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This created many more jobs for African Americans in the city of Detroit as a lot of working men went off to war. 1918 1918 influenza epidemic. WW1 ends; 1919 - Orchestra Hall opens. 1920: Detroit becomes the 4th largest city in America; 1920s: All throughout the 1920s, patterns arose of whites beginning to define black neighborhoods by race.
Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or Fort Detroit (1701–1796) was a French and later British fortification established in 1701 on the north side of the Detroit River by Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac. A settlement based on the fur trade, farming and missionary work slowly developed in the area.
1950 Detroit was the 4th largest city in the U.S., with 1.8 million people. 1957 The five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge opened on November 1. 1959 Motown began recording music in Detroit. 1960 Census results revealed a 1.45 million increase in state population, the largest in state history. 1967 Race riots struck the city of Detroit. After five ...
Detroit, the largest city in the state of Michigan, was settled in 1701 by French colonists. It is the first European settlement above tidewater in North America. [1] Founded as a New France fur trading post, it began to expand during the 19th century with U.S. settlement around the Great Lakes. By 1920, based on the booming auto industry and ...
The 1796 map illustrates ribbon farms flanking Fort Detroit (center, above Detroit River) and across the river at what is now Windsor, Canada. The ribbon farm concept originated with Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac's founding of the fort, first called Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, in July 1701.
Today’s Free Press Flashback recounts an extended visit to Detroit by Billy Sunday, America’s best-known evangelist of the World War I era. The fire-breathing preacher who captivated Detroit ...
Fort Shelby was a military fort in Detroit, Michigan that played a significant role in the War of 1812 (1812-1815). It was built by the British Army in 1779 as Fort Lernoult, and was ceded to the United States by the terms of the Jay Treaty in 1796, following up on the original terms of the peace agreement of the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), 13 years ...
American troops retook Detroit in 1813 and Fort Mackinac was returned to the Americans at the end of the war in 1815. Over the 1810s, the indigenous Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi tribes increasingly decided to oppose white settlement and sided with the British against the U.S. government. Map of the original 13 colonies and their territories.