Closed – archive entryLincoln Park 8 Theatre1748 Dix Highway, Lincoln Park, MI 48146
Metro Detroit Wayne County City
Lincoln Park
Ford workers' bungalow town where Pontiac held council and the MC5 turned it up
- People (2025 estimate)
- 38,529
- Land area
- 5.8 sq mi · 15.1 km²
- From downtown
- 9.2 miles · 15 km · southwest
- Incorporated
- 1925
Nothing on our calendar here this week yet.
01 / Why it matters
Why Lincoln Park matters
Lincoln Park sits in northern Downriver, and at first glance it's a quiet grid of brick bungalows. The real story is the Rouge plant: once Henry Ford started paying five dollars a day, loads of workers bought lots here, and the place went from village in 1921 to city in 1925.
Down by the Ecorse River the story goes back much further. On April 27, 1763, at what is now Council Point Park, the Ottawa leader Pontiac spoke to a council of the region's tribes and urged them to strike British Fort Detroit. Fast-forward two centuries and the guitars showed up: the MC5 formed here, and Bob Seger spent some time at Lincoln Park High School.
There's a Hungarian thread too. When I-75 construction tore through Delray, Detroit's Hungarian neighborhood, in the mid-1960s, many Hungarian families moved to Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Melvindale and Riverview. And the lobby of the old post office once held a mural by the Hungarian-born painter Zoltan Sepeshy.
02 / Known for
What Lincoln Park is known for
Council Point Park, where Pontiac gathered the tribes in April 1763; a small engraved boulder marks the spot
Hometown of the MC5, the proto-punk band that recorded its live Kick Out the Jams album at Detroit's Grande Ballroom in October 1968
The Classical Revival post office dedicated in 1939 now houses the Lincoln Park Historical Museum; it joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2004
The post office lobby originally held Hauling in the Nets, a mural by Hungarian-born Zoltan Sepeshy; it now hangs in the Marine Museum on Beaver Island
The city declared November 17, 2017, Bob Seger Day: he went to school here and played the city's bandshell in the 1960s
03 / What’s on
What’s on in Lincoln Park
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04 / Places
8 places on our site in Lincoln Park
Closed – archive entryLincoln Park 8 Theatre1748 Dix Highway, Lincoln Park, MI 4814605 / What to do
If you’re in Lincoln Park
Council Point Park
A 27-acre park along the Ecorse with a 1.9-mile walking loop, ball fields and the Pontiac council boulder. Great for a riverside walk.
Official site ↗Lincoln Park Historical Museum
Housed in the old post office, it collects everything from early French and German settlers to the Ford era and old Ecorse Township.
Official site ↗Memorial Park
At Fort and London: an open-air bandshell, the war memorial and the Blumrosen Memorial Rose Garden.
Official site ↗
06 / History
Lincoln Park through the years
- 1763
On April 27, Pontiac addresses a council of tribes on the Ecorse River and urges an attack on Fort Detroit.
- 1776
The Potawatomi deed 4,000 acres to Pierre St. Cosme, including all of today's Lincoln Park and Allen Park.
- 1906
The first neighborhoods are platted in what was then Ecorse Township.
- 1921
Lincoln Park incorporates as a village.
- 1925
Becomes a city, growing as a home for Ford Rouge workers.
- 1939
The post office, today's history museum, is dedicated on August 5.
07 / People
Famous names from here
- Preston Tucker the man behind the Tucker 48 grew up in Lincoln Park and joined its police force in 1922
- Bob Seger attended Lincoln Park High School for a time; the city named a day after him in 2017
Sources
Population and area are Census Bureau figures (Lincoln Park city).
- 2020 Census, Michigan (PL 94-171)
- Census Bureau population estimates: cities and towns
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Park,_Michigan
- wayne.migenweb.org/places/LincolnPark.html
- bridgemi.com/quality-life/honestly-how-many-places-are-named-after-abe-lincoln-in-michigan-a-lot
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_Point_Park
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC5
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Park_Post_Office
- citylp.com/279/Historical-Museum
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoltan_Sepeshy
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Seger
- citylp.com/255/Parks-Information
- waynecountymi.gov/Government/Departments/Economic-Development/Our-Communities/Lincoln-Park
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Tucker
- citylp.com
Change since 2020, per the Census Bureau estimate: −4.3 percent.
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