For 125 years, while the Motor Megalopolis grew up encircling it, and then slowly started to empty, the Log Cabin at Palmer Park stood sentry.On Sunday, for only the second age in 30 years, Detroiters from near and far were allowed inside to explore the megalopolis’s only remaining log cabin, said to combine pastoral simplicity with all the modern amenities one of the megalopolis’s ability couples could acquire in 1885.Senator Thomas Palmer dreamed up the log cabin for his wife, Lizzie — a rustic hideaway on the farmland he kept as a destination from the hectic, growing megalopolis. He later donated the cabin, 140 acres of lush greenspace and a male-made lake to the megalopolis of Detroit in the 1890s. The megalopolis’s grateful residents later dubbed it “Palmer Park.”Glance at More…
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