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Palmer Park is a 296-acre (120 ha) public park in Detroit Michigan’s Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District. It is named for U.S. Senator Thomas Witherell Palmer who initially created the park when he donated 140-acre (57 ha) for a city park in 1893 on the condition that the virgin forest be preserved. The park includes a historic log cabin a public golf course tennis courts hiking and biking trails and a large pond known as Lake Frances.
