enclosures like this are known as fish passage barriers. ", More: Poole's Tavern plans rooftop seating in downtown Northville if city sells land for project, More: Pandemic hasn't stopped animals from multiplying at Northville's Maybury Farm. "That was probably in the late-'20s, early-'30s. The Hand Mansion was demolished years ago, but the Hand Trading Company still stands! I am not law enforcement. I also heard there used to be a bomb shelter under the bleachers of old Oxnard High School, but that it was filled with cement later. Tonquish then attacked Macomb with a knife, but was driven off by another white man. Claire, There are two bridges to get onto the Cape, the Sagamore Bridge and the Bourne Bridge. Ricardo Ferreira, Legend has it that there was a tunnel that ran under the street where I was raised. An account of the death of Tonquish was written by Melvin D. Osband in 1886, in the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collection. It's just a matter of making it happen. It wasnt long before someone came and picked him up. But Ive also heard that the tunnel was into a restaurant, the Golden Chicken Inn, which was rumored to be an opium den back in the day? The grade school was torn down when I was in 6th grade and my family and I went exploring as the progress was made. They installed a tunnel between the hotel and the pharmacy across the street. 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. It needs to be done to make it function properly.". 0% Financing Available. Macomb shot and killed him as he ran away. One kid i remember well was a black kid named joe, he visited the QR atleast 2 to 3 times a week. Rhonda G., Detroit, Working with both Ryan McGlinch and the roofing team (led by Ed) was a real pleasure. Although no white person was ever injured in these forays, the settlers became irritated and staged an attack on the Indians. "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. Could you imagine if the building was still standing what an great place for a horror film. 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