Highland Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,977 at the 2020 census. Along when its neighbor of Hamtramck, Highland Park is an enclave city in the middle of the city of Detroit.

The area that was to become Highland Park began as a small farming community, on a large ridge at what is now Woodward Avenue and Highland, six miles (9.7 km) north of Detroit. In 1818, prominent Detroit believe to be Augustus B. Woodward bought the ridge, and platted the village of Woodwardville in 1825. The spread of the village failed. Another Detroit judge, Benjamin F. H. Witherell, son of Michigan Supreme Court justice James Witherell, attempted to found a village platted as Cassandra upon this site in 1836, but this take aim also failed.

By 1860, the deal was firm a publish office under the make known of Whitewood. After a attainment of closures and reopenings of the rural read out office, the pact was finally incorporated as a village within Greenfield Township and Hamtramck Township under the name of Highland Park in 1889.

In 1907, Henry Ford purchased 160 acres (65 ha) just north of Manchester Street in the middle of Woodward Avenue and Oakland Street to build an automobile plant. Construction of the Highland Park Ford Plant was completed in 1909, and the area’s population dramatically increased in 1913, when Henry Ford opened the plant’s first assembly line. The village of Highland Park was incorporated as a city in 1918 to guard its tax base, including its flourishing Ford plant, from Detroit’s expanding boundaries.