yo iownit must know you. some have bin caved in and big caps on top of entrance in woods. Ryan, Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know how impressed I am by your crew, their work ethic and attention to detail. In that time we had a few people (escapees) that would come to the farm. It is the foundation of one of those former comfort stations. Sarah, Before Prohibition, the beer brewed in my hometown was stored in limestone caves tunneled into the side of a dry river bluff. It was me and Joe Davi who saw him, and offered him a ride. During the remodeling of the old hotel I was fortunate enough to be invited to the basement to view new construction and was shown the tunnel entrances. He broke his pelvis. 3rd floor houses all of our bedrooms. Karsten Johansson, For years there were rumors about a tunnel, a railroad tunnel, a mile or so down that connected Los Alamos National Lab, where Americas first atomic bombs were built, to Sandia National Lab, some 90ish miles as the crow flies South in Albuquerque. Homeless people were also known to use them for shelter. The cottage was the place to be.in the 70s cottage 3 was boys 6 to 12,cottage 4 was boys 13 to 17, 2 was girls can't remember what 5 was use for. They installed a tunnel between the hotel and the pharmacy across the street. The Haggerty West station (seen above) was designed to have a 24-hour attendant on duty there, as part of a systematic development of roadside improvements that launched the concept of round-the-clock travel centers. Engler. Produced by Dan Weisburd, the U.S. i went to edgewood las sunday in search of the tunnels. But the roof looks great; its the rest of the service that needs to be tweaked a little. I remember hearing about the tunnel entrance in the woods. Locals and tourists alike know that bridge traffic during the summer months is no fun thing. Apparently, it was also used as part of an initiation for the new principals who were made to run through the pitch black tunnel before assuming their new post. Thanks again! tunnels in middle of woods still there to this day. intelligent and mature; otherwise they will be deleted. Edgewood has a lot of TB patients and who knows what lurks in those old pipes. Since it was covered in the 1920s to create property for what is now a horse racing venue, the once robust waterway has withered to its current sorry state. Wixom, McGlinch & Sons did a wonderful job with the roof. I know that if a siding issue ever arouse, I would have no problem resolving it with McGlinch and sons. Gretchen Foster, From the mid-1800s until the Tennessee Valley Authority controlled the Tennessee River with a dam system in the early-mid 1930s, our city flooded with alarming regularity. A Scenic Drive From North. According to the. We're probably a couple years out before the actual work starts. Homeless people were also known to use them for shelter. Watched tumbleweed blow across the old front lawns!I recall seeing a few other metalheads hanging out so lets hear it if you were there! Virginia M., West Bloomfield, Ryan, it was a pleasure to work with you and McGlinch and Sons. I did so the following week. Then there was my assigned doc,doctor Utec i hope I'm spelling his name right he was amazing he put me in cottage 3 after only 3 months on the ward.I hope he's still alive but i doubt it he was a little older then in the late 70s. The Chief's son tried to escape and was shot and killed by the butt of another man's rifle caving in his head, that same evening in 1819. Paul Warshauer, Everett, Washington They have really worked hard all along the way and have paid attention to every detail. They were a series of catacombs and strange spaces that captured our imaginations as young art students. I will have nothing but high praise to all that ask me about who did the job. They were lit up from end to end, and we found all sorts of crap down there. Northville Mayor Brian Turnbull was entertained by stories spun by his father Bruceof the elder Turnbull's daring trips through the tunnel. When I was young, some friends and I had been in the mouth of this last one, but didnt progress very deep into it. and the Q.Ri spent many nights in the QR naked and on camera. Should have people in it in 3 weeks. Until we grow into a just and sane society, we need sanctuaries like Hawthorn, but they can never be a substitute for a just and sane society. An eye-opening journey through the history, culture, and places of the culinary world. The hospital shut down in 2003. There are currently two drive-in entrances to the park - the entrance to the horse-riding stables off Beck Road and the main entrance off 8 Mile. we used to go nuts in that place "booking" down them tunnels leaving the girls behind