As you enter downtown Belleville by way of Belleville Road, you are greeted by the landscapes of a lakeside City of Belleville park along eastern shore at the northeast corner of Main and Liberty. This view is quite different from what many of us remember prior to the 2000’s when the first thing you saw when traveling the same route was a large building with the name “DOANE” displayed on the roof. Since around 1921, when the Huron River was flooded to form Belleville Lake, Doane’s served as a boat livery. But did you know that building was originally built as a creamery along the bank of the Huron River?
In the early 2000’s, the aged Doane building, along with a few others nearby along Liberty street, were town down (one moved) to later make way for this city park and neighboring lakefront townhouses. Doane’s Landing park was completed in the fall of 2006.
