French Landing Dam and Powerhouse

French Landing Dam and Powerhouse is a Michigan historical marker in Belleville, Wayne County, dedicated 1983.

12100 Haggerty Rd., Belleville

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In 1910 the Eastern Michigan Edison Company, now the Detroit Edison Company, purchased most of the Van Buren Township land along the Huron River for a hydroelectric plant. The French Landing powerhouse and dam were completed in 1924-25. The dam, the largest and last in a series of five constructed on the Huron River, created Belleville Lake, with its miles of beautiful residential and recreational lakefront lots. The dam generated up to 12.7 million kilowatt hours of electricity until it was decommissioned in 1962. It was eventually donated to the township. In 1981 Van Buren Township began a $5 million project to restore the dam and powerhouse.

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1873 · (Map of Wayne County, Michigan) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1906 · Romulus, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1928 · Romulus, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1936 · Belleville, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

(Map of Wayne County, Michigan), 1873, covering the location of French Landing Dam and Powerhouse, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — (Map of Wayne County, Michigan), 1873, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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French Landing Dam and Powerhouse

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