Century of contamination: How Zug Island became Detroit’s industrial epicenter

Early ideas for the island included a city garbage dump with a promise of the operations being “smokeless and odorless,” or improving the land into a “healthful resort similar in attractiveness to Belle Isle.”

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Century of contamination: How Zug Island became Detroit’s industrial epicenter

Early ideas for the island included a city garbage dump with a promise of the operations being “smokeless and odorless,” or improving the land into a “healthful resort similar in attractiveness to Belle Isle.”

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