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DDA members light up Garden Boulevard

December 3, 2013 By Joe Pagano

Flat Rock DDA Member Tracy Cooper
Flat Rock DDA Member Tracy Cooper

Members of the Flat Rock Downtown Development and their families help add lights to the two blocks of Garden Boulevard

DDA District Holiday Lights
DDA District Holiday Lights

between Gibraltar and Huron River.  The bushes on both sides of the boulevard and a couple of trees were wrapped with white lights along with two wreathes.  On the Gibraltar side Lighted Christmas Packages and along with red and green spot lights, give the area a holiday look.   Volunteer members of the DDA are, Joe Pagano, Peg Angelos, Wendy Smith, Tracy Cooper, Michael Crowder, Jim Martin, Anita Twardesky, Shayla Hopper and permanent members Mayor Jonathan Dropiewski and David Grunow.

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WELCOME TO FLAT ROCK

The first Euro-American settlers in Flat Rock were Michael Vreeland and his five grown sons between 1811 and 1820. Michael had been captured by British Rangers during the Revolutionary War and released after American independence.

The family purchased 800 acres (3.2 km2). The town was called the Village of Vreeland until 1838 when the Vreeland family sold off the majority of the land and relinquished control of the area. The Vreeland families built the first grain and lumber mill, having brought the grinding stones from New York.

Descendants of Michael Vreeland still live in the town and attend Flat Rock public schools, being the seventh generation to reside in the town their family founded.

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