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Southgate, Wayne County

Well-Known Places in Southgate

Market Center Park, Heritage Days Festival grounds, Anderson High School.

Southgate Business Districts

• Eureka Road corridor
• Fort Street corridor
• Trenton Road / Dix-Toledo corridor

Major Employers in Southgate

Southgate Community School District, Meijer, City of Southgate, Henry Ford Health (area facilities).

About Southgate, Wayne County

Southgate is a Wayne County suburb in the Downriver cluster south of Detroit, grown from Pierre Michel Campau's 1795 farm into a postwar bedroom community incorporated in 1958. It is one of the few U.S. cities literally named after a shopping center, and today it markets itself as the Dining Capital of Downriver for its dense restaurant corridors along Eureka, Trenton, and Fort roads.

History of Southgate

• Pierre Michel Campau became the first European settler in 1795, farming land that was then part of rural Ecorse Township.
• Street grids were first platted in the 1920s, but most residential building came in the boom right after World War II.
• Incorporated as a city on October 8, 1958, from one of the last remaining pieces of the now-defunct Ecorse Township.

Landmarks and Places in Southgate

• Market Center Park, home to Heritage Days.
• Southgate Nature Center, a roughly 30-acre preserve with ponds, a fishing dock, forest, and trails.
• Southgate Civic Center, which houses two ice rinks and a figure skating team.

The Southgate Economy

• Retail- and dining-heavy identity; the Southgate Shopping Center that opened in 1957 was the city's original economic anchor.
• Restaurants form a defining economic sector, the basis of the Dining Capital of Downriver nickname.
• Serves as a residential suburb within the broader Downriver automotive-belt economy of southern Wayne County.

Community Life in Southgate

• Heritage Days Festival runs early each summer at Market Center Park (13631 Eureka Rd) with a parade, classic car show and business expo, carnival, laser show, Kid O'lympics, a police cornhole tournament, and live music (49th annual referenced).
• Ashley Qualls, who founded the MySpace-layout site Whateverlife.com at age 14 and bought a roughly $250,000 Southgate home as a teen, grew up here.
• Marcie Bolen, guitarist and co-founder of the Detroit garage-rock band The Von Bondies (Pawn Shoppe Heart, 2004), grew up in Southgate.

Local reference: en.wikipedia.org, www.southgatemi.org, www.southgatemi.org