Ecorse Along the Detroit River
  • Ecorse Along the Detroit River
  • Ecorse-Chapter Three
  • Western Yacht Club Bachelors
  • "Smitty", Jim Smith's Photo
  • A Bob: Lo Boat Tragedy
  • Echoes of Ecorse
  • Thomas Enright Contributed Much to Ecorse
  • New Prohibition Book
  • Mr. Sweet's Madame Jeanette
  • Ecorse Way Back When
  • Ecorse Rowing Club Note
  • Ecorse Mayor Manning Memories
  • Ecorse, in Community America
  • Ecorse Eyes - Photo Flashes of Ecorse History-Chapter 2
  • Ecorse History At A Glance
  • Mr. Cosbey's History of Ecorse
  • Ecorse Echoes, the Oldest Downriver Community
  • Ecorse Rowing Club
  • Downriver Back in the Days!
  • Monroe Memories and More
  • Think Before You Take A Photo from this Site!
  • Ecorse Memorial Day Memories
  • Ecorse Eyes - Photo Flashes of Ecorse History
  • Ecorse Policeman Richard Oldfield
  • E Books and Print Books for Sale
  • Celebrating the New St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, August 1953
  • Can You Help Identify the Mystery Tapestry?
  • John Duguay's Ecorse - 1950s-1960s
  • Virgil Ciungan Passes Away
  • Ecorse Celebrates the Fourth of July - In Days Gone By!
  • Ecorse and Downriver Slide Show
  • Ecorse Senior Center Memories - 2005
  • Ecorse Senior Center -2005-2006
  • Slavery in Detroit and Downriver
  • I Remember Ecorse
    • Growing Up in Ecorse in the 1950s and 1960s
    • Dorothy Cummings Dunlop Remembers Ecorse
    • Grandma Robson's Christmas Tree
    • More Ecorse Memories
    • I Remember Affholters-Marvin Graves
    • Former Students Remember Miss Helen Garlington
    • Memories of Ecorse Ice Skating Rink-Diane St. Aubin (McQueen)
    • Miss Arlyne Burr, A Ecorse School One Music Teacher Memory
    • I Remember Ecorse-Rob Zawoysky
    • I Remember Ecorse-Tom Trevino, Ken Corns
    • Memories of School Three
  • Ecorse Advertisements in the Ecorse Advertiser!
  • A Pitt Street in Ecorse Christmas
  • The Villages of Grandport, Glenwood, Bacon, and Ecorse
  • Al DuHadway Recorded Ecorse History for the Mellus Newspapers
  • Ecorse Advertiser Statistics, Opinions, and Predictions, 1948
  • Morris "Sandy" Blakeman Took Historic Photos of Ecorse
  • Ecorse Slide Shows
  • Jefferson Avenue
    • The French-Indian Trail, the Monroe Pike, the River Road, and Jefferson Avenue
  • The Downriver Underground Railroad
  • The French Goodell Pear Tree
  • Ecorse Churches
    • Ecorse Presbyterian Church History
    • Ecorse Presbyterian Church Cookbook
    • Ground Broken for New St. Francis Xavier Church, 1951
    • The Presbyterians Meet in Raupp Hall
    • St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
    • Ecorse Presbyterian Church
    • Father-Son Banquet, Ecorse Presbyterian Church, 1955
    • St. Anne Rosary Altar Society
  • Ecorse Soldiers
    • Elijah Goodell, Revolutionary War Veteran
    • Ecorse Soldiers in the War of 1812
    • Ecorse Soldiers Fight in the Civil War
    • Backwater River and British Bluster
    • Three Ecorse Farm Boys Join the Michigan Cavalry
    • Adventures of Ecorse 24th Michigan Volunteers
    • Ecorse World War I Veterans
    • Dr. Hileman and Duke Underill Served in World War I
    • World War I Veterans Don Dodge and John Bauer
    • Sandy Blakeman's World War II
    • Honoring More Ecorse World War II Veterans
    • Ecorse Soldiers and Patriots
    • Ecorse World War II Veterans
    • Ecorse Soldiers Help Win D Day and World War II
    • Ecorse World War II Veterans Claude S. Monroe, Dr. Louis Lackey, and Lt. Louis Nagy >
      • Ecorse Korean War Veterans
