Wayne

On May 10, 1825, Marcus Swift, from Palmyra, New York, bought the northwest quarter of Section 11 in Nankin Township from the United...

In 1796, when the United States occupied Michigan, there existed many conflicting land claims along the Detroit and Rouge Rivers.

Detroit, MI

This was the location of the Algiers Motel and its Manor House annex at the time of the 1967 Detroit Uprising.

Detroit, MI

Built about 1918, this Neoclassical-style structure houses Gamma Lambda Chapter, third graduate chapter of the first black national Greek...

Wyandotte, MI

Eber B. Ward, pioneer industrialist in many fields, built the Eureka Iron Works in Wyandotte in 1854.

Detroit, MI

The American Academy of Pediatrics was founded on June 24, 1930, by thirty-four physicians at Harper Hospital.

Grosse Ile, MI

Angus Keith (1819-1899), a Great Lakes steamship captain, was born on Grosse Ile.

Westland, MI

During World War II Detroit's black population doubled from 150,000 to 300,000 and faced the extreme housing shortage that had existed...

Detroit, MI

The origins of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church can be traced to 1830, when German immigrants first arrived in...

Detroit, MI

On July 4, 1926, Pastor John Seth Bailey (1896-1984) founded the McKinley Avenue Church of God in Christ.

Gibraltar, MI

In this vicinity on August 5, 1812, six weeks after the outbreak of war, an Indian force, led by the famous Shawnee chief Tecumseh,...

Trenton, MI

On August 9, 1812, Lieut. Col. James Miller and a force of about 600 American regulars and militia moved down Hull´s Trace in an attempt...

Detroit, MI

This island, a jewel in the hearts of Detroiters, has provided shining memories for visitors of all ages.

Detroit, MI

Kiwanis International, one of the great service organizations of the world, had its origin on January 21, 1915.

Detroit, MI

Under Secretary-General of the United Nations for the final sixteen years of his life, Ralph Bunche, grandson of a slave, was born in...

Detroit, MI

This marker commemorates the birthplace of the Ford Motor car.

Detroit, MI

Constructed in 1941, the Birwood Wall divided the existing Black community in the Eight Mile-Wyoming area from Blackstone Park, a newly...

Detroit, MI

This Tudor Revival residence was constructed in the mid-1920s.

Detroit, MI

Between 1910 and 1940 Detroit’s African American population increased dramatically.

Detroit, MI

This monumental structure typifies Richardsonian Romanesque ecclesiastic architecture.

Detroit, MI

In 1824 the Reverend Richard Cadle led the founding of St. Paul's Church, the first Episcopal church in Michigan.

Detroit, MI

The Detroit firm George D. Mason and Company designed this building for the Disciples of Christ in 1927.

Detroit, MI

During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the British took Canada from France and with it possession of French forts in the western...

Detroit, MI

Alexander Chapoton built this Queen Anne-style townhouse in the early 1870s.

Detroit, MI

Detroit industrialist Charles Lang Freer prospered primarily as a railroad car manufacturer.

Canton, MI

When this pioneer church was organized in 1834, it was one of ten served by circuit rider Marcus Swift of the Detroit Methodist Conference.

Detroit, MI

The Great Sauk Trail, the most important Indian trail in the Great Lakes region, was used later by French explorers, fur traders,...

Westland, MI

Chief Tonquish and his son are buried nearby.

Grosse Pte Woods, MI

On May 18, 1836, following a cholera epidemic, thirteen civic-minded women met at the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church and founded the...

Detroit, MI

On June 6, 1925, the Chrysler Corporation was founded here after a reorganization of the Maxwell and Chalmers automotive companies by...

Detroit, MI

The Annunciation (Evangelismos) Greek Orthodox Church was founded in 1910.

Livonia, MI

The Clarenceville School District originated as Fractional School District No. 5 in 1837 and served the children of present-day Livonia,...

Grosse Ile, MI

Colonel Thornton Fleming Brodhead (1822-1862) and his wife, Archange Macomb Abbott, lived on the hill just north of this site.

