[3] After complaining to other institutions in the nation, the Board of Superiors recommended that a bond issue of $1,000,000 be authorized to construct the school.
[1] William H. Maybury, who previously invested in numerous projects in the surrounding community, actively supported and funded the school's construction.
[9] The school was used to enforce the state's eugenics law, though fewer forced sterilizations took place in Wayne County.
[10] From 1930 to 1934, 14 boys and 47 girls institutionalized at the Wayne County Training School were ‘rendered incapable of passing on their defects to a new generation’.
The Wayne County Training School could have held 500 inmates, though renovations and furnishings would have cost up to 2 million alone.
[citation needed] For a brief period after the institution was shut down, a few buildings were used by Northville Township for offices as well as a police station.
[citation needed] Adjacent grounds were used as fields for Northville youth soccer programs until their sale to developers in 1998.