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Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada. The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area.
Scott was left a sizable fortune by his father who invested in Detroit real estate. [2] According to contemporaries, Scott gambled and told off-color stories. He was described by twentieth-century author W. Hawkins Ferry as a "vindictive, scurrilous misanthrope" [3] who attempted to intimidate his business competitors and when this was unsuccessful, he filed suit.
The prosperity of the city in the time after the Civil War allowed Detroit to develop a municipal water system, using water from the Detroit River. [5] In 1868, the city began developing Water Works Park, on Jefferson Avenue near at the foot of Cadillac Boulevard. The main function of the site was to provide water to the municipal system, but ...
As of January 1, 2016, under the terms of the City of Detroit's municipal bankruptcy the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) was created with a $50 million annual lease agreement to the City of Detroit for 40 years, while the DWSD bifurcated to focus its services specifically on the water and sewer customers within only the city of Detroit. [2]
John J. Bagley was the 16th governor of Michigan, serving from 1873 to 1877. [4] Bagley also served as a Detroit Alderman from 1860 to 1861 and as Police Commissioner from 1865 to 1872. He was instrumental in the creation of the Detroit Metropolitan Police Commission and the construction of the first Detroit House of Corrections. [4]
The Charles C. Trowbridge House is located at 1380 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It is the oldest documented building in the city of Detroit; [ 3 ] it was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 [ 2 ] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
A fake obituary was posted for Slim Shady ahead of Eminem's upcoming 12th LP scheduled to be released this summer, “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce).”
City of Muskegon; Little Muskegon River; Muskegon River; Muskegon Lake; Newaygo County – named either for an Ojibwe leader who signed the Saginaw Treaty of 1819 or for an Ojibwe word meaning "much water". City of Newaygo; Ogemaw County – Ojibwe word "ogimaa" meaning "chief". [28] Township of Ogemaw; Village of Ogemaw Springs