Hamtramck, MI

John Francis Hamtramck was a native of Canada who dedicated his life to the new American nation.

Dearborn, MI

This building was one of eleven built in 1833 for the United States Detroit Arsenal at Dearbornville.

Detroit, MI

Conant Gardens reflects black settlement in Detroit’s northeast side during the first of two large migrations of blacks to Detroit after...

Westland, MI

The first Cooper School, known officially as Nankin District No. 1 School, was built around 1837 on a farm owned by Gilbert Cooper at the...

Flat Rock, MI

In 1817 one of the oldest towns in this area was settled and named for local pioneer Michael Vreelandt of New York.

Detroit, MI

Cornelius Langston Henderson was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1887 to Rev. James and Cornelia Henderson.

On April 27, 1763, Obwandiyag, an Odawa who was also called Pontiac, assembled a council of warriors from various tribes near this site.

Detroit, MI

Here stood the home of an eminent Detroit Negro who distinguished himself as a lawyer, politician, and writer.

Detroit, MI

David Dunbar Buick, for whom the Buick automobile is named, came to Detroit from Scotland with his parents in 1856 at age two.

Detroit, MI

Opened in 1915, this building was named for David Whitney, Jr. (1830-1900), a Detroit lumber, real estate and shipping magnate.

Dearborn, MI

This municipal building opened on June 26, 1922, as the seat of government for the village of Springwells, which became a city in 1924,...

In 1921 Rural Agricultural District No. 1 consolidated five fractional districts, bringing together students who previously met in five...

Detroit, MI

The Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs was organized on April 8, 1921, with eight clubs.

Detroit, MI

Established in 1891, the Detroit College of Law was the first law school in the Detroit area and the second one in Michigan.

Detroit, MI

On this site, once owned by Christian Buhl—alderman, city mayor, police commissioner and banker—stands the former office of the Detroit...

Detroit, MI

This limestone structure was built for the Detroit Free Press in 1925.

Detroit, MI

In July 1967 the civil unrest that had been spreading across the United States reached Detroit.

Detroit, MI

In 1845 the Daughters of Charity founded St. Vincent’s Hospital, the first in Michigan.

Detroit, MI

The office of the Plaindealer, Detroit’s first successful black newspaper, was located on this site.

Detroit, MI

The Detroit Urban League began in 1916 with Forrester B. Washington as executive director, and Henry G. Stevens as president.

Hamtramck, MI

John (1864-1920) and Horace (1868-1920) Dodge grew up in Niles, Michigan.

Detroit, MI

Duane Doty School opened its doors in the fall of 1909.

Detroit, MI

At the time of World War I, health care for black Detroiters was inferior to that available for whites.

Detroit, MI

Detroit was founded July 24, 1701, by Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, who landed in this vicinity on that date.

Detroit, MI

Albert Kahn designed this school in the Arts and Crafts style in 1913.

Grosse Ile, MI

From 1787 until about 1840 a horse-driven gristmill occupied the triangle of land north of Horsemill Road bounded by the river and...

Detroit, MI

Elijah McCoy, the noted black inventor, lived on this site for much of his adult life.

Detroit, MI

In 1846 when this was a farm on the outskirts of Detroit, a group of gentlemen formed a corporation and purchased the land for use as a...

Westland, MI

In 1839 Wayne County purchased the Black Horse Tavern, a stagecoach stop, located here on the Chicago Road, for use as a poorhouse.

Detroit, MI

Fannie Richards, Detroit’s first black public school teacher, lived on this site.

Detroit, MI

Across the street from here, Seymour Finney (1813-1899) operated one of the principal safe places for the Underground Railroad when...

Wayne, MI

On August 20, 1848, the Reverend James S. Kidder and nine members chartered the First Congregational Church of Wayne.

Detroit, MI

In 1801 David Bacon and his wife Alice made the first attempt to establish Congregationalism in Detroit.