      • Ecorse Korean War Soldiers
      • Korean War 1955
      • Ecorse Vietnam Veterans Remembered Despite the Blank Name Plates
      • Ecorse Women Serve
      • Ecorse Veteran's Organizations
      • Ecorse Veterans Were Active in American Legion Posts
      • Ecorse Veterans Organized >
        • Veterans of Foreign Wars Present Award to Harry Monks
  • Ecorse Events
    • Al DuHadway Writes that Grandport was Once Center of Ecorse
    • Downriver Dancing Under the Trees
    • Muskrat Love, Those Downriver Muskrat Dinners
    • Ecorse-1920s and 1930s
    • Ecorse Time Capsule, 1930s
    • Ecorse Time Capsules, 1940s
    • 1940s Fragments from Ecorse History
    • Ecorse Sawed Its Way Through Michigan's Lumber Boom
    • Ecorse Landmarks Make Way for Wider Jefferson Avenue - 1935
    • Brotherhood Week, February 1957
    • Some Old Ecorse Landmarks
    • Ecorse Dedicates New Playground
    • Ecorse Events and Editorials, May 1950
    • Ecorse Calendar, Fall 1950
    • Ecorse Activities, February 1957
    • Ecorse Events in June 1964
    • May 1975 is a Busy Month in Ecorse
  • Ecorse Rowing Club Vintage Photos
    • Ecorse Rowing Club Slide Show
    • Ecorse Rowing Club in the Beginning
    • The Ecorse Rowing Club Continues
    • Charles Tank and His Friends Reorganize the Ecorse Rowing Club
    • Jim Rice, A Larger Than Life Coach in the Small Town of Ecorse
    • The Ecorse Rowing Club Rows Strong and Sponsors the Oarsmen's Balls
    • Ecorse Rowing Club - Building Shells
    • Rafting the Waters and Pulling an Oar for Ecorse - the Story of the Ecorse Rowing Club
    • Ecorse Rowing Club Pictures
    • Janice Hoffman Chosen Seventeenth Rowing Queen on Seventeenth Birthday
  • Ecorse At School
    • Going to School in Ecorse
    • Didn't Everybody Have Spanish or Latin With Mr. Santoro?
    • Ecorse High School - 1935 and 1936
    • Ecorse 1942 Yearbook
    • Summer Activities at School One, School Two, and School Three, August 1950
    • Cornerstone Laid for New Bunche School
    • Old Time Ecorse High School Teachers
    • Kindergarten Children Mother Baby Chicks
    • Ecorse School One -1949
    • St, Francis High School Students Travel
    • St. Francis Xavier High School's Last Graduating Class, 1969
    • An Ecorse Bell
    • School Three Wins Eighth Safety Award
    • Grade Three Pupils at School Two and President Eisenhower
    • Some Ecorse Education Events of 1958
  • St. Francis High School History Papers - 1959
    • The Downriver Area Today
    • Detroit River Transportation
    • Religion in the Downriver Communities
    • Ecorse in the Past
    • Division of the Downriver Communities
  • Ecorse People
    • John Duguay's Ecorse
    • Mrs. Ada Saunders, Mrs. Ecorse Librarian, Retires in May 1957
    • Captain McCauley and his daughter Clementine
    • The Pioneering Clarks of Ecorse, Brownstown, and NorthvilleD
    • Bits of Ecorse Biographyl
    • More Bits of Ecorse Biography
    • Charles Embry, "Black Jesus"
    • High Street and Two Ecorse Fire Chiefs Connected by Fate and Friendship
    • Leo Navarre Wins A Car
    • Miss Goodell's Back Yard
    • Music Was A Family Matter for the Campbells
    • Ecorse Grandmother Patents Idea of Puppets with Feet
    • We Made Beautiful Music Together in Ecorse
    • Ann Starr Operates Dancing School and Participates in Community Activities
    • Twenty Years with the Sheriff's Department
    • Alex Campau and Florence Campau Drouillard
    • The Duke Welcomes the Colonel
    • John Seavitt Heads Ecorse Civil Defense Program
