| Elizabeth Park | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:ElizabethParkEntrance_(2020).jpg) Entrance to Elizabeth Park | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:OSM_Humanitarian_map,_Wayne_County,_Michigan.png)  Location within the state of Michigan &sq=&lang=&file=File:Relief_map_of_USA_Michigan.png) Elizabeth Park (Michigan) (Michigan) | |
| Location | 4250 Elizabeth Drive Trenton, Michigan |
| Coordinates | 42°07′56″N 83°10′49″W / 42.13222°N 83.18028°W |
| Area | 162 acres (65.6 ha) |
| Created | 1919 |
| Administered by | Wayne County Park System |
Elizabeth Park is a county-owned public park in southeast Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.[1] The park is located in the city of Trenton along West Jefferson Avenue and the Detroit River just north of the Wayne County Bridge leading to Grosse Ile. Under private ownership until it was given to the county in 1919, Elizabeth Park is recognized as the first county park established in the state of Michigan.[2][3]
The park is located mostly on an artificial island historically called Slocum's Island.[4] The island is separated from the mainland by a narrow canal. While Elizabeth Park occupies the northern portion of Slocum's Island, the Trenton Channel Power Plant occupies the portion south of the Grosse Ile Parkway.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Elizabeth Park
- ^ Wayne County Department of Public Services (2020). "Elizabeth Park". Retrieved December 23, 2020.
- ^ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2008). "Elizabeth South Shore Riverwalk". Retrieved March 16, 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Romig, Walter (October 1, 1986) [1973]. Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities (Paperback). Great Lakes Books Series. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press. p. 519. ISBN 978-0-8143-1838-6.