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Lifelong local resident shares historical memories Celestine Young has a hunch that he may be Macomb Township’s longest residing person. Young is 94 and has lived in the township all of his life. Photo by Alex Szwarc That’s saying something, considering he celebrated his 94th birthday in June. For nearly one century, Young has resided in the area of 21 Mile Road and North Avenue. Born in 1926 in his family’s farmhouse, Young now lives just steps away from it, in a home he built in 1954. Young estimates his parents made the move north to Macomb Township from Detroit in the early 1920s, after his older brother was born in 1919. His father worked as a farmer. ....