screaming :), We went to the tunnels to the powerhouse and to a boiler room they linked up the buildings rememember huge pipes on one side I believed that they were used to transport the dead to the morgue there were no rats just broken glass we kept a couple of those plastic gray radio shack flashlights that took the 4 D cell batteries hidden in our stash there along with a bowl,a couple of knifes, and a transistor radio.I miss and cherish those times, i had been in the tunnels many times even after the demo job havent been there in many years now but remember off the old blacktop road in the back of the site there used to be a way in was in the middle of the woods a little hard to find tho but after the demo job just went back to where the power station was and bck towards the main bldg again to bad there all gone was some good times there. Ive called a couple times; they still havent picked it up. He fell in the shaft about 20 yrs. She scared the living shit out of me. We were convinced the tunnel had not been used since the 1940s and our guess was confirmed, quietly, by city officials and told to seal the entrance. Someday,the only solution will be another planet;but there is no other planet(in this solar system and galaxy);to bad Venus isn't just like Earth was 10,000 years ago. As of today, last I heard they were permanently closed off with concrete. Don't remember last names but there was Rose,Dave,Roger,Jan and so on. But when you are young you don't think like that. . i was scared shitless. The lady that cooked our food was nice too, don't remember her name. Northville Tunnels; Personnel. Many nights we'd go up, into the mid 80's after a night out at the bars, and scare the crap out of whoever was hanging out up there. People were physically abused and sexually assaulted there. Faint Sounds of Twisted Sister? But the real reason is that the director was a monster, responsible for the drug overdoses of several young teenage boys who he had groomed while they were hospitalized, and for the pregnancies of several hospitalized young women whose babies disappeared. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. I was housed with individuals that were sexual abused and assaulted, diagnosed eating disorders and mild behavior issues due to loss of parents or abuse in the home. Township voters approved the acquisition of the 300-plus acres around the property in 2009, at a cost of $23.5 million. I do remember the farmhouse on Six Mile and the big barn we ran to. "The developer has agreed to fund at least part of the daylighting projects costs.". I was in cottage 5 if memory serves me right. Lots of wildlife dot the landscape. See. There was LOTS of sand but we burrowed through to find about three blocks worth. Urban Exploration in the Travel category. Ricardo Ferreira, Legend has it that there was a tunnel that ran under the street where I was raised. We were convinced the tunnel had not been used since the 1940s and our guess was confirmed, quietly, by city officials and told to seal the entrance. This is in regards to a recent missing person whose last known whereabouts likely to be in the vicinity of the preserve. Some were naturally created, some accidentally as cities like Chattanooga raised the grade of their streets to avoid flooding. Not sure what he did but was getting dragged off often. Long enclosures like this are known as fish passage barriers. Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. Please let them know. And can roam the halls if you are brave enough to. I too was a patient but I should have never been there. Carl Abbott, The Lizard People stored water and treasure in tunnels under Downtown L.A. Eric Dugdale, Old people used to tell that beneath the La Merced Temple (Mercedarian) and Guatemala Citys Catholic Cathedral there were several interconnecting tunnels, excavated to protect nuns and priests from a hostile, anti-clerical government. While I was there I participated in a work activity program that literally paid .45 an hour and was on Northville State hospital property. I will definitely recommend McGlinch and Sons to my colleauges at work, friends, family and to whomever else might ask. It is because of trespassing that the history of this institutiuon was preserved. But for right now I'm just working on getting the complex made. He needed help, but really at home my dad beat him everyday, my grandma called him names, so any help he got was undone when he came home. We want Northville area homeowners to know that we rank in the top 1% of all Velux installers in the nation so you can trust us to provide quality sun tunnel installation and sun tunnel replacement at the best price. I grew up off of Six Mile directly south of the hospital grounds