    • Social Notes from the Ecorse Advertiser, 1950
    • Great Lakes Fur Trader Pierre LeBlanc Lived in Ecorse
    • Montie Memories
    • Some Outstanding Ecorse Young People, April 1955
  • Practicing Medicine in Ecorse
    • Dr. Robert McQuiston
    • Two Ecorse Nurses
    • Helen Caffo Named Longevity Champion
    • Polio in Ecorse, 1951
  • Ecorse Businesses
    • Ecorse Businesses, 1850-1930
    • Remember Baklarz Supermarket?
    • Baklarz Market Grand Opening
    • Ecorse Business, 1950
    • Great Lakes Steel Stories
    • Sandy Blakeman Sidelites
    • Sandy Blakeman Sidelites- Don Dodge
    • Ecorse Businesses - 1946-1949
  • Ecorse Organizations
    • Ecorse Kiwanis Club Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
    • Ecorse Kiwanis Club Dedicates Wading Pool, 1951
    • The Downriver Pennsylvania Club
    • Ecorse Rotary Club
    • Milton Montie Retires from Ecorse Fire Department
    • Toll of Ecorse Fire Now at Four Dead
    • Fire Chief Al Jaeger Recalls the Day He Fought Fires and Felons
    • Ecorse Police Department 1955
  • Ecorse Public Library
    • Ecorse Library - 1948
    • Ecorse Library to be Air Conditioned
  • Maritime Ecorse
    • Ecorse, the Maj Ragne, and the St. Lawrence Seaway
    • Ecorse, John Duguay, and the Edmund Fitzgerald
    • Little Ecorse (and River Rouge) Built Big Ships: The Story of the Great Lakes Engineering Works
    • Little Ecorse (And River Rouge) Built Big Ships - 2
    • Little Ecorse (and River Rouge) Build Big Ships: The Story of Great Lakes Engineering Works - Conclusion
    • The Bob-Lo Boats and Bob-Lo Island
    • The Hacketts of Bob-Lo Island
    • Memories of the Bob-Lo Boat Columbia
    • Water Wings, Ecorse 1950s
    • Ecorse and Mud Island
  • Ecorse Politics
    • Mayor Louis Parker
    • Mayor Voisine Asks for Mill Study Ordinances
    • Ecorse Mourns Mayor William Voisine, July 1959
    • Ecorse Celebrates and Anniversary and Holds a Council Meeting, July 1975
    • Ecorse Politics, 1949 Style
    • Mayors from the Past
    • Mayor Albert Buday
    • Ecorse Political People
  • Silent Story Tellers - St. Francis Xavier (Ecorse) Cemetery
  • Silent Story Tellers - St. Francis Xavier (Ecorse) Cemetery - Part II
  • Ecorse Prohibition Stories
    • Rum Running Between Amendments
    • Eli "Peck" LeBlanc
    • The Detroit River, the Poster Highway for Prohibition
  • Ecorse Sports and Entertainment
    • The Harbor Theater
    • Ecorse Hockey Pictures
  • Ecorse Obituaries
    • Ecorse Obituaries, 1950s
    • Ecorse Obituaries-2
  • Ecorse End Notes
    • Rowing Club Information
    • Ecorse, 1920s
    • Ecorse Departments, 1954
    • Ecorse End Notes - French Land Claims
    • Ecorse End Notes: Ecorse Railroads - 1930s
    • Richard Oldfield's Ecorse Dog Andy
    • Ecorse Recreation Department - 1948
    • Local Black Community - 1920s and 1930s
    • Great Lakes Engineering
    • Ecorse Businesses - 1921
  • Ecorse Kids
    • Francoise the Ecorse Seagull Finds His Family Tree
    • Ecorse River Ramblings
    • Smoky, the Ecorse Firehouse Dog
    • Captain Goldsmith, Freddy, Francine, and the Fighting Island Sea Serpent
  • Ecorse Historical Museum - Virtually for Now!
  • Virtual Exhibit - Ecorse Along the Detroit River
    • Robert Short and Mayor Voisine
    • Brotherhood Pageant, 1963
    • Ecorse Cleaners Cleans Flag
    • Brotherhood Week Banquet
    • Ecorse Images
  • Ecorse Events, August 1962
    • Ecorse Screw Machine Products Company
  • Ecorse Way Back When
  • Ecorse, in Community America

