It developed as a bedroom community, providing homes to workers in the nearby steel mills and automobile plants of the Detroit area, while having no industries of its own.

Lincoln Park was originally part of the now-defunct Ecorse Township, incorporating as a village in 1921 and again as a city in 1925.

Long before Lincoln Park was incorporated as a city, an area along the Ecorse River was the site of a pivotal meeting during Pontiac's Rebellion.

On April 27, 1763, a council of several American Indian tribes from the Detroit region listened to a speech from the Ottawa leader Pontiac.

Pontiac urged the listeners to join him in a surprise attack on the British Fort Detroit, which they attempted on May 9.

Today, the area is known as Council Point Park, and a small engraved boulder marks the site of the historic meeting.

During the 20th century, Lincoln Park grew as a bedroom community for the numerous workers at Henry Ford's River Rouge Plant and other mills and factories of the auto industry.

Among Lincoln Park's minor claims to fame is that it was the home of the members of the seminal punk rock group MC5 in the 1960s.

The band was rumored to have evolved out of the group's habit of listening to music from a car radio in the parking lot of the local White Castle restaurant in the small downtown area.

Gary Grimshaw, a noted rock concert poster artist, grew up in Lincoln Park at the same time.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.89 square miles (15.26 km2), all land.

[5] The north and south branches of the Ecorse River run through Lincoln Park and join just before leaving the city.