Detroit, MI

Near this site in 1850, a small group of German-Jewish immigrants gathered at the home of Isaac and Sarah Cozens and formed the Beth El...

Detroit, MI

The First Michigan Colored Regiment was organized at Camp Ward, which originally stood on this location.

Detroit, MI

This building is the fourth home of the First Presbyterian Church, the continuing congregation of the First Protestant Society of...

Northville, MI

In 1829 former members of the Farmington Church organized this church, originally named the First Presbyterian Society of Plymouth.

Detroit, MI

Perry W. McAdow and his wife, Clara, built this elaborate Victorian mansion in 1891.

Detroit, MI

The golden tower of the Fisher Building has brightened the skyline of metropolitan Detroit since 1928.

Detroit, MI

Among Detroit’s first skyscrapers, the nineteen-story Ford Building was built between 1907 and 1909.

Dearborn, MI

On March 7, 1932, in the midst of the depression, unemployed autoworkers, their families, and union organizers braved bitter cold...

Detroit, MI

Ford Motor Company was incorporated as an automobile manufacturer on June 16, 1903.

Detroit, MI

Completed in 1904, the Piquette Avenue Plant was the first factory built by the Ford Motor Company.

Dearborn, MI

Henry Ford began construction of this complex on the banks of the River Rouge in April 1917.

Dearborn, MI

When it was dedicated on March 22, 1928, Fordson High School was hailed as “one of the finest school buildings in the United States.

Detroit, MI

This marks the site of the southwest bastion of Fort Lernoult.

Detroit, MI

The first permanent French settlement in the Detroit region was built on this site in 1701.

Detroit, MI

Second Presbyterian Church was organized in 1849 by the Reverend Robert K. Kellogg and twenty-six charter members.

Detroit, MI

No hostile shots have ever been fired from this star-shaped fort built in the 1840s to guard against a British invasion from Canada which...

Encouraged by a potential alliance with the English, the Fox Indians besieged Fort Pontchartrain, Detroit, in 1712.

Detroit, MI

In the home of William Webb, two hundred feet north of this spot, two famous Americans met several Detroit Negro residents on March 12,...

Detroit, MI

George De Baptiste, a long-time Mason, and one of Detroit’s most active and impassioned black community leaders, lived on this site...

Detroit, MI

Fleeing political unrest in their homeland, Germans began arriving in Detroit during the 1830s.

Detroit, MI

Founded in 1881 by the Reverend John Wills, this is Detroit’s second-oldest African-American Baptist congregation.

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

Completed in 1928, this Neo-Georgian school, with its 134-foot-tall clock tower, is reminiscent of eighteenth-century buildings like...

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

Owned by the Religious of the Sacred Heart from 1867 to 1969, this site is now an independent school.

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

In 1893 summer residents organized the Grosse Pointe Water Company.

Hamtramck, MI

When the Negro National League was founded in 1920, one of its eight charter teams was the Detroit Stars, who played at Mack Park on...

Detroit, MI

The Hartford Memorial congregation was the first African American church on Detroit’s west side.

Dearborn, MI

At this intersection stood the home in which Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863.

Detroit, MI

Henry and Clara Ford lived here from 1908 to 1915.

Henry Ford and Clara Bryant were married on April 11, 1888.

The Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant was built between 1909 and 1920 on the lot bounded by Woodward, Manchester and Oakland...

Detroit, MI

This structure was completed in 1917 for the First Church of Christ, Scientist.

Detroit, MI

In the early twentieth century immigrants from southern Italy and Sicily settled in Detroit’s northeast side.

Brownstown Charter Township, MI

In April 1812, as the United States prepared for a possible war with Great Britain, Michigan Territorial Governor William Hull, became...

Detroit, MI

Abraham Cook purchased the area, now known as Indian Village, from two French farmers, Gabriel St. Aubin and Francois Rivard, during the...

Detroit, MI

The International Institute of Detroit was founded by the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in 1919.

Detroit, MI

Circus entrepreneur James A. McGinnis was born near this site on July 4, 1847.

