by
James Jeffrey Tong, Dr. Susan Richardson, Hon. Steve Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Once a forbidding area of swamps and forests, Berkley was uninhabited until the early 19th century. In 1924, the Detroit News disparaged the "frontier community" and wrote that it "resembles a settlement in the oil waste of Wyoming." Still, forward-thinking residents thought Berkley had a bright future....