Belle Isle Park - Prohibition-era rumrunning landing area

During Prohibition (1920–1933), bootleggers and rumrunners used points along the Detroit River and Belle Isle as landing sites for smuggled liquor from Canada; contemporary newspaper reports and law-enforcement accounts document smuggling activity in the Belle Isle area. The island's river access and proximity to Windsor made it part of the broader Detroit–Windsor smuggling network. Historians cite Belle Isle among multiple Detroit riverfront locations associated with cross-river illicit trade in that era.