North Newark (ex Woodside twp.), southeastern Bloomfield & southern Belleville share an unincorporated area called Silver Lake. The entire area sits on the flat lakebed of glacial lake Watssessing. Silver Lake was the remnant Sunfish pond expanded by a dam in 1800s to create Silver Lake for ice harvesting.

When Newark annexed "old Woodsie" , Woodside was divided along the eastern shore of Silver Lake. Everything west including the lake itself, returned to Belleville. Woodside itself lasted only 2 years after succeeding from Belleville. It sought annexation to Newark after a rich prosperous expanding Newark agreed to cover its debt.

In 1889 the dam burst during a storm. That was the end of Silver Lake.

As whites moved out of Newark & Hispanic immigrants moved in, the white majority Belleville & Bloomfield got the US Census to shrink the boundaries of Silver Lake to exclude Newark. The Newark area was renamed "Stadium Section" (Now part of "Upper Roseville".

But many Newarkers aware of Newark history ain't going for that racist revisionism.

So Im glad it's called SILVER LAKE Hospital.

LOL at how when Newark decides to rename a street its "Newark is getting rid of history", but when White people try to change the historic boundary of a community to exclude minorities no one says that its destroying our history.

It's both nonsense.

Pretty much.

Oh definitely, but I do find it funny that those same people that petitioned the Feds to change the borders of a community are the same ones upset when a random street they are too afraid to step foot on gets its named changed even if the old functional name is still the primary name of the street

Definitely true.