| HIGHLAND STATE RECREATION AREA
MAP & BROCHURE CIRCA 1945 |
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In March, 1922, the directors of Dodge Brothers Company agreed to spend up to $350,000 to purchase lands to donate to the State of Michigan for use as public parks in memory of the company's founders, John and Horace Dodge, both of whom had died in 1920. Seven of these park sites were in Oakland County, including Dodge Brothers State Park No. 10 in the northeast quarter of Section 27, Highland Township. Some 20 years later the Michigan Department of Conservation purchased several thousand additional acres of land to the east, including much of Sections 14, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35 and 36 of Highland Township, as well as "Haven Hill," the former Edsel Ford estate in adjoining White Lake Township. Combined with Dodge Brothers State Park No. 10, this became the Highland State Recreation Area. The somewhat crude park brochure and map shown here are believed to date from the first year of the park's opening, circa 1945.