Rum Running Between Amendments


Boatloads of smugglers signaled with pocket torches. A blue light flashed once and then twice.”all was clear.” A large sheet on a clothesline meant “run, police!”

On August 11, 1921, shipments of beer and liquor from Canada to the United States became legal. This opened up a glittering world of rum running, roustabouts, and riches for the ordinary people of Ecorse, Michigan.

Immediately, three Ecorse workers took their savings and traveled to Montreal, Canada, where the sale of liquor was legal. The workers bought 25 cases of whiskey and drove back to Windsor. They rowed a small boat back and forth across the river until all of their treasure was ferried to the American side. They posted a lookout for Canadian and American customs officials just in case, but all went well. They sold their liquor in Ecorse and used their profits to finance a second and third trip.

The Detroit River, a Hooch Highway

Historians estimate that during the 1920s and 1930s about 75 percent of the illegal liquor brought into the United States during Prohibition came through the Detroit River corridor. Small communities like River Rouge, Ecorse, Wyandotte and Trenton are strung out like beads along the river from Detroit to Toledo, Ohio. Their geography encouraged rum running because of their location on the Detroit River with Canada only a mile across the water.

The United States enacted Prohibition as law in 1920 by passing the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and another amendment, the 21st, didn’t repeal it until 1933. The twelve years between amendments were lawless ones for the country in general and for the communities along the Detroit River in particular. Ecorse participated as enthusiastically as the other communities.

Downriver Communities Like Ecorse Ride Along

Rum running boats by the dozen were moored each day at the Ecorse municipal dock at the foot of State Street (now Southfield), which ran through the village’s central business district. Rum runners transferred their cargoes to waiting cars and trucks, while residents, police and officials watched. Officials erected a board fence to protect the waterfront but rum runners went around or beneath it. Some Canadian breweries set up export docks on the shore just outside of LaSalle, Ontario, which is directly across the Detroit River from Ecorse. Fighting Island, situated in the middle of the river between Ecorse and LaSalle conveniently hid rum runners from police patrols.

In the early rum running days, the atmosphere on the river resembled a 24-hour party. Women participated with men in the rum running and the person in the next boat could be a local councilman or the school drama teacher. Boat
owners could transport as many as 2,500 cases of liquor each month at a net profit of $25,000 with the owner earning about $10,000. Some rum runners made 800 percent profit on a load of liquor. The only real perils of the sea that the rum runners encountered during those first years were losing directions in the middle of the river at night and collisions with other boats.


In the winter the river often froze solid and the rum runners took advantage of the ice road. They used iceboats, sleds and cars to transport liquor from the Canadian side to Ecorse. Convoys of cars from Canada crossed the ice daily. Cars on the American shore lined up at night and turned on the headlights to provide an illuminated expressway across the ice.

The Battle of Hogan's Alley

A prolonged cold spell in January and February of 1930 produced thick and inviting ice on Upper Lake Erie and the Detroit River. Hundreds of tire tracks marked the ice trail from the Canadian docks to the American shore. On a February morning in 1930, a Detroit News reporter counted 75 cars leaving the Amherstburg beer docks. He wrote that ten carried Ohio license plates and headed down river for south and east points on the Ohio shore. Others drove to the Canadian side of Grosse Ile. When the cars arrived on Grosse Ile, the liquor was loaded into camouflaged trucks and driven across the toll bridge
to the American mainland.


Prohibition stimulated the mushroom growth of crime and criminal gangs and syndicates became interwoven in the national fabric of America. Hogan’s Alley in Ecorse was a small example of national crime and a small side street comprised of a row of dimly lighted shacks sometimes used as private bars that were called “blind pigs.” Only smugglers and select guests who knew the pass word were admitted to Hogan’s Alley. Once inside Hogan’s Alley sights to be enjoyed included young men wearing fancy clothes and diamond rings in imitation of Al Capone, piles of money changing hands, and countless cocktails disappearing down thirsty throats.

A Wild West style battle between law and order and the rumrunners and their defenders took place in 1928 in Hogan’s Alley. Several cars and three boats holding about 30 Customs Border Patrol inspectors gathered at the end of Hogan’s Alley at the foot of State Street (Southfield) to wait in ambush for the rum runners. Rum running boats pulled up to a nearby pier and the agents rushed them and arrested the seven crew members.

Hogans Alley and Prohibition Defeated

As soon as they were arrested, the crew of the boat yelled for help. Rescuers rushed from all around. Over 200 people arrived to stop the agents from leaving with the prisoners. The people attacked the customs agents’ cars,slashing tires and breaking windshields. They pushed other cars across the alley entrance and threw rocks and bottles at the agents. Before the situation became too desperate, the agents banded together, rushed the barricade, and escaped.

