Tucked on a street east of Riverside Park in southwest Detroit, on the bank of the Detroit River south of the Ambassador Bridge, you’ll find the small gray building of The J.W. Westcott Company.
If you’re not familiar, the company is known for its official U.S. Postal Service mail boat, a floating post office with its own zip code: 48222.
The world’s first non-military floating postal zip code.
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A seabird typically found along North American ocean shores has made the Detroit River shipping channel its home for the past two weeks. Which has delighted birders, nature lovers, and photographers in our area, including me! I found the rare Black-legged Kittiwake quickly as it foraged for food in a small cove east of the… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Black-legged Kittiwake in Southeast Michigan!
Finally after two years, the John D. Dingell Jr. Visitor Center at the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Trenton, Michigan officially opened to the public this past week.
Due to the COVID pandemic, the outside areas at the refuge were opened to the public in late 2020, but the visitor center had been closed.
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