Editing Inkster, Michigan (section)

== History ==
The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans. It was settled by non-indigenous people in 1825. A post office named "Moulin Rouge" was established there in December 1857. Robert Inkster, a [[Scottish American|Scotsman]] born March 27, 1828, in [[Lerwick]], [[Shetland]],<ref>{{cite web | title = City of Inkster, Wayne County, Michigan | work = Michigan American Local History Network | url = http://www.geocities.com/michhist/inkster.html | access-date =November 21, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050217033547/http://www.geocities.com/michhist/inkster.html|archive-date=February 17, 2005}}</ref> operated a steam [[sawmill]] on present-day Inkster Road near Michigan Avenue in the early 1860s.

The post office was renamed "Inkster" in July 1863. The village had a station on the [[Michigan Central Railroad]] by 1878. It incorporated as a village in 1926 from parts of [[Nankin Township, Michigan|Nankin Township]] and [[Dearborn Heights|Dearborn Township]]. After much legal wrangling by the city of [[Dearborn, Michigan|Dearborn]], Dearborn Township, and the village of Inkster to sort out final borders for these communities, Inkster was incorporated as a city in 1964.<ref>{{cite web|title=History |url=http://www.dearbornarealiving.com/history.shtml |work=DearbornAreaLiving.com |access-date=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070721023200/http://www.dearbornarealiving.com/history.shtml |archive-date=July 21, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="Romig">{{cite book | last = Romig | first = Walter | year = 1986 | title = Michigan Place Names | orig-year= 1973 | publisher = Wayne State University Press | location = Detroit, Michigan | isbn = 0-8143-1838-X}}</ref>

In the 1920s and 1930s, African-Americans working in [[Henry Ford]]'s Dearborn factories settled in Inkster, as it was closer to their work than Detroit, while they were not allowed to live in Dearborn itself.<ref>Binelli, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YlLyr7hX25IC&pg=PA25 25]. "The blacks working at the Rouge didn't necessarily want to commute all the way from Detroit but they weren't welcome in Dearborn, so they began settling in the regrettably named suburb of Inkster (which in fact commemorates an early Scottish settler, Robert Inkster)."</ref>

As a result of the police beating of [[Floyd Dent]] in January 2015, which was caught on a police vehicle's dash cam and released to the public, the victim was awarded $1.4 million.  A special assessment of Inkster residents will pay for the settlement, on their July 1, 2015, property tax bill.<ref>myFOXDetroit.com staff [http://wn.ktvu.com/story/29215991/floyd-dent-settlement-to-be-paid-by-inkster-residents] "Floyd Dent settlement to be paid by Inkster residents"</ref>