Several weeks ago, I posted a link to a site listing Michigan’s ghost towns.  Rawsonville, apparently, was flooded by the damming of the Huron River and sits at the bottom of Belleville Lake.

Another city, Ypsilanti’s Flats, apparently is located at the bottom of Ford Lake.  Ford Lake is the body of water that can be seen from I-94 on the way to Metro Airport from Ann Arbor.

Ann Arbor News excerpts and link:

In years past south of the city of Ypsilanti was an area called the Flats. It was an open plain of land with the Huron River running through it from west to east. Running through the flats from north to south was Tuttle Hill Road.

By the 1880s, Tuttle Hill Road was one of the most traveled thoroughfares leading into Ypsilanti. A new bridge was built over the Huron on Tuttle Hill Road in 1885.

No one has driven over the bridge in years, but it is still there on the flats. A dam was built on the Huron River in 1930, causing the water to flood the flats and become what is now Ford Lake. For two years the trestle work stood out of the water until winter ice pushed the bridge over to one side. There, on the bottom of Ford Lake, is where it rests today.

http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/07/an_old_bridge_rests_under_wate.html

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