and ventured around as far as I safely could as it was active during my time in Northville. There were 4 or 5 of us in one room. Austin Carpenter, I went to college at Northern Arizona University. But people still managed to get into them to film and graffiti them. Hello UnknownI was discharged the year before you were there and i was 13. Cottage 1 was an Auto shop. Consider supporting our work by becoming a member for as little as $5 a month. I WANT EDGEWOOD CEREAL!!!! I am one very satisfied customer and highly recommend McGlinch and Sons to anyone looking for a roofing contractor. The Hand Mansion was demolished years ago, but the Hand Trading Company still stands! Share your stories, pictures and video. Mostly, it's probably just fungi and bacteria. Its not nonsense it is from a story I wrote years ago about Edgewood, I think Edgewood would make a great horror story. Im skeptical that the tunnels still exist, but its a legend that most people here know about. The farm we lived on was exactly behind the NSPH on 6 mike rd. Our team provides custom design service, and each sun tunnel replacement service comes with a certified warranty. Flat Rock, McGlinch and Sons Co. are very experienced in working with James Hardie Siding. __We were approaching the school from the south on the east side when we saw a group of people gathered around the small maintenance shed just outside of the schools south entrance near the arches going the theater. Township Treasurer Jason Rhines said "the time is now" to clear the site. Rachel Woodward, I purchased the historic seven story Masonic Temple, built in 1925 in Grand Island. the TUNNELS the MONKEY LADY lived in them chicken bones and shit all over the place !! You sent us stories of old bootlegger tunnels, forgotten service networks, insane asylum escape routes, and more than a few cases of steam tunnels lurking beneath the halls of academia. Awesome Inc. theme. http://www.motorcities.org/pdf/yrt_tours_cent_rrouge.pdf, http://detroitarchitectjournal.blogspot.ca/2013/09/taking-comfort-in-wayne-countys-hines.html, http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,4616,7-151-9620_11154_11188-29293--,00.html, http://cruisinhines.com/graphics/hfstory.pdf, The Detroit Preservation Movement's Gettysburg, The "Lost" Neighborhood of Detroit (Part 2), The "Lost" Neighborhood of Detroit (Part 1). They shut down in the 80s, I believe, but were bought out by someone else, who continued using the trolley cars until they closed and then the trolley cars were parked and the tunnel was closed off. John, The Great Miami River runs right through the heart of Franklin. Claire, Top image via Keary O./Flickr Creative Commons. Eventually the campus masturbator got too cocky and was apprehended when he tried a mid-afternoon attack. We are impressed and satisfied with the final result. Northville Residential Training Centerinstitution for retarded juveniles, on the campus of NRPH, A: Administration and medical (built 1950-51), M: Young adult patients (built 1954, expanded 1979), N: Young adult patients (built 1954, expanded 1979), Blg 72: EPIC Center patients (built 1951), http://www.northvillehistory.org/keyword.html, http://www.northvillehistory.org/interviews/Watkins-Tom.pdf, http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Northville_State_Hospital, http://wacots.org/tiki-index.php?page=Northville%20Regional%20Psychiatric%20Hospital, Northville State Hospital (Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital), NRPH Part 1: The "New" Northville Tunnels, NRPH Part 2: The Lunatics Running the Asylum. A convenient, accessible bicycle/pedestrian entrance was developed in 2015 at the northeast corner of the park that connects to the regional Link trail. "I'm very optimistic," he said. Our efforts to address the demonic social forces that cause mental illness have devolved into technocratic emergency city managers and prisons filled with the mentally ill who are too dangerous to allow to aimlessly wander the streets. I like sickpeople version of the underground civilization but what is a "Mullet Head"? Fish aren't likely to swim through it, either. "Certain things we do aren't good for the environment. We had a greenhouse just shy of that. The main park entrance is on Eight Mile Road but there is another entrance along Beck Road that I recommend. Still others seem to be more fiction that fact, unless lizard people really are hiding treasure under the streets of Los Angeles. I once encountered a female patient wandering the grounds in a vest with restraints to her wrist. These allowed access to almost every building. I feel sad u all had to leave your familys and endure all the pain and suffering! 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