Hogan's Alley didn't flourish forever. In 1929, the state widened Jefferson Avenue and the shacks in Hogan’s Alley were torn down. Then Prohibition was repealed. A stroke of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's pen demolished an entire flourishing industry in December 1933. The rumrunners were legalized out of business and Ecorse city officials tore down the fence by the waterfront and created a park.

References

"Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the
Michigan-Ontario Waterway," Philip P. Mason, Wayne State University Press,
1995.


"Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America," Edward Behr,
Arcade Publishing, 1996.


 

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  • Ecorse Along the Detroit River
  • Ecorse-Chapter Three
  • Western Yacht Club Bachelors
  • "Smitty", Jim Smith's Photo
  • A Bob: Lo Boat Tragedy
  • Echoes of Ecorse
  • Thomas Enright Contributed Much to Ecorse
  • New Prohibition Book
  • Mr. Sweet's Madame Jeanette
  • Ecorse Way Back When
  • Ecorse Rowing Club Note
  • Ecorse Mayor Manning Memories
  • Ecorse, in Community America
  • Ecorse Eyes - Photo Flashes of Ecorse History-Chapter 2
  • Ecorse History At A Glance
  • Mr. Cosbey's History of Ecorse
  • Ecorse Echoes, the Oldest Downriver Community
  • Ecorse Rowing Club
  • Downriver Back in the Days!
  • Monroe Memories and More
  • Think Before You Take A Photo from this Site!
  • Ecorse Memorial Day Memories
  • Ecorse Eyes - Photo Flashes of Ecorse History
  • Ecorse Policeman Richard Oldfield
  • E Books and Print Books for Sale
  • Celebrating the New St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, August 1953
  • Can You Help Identify the Mystery Tapestry?
  • John Duguay's Ecorse - 1950s-1960s
  • Virgil Ciungan Passes Away
  • Ecorse Celebrates the Fourth of July - In Days Gone By!
  • Ecorse and Downriver Slide Show
  • Ecorse Senior Center Memories - 2005
  • Ecorse Senior Center -2005-2006
  • Slavery in Detroit and Downriver
  • I Remember Ecorse
    • Growing Up in Ecorse in the 1950s and 1960s
    • Dorothy Cummings Dunlop Remembers Ecorse
    • Grandma Robson's Christmas Tree
    • More Ecorse Memories
    • I Remember Affholters-Marvin Graves
    • Former Students Remember Miss Helen Garlington
    • Memories of Ecorse Ice Skating Rink-Diane St. Aubin (McQueen)
    • Miss Arlyne Burr, A Ecorse School One Music Teacher Memory
    • I Remember Ecorse-Rob Zawoysky
    • I Remember Ecorse-Tom Trevino, Ken Corns
    • Memories of School Three
  • Ecorse Advertisements in the Ecorse Advertiser!
  • A Pitt Street in Ecorse Christmas
  • The Villages of Grandport, Glenwood, Bacon, and Ecorse
  • Al DuHadway Recorded Ecorse History for the Mellus Newspapers
  • Ecorse Advertiser Statistics, Opinions, and Predictions, 1948
  • Morris "Sandy" Blakeman Took Historic Photos of Ecorse
  • Ecorse Slide Shows
  • Jefferson Avenue
    • The French-Indian Trail, the Monroe Pike, the River Road, and Jefferson Avenue
  • The Downriver Underground Railroad
  • The French Goodell Pear Tree
  • Ecorse Churches
    • Ecorse Presbyterian Church History
    • Ecorse Presbyterian Church Cookbook
    • Ground Broken for New St. Francis Xavier Church, 1951
    • The Presbyterians Meet in Raupp Hall
    • St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
    • Ecorse Presbyterian Church
    • Father-Son Banquet, Ecorse Presbyterian Church, 1955
    • St. Anne Rosary Altar Society
  • Ecorse Soldiers
    • Elijah Goodell, Revolutionary War Veteran
    • Ecorse Soldiers in the War of 1812
    • Ecorse Soldiers Fight in the Civil War
    • Backwater River and British Bluster
    • Three Ecorse Farm Boys Join the Michigan Cavalry
    • Adventures of Ecorse 24th Michigan Volunteers
