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Berkley is intersected by 12 Mile Road and Coolidge Highway, and though no Interstates run through the city, Interstate 75 and Interstate 696 are major thoroughfares near the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.62 square miles (6.79 km 2), all land. [22] United States Post Office, Berkley MI
Royal Oak Township was established in 1833 as a regular, 36-square-mile (93 km 2) civil township, and at one time consisted of all or parts of the following modern cities: Hazel Park, Ferndale, Oak Park, Madison Heights, Pleasant Ridge, Huntington Woods, Royal Oak, Berkley, and Clawson. The township began to shrink beginning in 1921 with the ...
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Oxford Township was not officially created until after Michigan became a state in 1837. It was originally part of Oakland Township, as were Addison Township and Orion Township; Oxford Township was split away and separately organized in 1837. The 1830s saw an influx of settlers to the area, originally known as Demingsburgh, Demings Corners, and ...
Simon Properties, which owns the 1.3-million-square-foot Oxford Valley Mall, and township officials hope the apartment project will revive the mall, built in 1973 and once one of the largest in ...
Oxford is a village in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,436 at the 2010 census . The village is located within Oxford Township . [ 4 ]
Oak Park is adjacent to the cities of Detroit to the south, Southfield to the west, Pleasant Ridge, Ferndale, and Royal Oak Township to the east, Huntington Woods to the northeast, and Berkley to the north. Oak Park is bordered to the south by 8 Mile Road (M-102), to the north by 11 Mile Road, to the Northeast by Coolidge Highway and 10 Mile ...
Royal Oak was named in 1819, during one of the surveying expeditions led by Territorial Governor Lewis Cass.A large oak tree at this small settlement reminded Cass of the story of the Royal Oak, where King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland hid to escape capture by the Roundheads after the Battle of Worcester, so he chose that name for the settlement.