It’s been a couple of days since this was printed, but you shouldn’t miss Adam Bennett’s article about the demolition of the old paper plant on the site of the River Raisin Battlefield.

http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070526/NEWS01/105260029/-1/NEWS 

This is a VERY important event for Monroe’s visual appearance.  But it is even more important in terms of Monroe’s trail and recreational development.  One day, we’ll be able to walk from the Navarre Anderson trading post with its bullet holes, past the old Custer family house on N. Custer, through Veteran’s Park and its war memorials, up past the Custer Statue, to the battlefield and out to the lake, where, with some binoculars, you can sometimes just about see the site of the Battle of Lake Erie.

It would be a compelling military history trail, especially with some spur routes to the Kentucky soldiers monument, some of the local cemetaries and and the Heck Park Vietnam Memorial.

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