    • Ecorse World War I Veterans
    • Dr. Hileman and Duke Underill Served in World War I
    • World War I Veterans Don Dodge and John Bauer
    • Sandy Blakeman's World War II
    • Honoring More Ecorse World War II Veterans
    • Ecorse Soldiers and Patriots
    • Ecorse World War II Veterans
    • Ecorse Soldiers Help Win D Day and World War II
    • Ecorse World War II Veterans Claude S. Monroe, Dr. Louis Lackey, and Lt. Louis Nagy >
      • Ecorse Korean War Veterans
      • Ecorse Korean War Soldiers
      • Korean War 1955
      • Ecorse Vietnam Veterans Remembered Despite the Blank Name Plates
      • Ecorse Women Serve
      • Ecorse Veteran's Organizations
      • Ecorse Veterans Were Active in American Legion Posts
      • Ecorse Veterans Organized >
        • Veterans of Foreign Wars Present Award to Harry Monks
  • Ecorse Events
    • Al DuHadway Writes that Grandport was Once Center of Ecorse
    • Downriver Dancing Under the Trees
    • Muskrat Love, Those Downriver Muskrat Dinners
    • Ecorse-1920s and 1930s
    • Ecorse Time Capsule, 1930s
    • Ecorse Time Capsules, 1940s
    • 1940s Fragments from Ecorse History
    • Ecorse Sawed Its Way Through Michigan's Lumber Boom
    • Ecorse Landmarks Make Way for Wider Jefferson Avenue - 1935
    • Brotherhood Week, February 1957
    • Some Old Ecorse Landmarks
    • Ecorse Dedicates New Playground
    • Ecorse Events and Editorials, May 1950
    • Ecorse Calendar, Fall 1950
    • Ecorse Activities, February 1957
    • Ecorse Events in June 1964
    • May 1975 is a Busy Month in Ecorse
  • Ecorse Rowing Club Vintage Photos
    • Ecorse Rowing Club Slide Show
    • Ecorse Rowing Club in the Beginning
    • The Ecorse Rowing Club Continues
    • Charles Tank and His Friends Reorganize the Ecorse Rowing Club
    • Jim Rice, A Larger Than Life Coach in the Small Town of Ecorse
    • The Ecorse Rowing Club Rows Strong and Sponsors the Oarsmen's Balls
    • Ecorse Rowing Club - Building Shells
    • Rafting the Waters and Pulling an Oar for Ecorse - the Story of the Ecorse Rowing Club
    • Ecorse Rowing Club Pictures
    • Janice Hoffman Chosen Seventeenth Rowing Queen on Seventeenth Birthday
  • Ecorse At School
    • Going to School in Ecorse
    • Didn't Everybody Have Spanish or Latin With Mr. Santoro?
    • Ecorse High School - 1935 and 1936
    • Ecorse 1942 Yearbook
    • Summer Activities at School One, School Two, and School Three, August 1950
    • Cornerstone Laid for New Bunche School
    • Old Time Ecorse High School Teachers
    • Kindergarten Children Mother Baby Chicks
    • Ecorse School One -1949
    • St, Francis High School Students Travel
    • St. Francis Xavier High School's Last Graduating Class, 1969
    • An Ecorse Bell
    • School Three Wins Eighth Safety Award
    • Grade Three Pupils at School Two and President Eisenhower
    • Some Ecorse Education Events of 1958
  • St. Francis High School History Papers - 1959
    • The Downriver Area Today
    • Detroit River Transportation
    • Religion in the Downriver Communities
    • Ecorse in the Past
    • Division of the Downriver Communities
  • Ecorse People
    • John Duguay's Ecorse
    • Mrs. Ada Saunders, Mrs. Ecorse Librarian, Retires in May 1957
    • Captain McCauley and his daughter Clementine
    • The Pioneering Clarks of Ecorse, Brownstown, and NorthvilleD
    • Bits of Ecorse Biographyl
    • More Bits of Ecorse Biography
    • Charles Embry, "Black Jesus"
    • High Street and Two Ecorse Fire Chiefs Connected by Fate and Friendship
    • Leo Navarre Wins A Car
    • Miss Goodell's Back Yard
    • Music Was A Family Matter for the Campbells
    • Ecorse Grandmother Patents Idea of Puppets with Feet
    • We Made Beautiful Music Together in Ecorse
