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Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
The plant was used as an engineering design facility from 1930–1956; [20] during World War II, the factory produced Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Planes, Vought F4U Corsair Shipboard Fighters, and some assemblies for B-25 Mitchell bombers. [19] After 1956, the plant was used to build Cadillac limousine bodies; GM closed the plant in 1984. [19]
The station served as the police station for the Detroit Police Department's sixth police precinct for over 56 years, covering a portion of Southwest Detroit neighborhoods from 1930 until 1986. It served another 19 years (from 1986 until 2005) as Gang Squad Headquarters for the Detroit Special Crimes Section. The building was abandoned from ...
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The Detroit Historical Society (DHS) was founded in December 1921 with prominent Detroit historian Clarence M. Burton, its first president. Initially, a literary society bent on studying and discussing Detroit history, its direction changed in 1927 when under the leadership of one of the DHS directors, J. Bell Moran, the Society founded the ...
Aerial photo of Detroit taken around 1932. After the 1928 presidential campaign of Catholic Al Smith, the Democrats mobilize large number of Polish and other Catholic ethnics to make their comeback. Although the election for mayor was nonpartisan, the Democrats rallied behind Judge Frank Murphy, who served as mayor 1930–33.
In June 2018, Amazon's The Grand Tour filmed their first episode of Season 3 in Detroit which prominently showed the Packard Plant; the episode debuted on January 18, 2019. [30] On January 23, 2019, the E. Grand Boulevard bridge collapsed with no injuries reported. [31] In February 2019 a section of the plant owned by the city of Detroit was ...