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5 unusual facts about Grosse Ile


Gregory Loselle

He teaches secondary English and Art History in the Grosse Ile, Michigan (US) schools.

Grosse Ile

Grosse Isle, Quebec, an island where many Irish Immigrants to Canada were housed and the site of the Grosse Isle Disaster

Grosse-Île, Quebec, one of two municipalities forming the urban agglomeration of Îles-de-la-Madeleine in Quebec, Canada

National Register of Historic Places listings in Wayne County, Michigan

Grosse Ile, near the southern tip of Wayne County, is a historically wealthy island community.

William Ellsworth Kepner

In August 1929 he was commissioned as test pilot of the radical metal-hulled airship ZMC-2, newly completed at Grosse Ile, Michigan.


Roy Halliday

His air training took place in the United States (still formally neutral at that time) at the naval air station at Grosse Ile, near Detroit and at Pensacola, Florida.

VMFA-251

Thirteen months later on July 1, 1946, VMF-251 was reactivated at Grosse Ile, Michigan as a ready-reserve squadron.


see also

Elizabeth Denison

Lisette Denison Forth, freed slave who funded the construction of Grosse Ile, Michigan's St. James Episcopal Church

Grosse Ile High School

Grosse Ile High School (often abbreviated GIHS) is a public high school located in Grosse Ile Township, Michigan serving ninth through twelfth grades.

Grosse Isle, Quebec

Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site were twinned on May 25, 1998, with the Famine Museum in Strokestown, Ireland.