    • Ann Starr Operates Dancing School and Participates in Community Activities
    • Twenty Years with the Sheriff's Department
    • Alex Campau and Florence Campau Drouillard
    • The Duke Welcomes the Colonel
    • John Seavitt Heads Ecorse Civil Defense Program
    • Social Notes from the Ecorse Advertiser, 1950
    • Great Lakes Fur Trader Pierre LeBlanc Lived in Ecorse
    • Montie Memories
    • Some Outstanding Ecorse Young People, April 1955
  • Practicing Medicine in Ecorse
    • Dr. Robert McQuiston
    • Two Ecorse Nurses
    • Helen Caffo Named Longevity Champion
    • Polio in Ecorse, 1951
  • Ecorse Businesses
    • Ecorse Businesses, 1850-1930
    • Remember Baklarz Supermarket?
    • Baklarz Market Grand Opening
    • Ecorse Business, 1950
    • Great Lakes Steel Stories
    • Sandy Blakeman Sidelites
    • Sandy Blakeman Sidelites- Don Dodge
    • Ecorse Businesses - 1946-1949
  • Ecorse Organizations
    • Ecorse Kiwanis Club Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
    • Ecorse Kiwanis Club Dedicates Wading Pool, 1951
    • The Downriver Pennsylvania Club
    • Ecorse Rotary Club
    • Milton Montie Retires from Ecorse Fire Department
    • Toll of Ecorse Fire Now at Four Dead
    • Fire Chief Al Jaeger Recalls the Day He Fought Fires and Felons
    • Ecorse Police Department 1955
  • Ecorse Public Library
    • Ecorse Library - 1948
    • Ecorse Library to be Air Conditioned
  • Maritime Ecorse
    • Ecorse, the Maj Ragne, and the St. Lawrence Seaway
    • Ecorse, John Duguay, and the Edmund Fitzgerald
    • Little Ecorse (and River Rouge) Built Big Ships: The Story of the Great Lakes Engineering Works
    • Little Ecorse (And River Rouge) Built Big Ships - 2
    • Little Ecorse (and River Rouge) Build Big Ships: The Story of Great Lakes Engineering Works - Conclusion
    • The Bob-Lo Boats and Bob-Lo Island
    • The Hacketts of Bob-Lo Island
    • Memories of the Bob-Lo Boat Columbia
    • Water Wings, Ecorse 1950s
    • Ecorse and Mud Island
  • Ecorse Politics
    • Mayor Louis Parker
    • Mayor Voisine Asks for Mill Study Ordinances
    • Ecorse Mourns Mayor William Voisine, July 1959
    • Ecorse Celebrates and Anniversary and Holds a Council Meeting, July 1975
    • Ecorse Politics, 1949 Style
    • Mayors from the Past
    • Mayor Albert Buday
    • Ecorse Political People
  • Silent Story Tellers - St. Francis Xavier (Ecorse) Cemetery
  • Silent Story Tellers - St. Francis Xavier (Ecorse) Cemetery - Part II
  • Ecorse Prohibition Stories
    • Rum Running Between Amendments
    • Eli "Peck" LeBlanc
    • The Detroit River, the Poster Highway for Prohibition
  • Ecorse Sports and Entertainment
    • The Harbor Theater
    • Ecorse Hockey Pictures
  • Ecorse Obituaries
    • Ecorse Obituaries, 1950s
    • Ecorse Obituaries-2
  • Ecorse End Notes
    • Rowing Club Information
    • Ecorse, 1920s
    • Ecorse Departments, 1954
    • Ecorse End Notes - French Land Claims
    • Ecorse End Notes: Ecorse Railroads - 1930s
    • Richard Oldfield's Ecorse Dog Andy
    • Ecorse Recreation Department - 1948
    • Local Black Community - 1920s and 1930s
    • Great Lakes Engineering
    • Ecorse Businesses - 1921
  • Ecorse Kids
    • Francoise the Ecorse Seagull Finds His Family Tree
    • Ecorse River Ramblings
    • Smoky, the Ecorse Firehouse Dog
    • Captain Goldsmith, Freddy, Francine, and the Fighting Island Sea Serpent
  • Ecorse Historical Museum - Virtually for Now!
  • Virtual Exhibit - Ecorse Along the Detroit River
    • Robert Short and Mayor Voisine
    • Brotherhood Pageant, 1963
    • Ecorse Cleaners Cleans Flag
    • Brotherhood Week Banquet
    • Ecorse Images
  • Ecorse Events, August 1962
    • Ecorse Screw Machine Products Company
  • Ecorse Way Back When
  • Ecorse, in Community America