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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 ...
213 North Franklin Street Greenville: August 15, 1975: Little Denmark Evangelical Lutheran Church: 1031 South Johnson Road (County Road 595) at intersection of Pakes Road Gowen vicinity February 26, 1985: Saint Paul's Episcopal Church: 305 South Clay Street, SE corner of Cass Street Greenville: January 23, 1992: Winter Inn† 100 North ...
Michigan's 20 largest inland lakes. This is a list of lakes in Michigan. The American state of Michigan borders four of the five Great Lakes. The number of inland lakes in Michigan depends on the minimum size. There are: 62,798 lakes ≥ 0.1 acres (0.00040 km 2) [1] 26,266 lakes ≥ 1.0 acre (0.0040 km 2) [1] 6,537 lakes ≥ 10.0 acres (0.040 ...
Orsel McGhee was born in 1901 in Eutaw, Alabama. Orsel moved to Detroit in the 1920s and married Doree Diffay in 1925. The couple had two children, but Doree died in 1937. Orsel worked at the National Bank of Detroit before becoming a custodian at the Detroit Free Press. He eventually became superintendent of the maintenance crew and worked ...
The Flat River (Ottawa: Quabahquasha, "Winding Stream" [2] [3]) is a tributary of the Grand River in the western part of the U.S. state of Michigan.It rises as the outflow of First Lake, the last in a chain of geographically close, connected lakes known as Six Lakes in Belvidere Township, west of Edmore in Montcalm County.
Over its history the lodge has met in many different locations, from a rustic fort blockhouse (1764), to the private residences of Worshipful Master James Donaldson [3] (1794), Bro. James McDonnell (1802), [4] or Bro. John Palmer (1807), [5] and then to Detroit's first purpose built Masonic building (1896) located at First St. and Lafayette ...
The street was populated by prosperous attorneys, physicians, dentists, architects, and other professionals. [5] Construction continued into the 1880s. [6] The street remained a prime residential location in Detroit for decades. In the 1930s, the Great Depression led to a decline in the neighborhood. [4]
The Dry Dock Complex consists of six interconnected buildings located at 1801–1803 Atwater Street in Detroit, Michigan, as well as the remains of a nearby dry dock at 1900 Atwater Street. The 1801-1803 Atwater complex is also known as the Globe Trading Company Building , and in 2015 was opened by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources ...