Editing Belleville, Michigan (section)

==Arts and culture==
===Festivals===
Belleville hosts an annual festival, called the [[National Strawberry Festival]]. The Strawberry Festival generates considerable media coverage. People from all over Wayne County come to celebrate Belleville's economic supporter, the strawberry.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Kyla |date= June 17, 2016 |title=Fest in Belleville has strawberries at tart |url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2016/06/17/fest-belleville-strawberries-tart/86037772/ |newspaper=[[The Detroit News]] |location= [[Detroit]] |access-date= June 18, 2016}}</ref>

===Points of interest===
In the 1930s, Belleville had a reputation as a resort community where the wealthy of Detroit maintained getaway estates. [[Henry Ford]] and [[Charles Lindbergh]] once owned summer cottages on Belleville Lake, in the neighborhood of Harmony Lane.{{Citation needed|date=December 2014}}

===Music===
Techno music produced in the mid-to-late 1980s by [[Juan Atkins]], [[Derrick May (musician)|Derrick May]], and [[Kevin Saunderson]] (collectively known as [[The Belleville Three]]), along with [[Eddie Fowlkes]], [[Blake Baxter]], [[James Pennington]] and others is viewed as the ''first wave'' of techno from Detroit.<ref>{{cite news |last=McCollum |first=Brian |date=May 28, 2017 |title=Detroit techno pioneers come full circle with joint Belleville Three project |url=http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/05/28/belleville-three-movement-festival-detroit/351558001/ |access-date=May 29, 2017 |work=[[The Detroit News]] |location=}}</ref>

===Education===
Belleville is in the [[Van Buren Public Schools]] district. [[Belleville High School (Michigan)|Belleville High School]], Owen Intermediate, and Edgemont Elementary are located within the city limits of Belleville.

===Sister city===
The city is [[Sister city|twinned]] with [[Machynlleth]], [[Wales]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 1972 |title=Sister Cities By State And By Countries In Other Nations As Of June, 1972 |url=https://utdr.utoledo.edu/islandora/object/utoledo%3A1628 |publisher=Town Affiliation Association of the United States |via=University of Toledo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Owens |first=David |date=2021-08-15 |title=How the birthplace of techno came to be twinned with a Welsh market town |url=https://nation.cymru/culture/how-the-birthplace-of-techno-came-to-be-twinned-with-a-welsh-market-town/ |access-date=2024-02-28 |work=[[Nation.Cymru]]}}</ref>