Detroit Free Press , July 3, 1893 As was the case with most small towns looking for a leg-up in the booming industrial age, plans were afoot in Romulus in the 1890s to make it a manufacturing hub. Being conveniently located at the crossing of the Wabash Railroad and the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad it made perfect sense for the time. As such, the Romulus Land Syndicate of Detroit, which had already lured such manufacturers as the J. M. Hommel Mfg. Co., The Romulus Knitting Mills, The Seestedt Furniture Co. and the Columbian Wire Works. Seestadt, having formerly been located in Wayne, needed an upgrade in their growing business and chose Romulus. On July 4, 1893 the Romulus Land Syndicate renting a train an offered a free expedition from the New Union Depot in Detroit to the burgeoning town 13 miles to the west. The only exclusions were children because they meant business, I suppose. Not a solitary event the land syndicate seemingly did this annually for a few years.