Detroit, MI

Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church was founded in 1854 when the growing First Presbyterian Church divided into three congregations.

Detroit, MI

Built around 1880, this structure originally housed a shoe and grocery store.

Wayne, MI

In 1824 George M. Johnson purchased eight acres of land from the government and erected a log tavern at this location, a day’s journey...

Livonia, MI

In 1824 Joshua Simmons of Bristol, New York, obtained a patent from the federal government for 160 acres of land in Livonia Township.

Detroit, MI

Founded by a group of ten Black students at Indiana University, Kappa Alpha Psi was originally called Kappa Alpha Nu.

Detroit, MI

After founding Detroit in 1701, the Sieur de Cadillac divided the land northeast of Fort Pontchartrain into long, narrow “ribbon” farms...

Detroit, MI

This Colonial Revival structure was built in 1910 for James F. Murphy, treasurer of the Murphy Chair Company and a future director of the...

The 1938 Lincoln Park Post Office was the first non-branch post office in this Detroit suburb.

Livonia, MI

This marker commemorates three American Revolutionary War soldiers who lived and died in Livonia.

Detroit, MI

This 1895 Queen Anne-style house, designed by Malcomson and Higginbotham, was the home of David Mackenzie.

Grosse Ile, MI

Here, on high ground near the aged maple, an identification point in old surveys, stood the Mansion House built by William Macomb in...

Detroit, MI

This site bears the name of Father Martin Kundig, Wayne County’s first superintendent of the poor.

Romulus, MI

Constructed in 1846, this Greek Revival residence was erected just nineteen years after Romulus was first settled.

Detroit, MI

In the late 1910s and early 1920s Detroit became a hub for Mexican and Tejano migration.

Wyandotte, MI

On October 17, 1890, Captain John Baptiste Ford (1811-1903) purchased this property along the Detroit River.

Detroit, MI

America’s first state fair, conducted by the Michigan Agricultural Society with the support of the legislature and local citizens, was...

Detroit, MI

Beth El, the first Jewish congregation in Michigan, was organized in Detroit on September 22, 1850, by twelve families.

Detroit, MI

At noon on September 22, 1823, citizens and dignitaries joined a Masonic procession to place the cornerstone for the capitol of the...

Grosse Ile, MI

This point marked the northeast corner of the stockade of a post that was maintained on Grosse Ile by the United States Army for a short...

Northville, MI

In 1827 John Miller built a gristmill on this site.

Detroit, MI

The “Motown Sound” was created on this site from 1959 to 1972.

Detroit, MI

Originally called the Wilson Theatre, this building was completed in 1928 with funds provided by Matilda Wilson (Mrs. Alfred G.).

Westland, MI

Two gristmills have occupied this site.

Westland, MI

In 1829 the Abel Patchin family migrated from New York State to Nankin Township and purchased eighty acres of land.

Detroit, MI

The Helping Hand Society, a local prayer group, established the New Bethel Baptist Church in March 1932.

Detroit, MI

In May 1963 a meeting here led to the founding of the Detroit Council for Human Rights with C. L. Franklin as chairman.

Livonia, MI

By 1834 there were two religious societies in Newburg, one Methodist and one Congregational.

Livonia, MI

An organization, later known as the Newburgh Cemetery Society, was formed on November 23, 1832, to establish and maintain this cemetery,...

Detroit, MI

North Woodward Avenue Congregational Church was built in stages between 1907 and 1929 in the Neo-Gothic style.

Westland, MI

In 1942, the National Housing Agency designed and built the Norwayne Subdivision to provide rental housing for nearby WWII defense...

Dearborn Heights, MI

In 1834 John (1790-1869) and Melinda Nowlin (1802-1873) moved with their five children from New York to the Michigan Territory.

Taylor, MI

Oak Grove is Taylor’s largest municipal cemetery.

Detroit, MI

For nearly a century this site on Campus Martius was the seat of Detroit’s city government.

Belleville, MI

Rawsonville, now a ghost town, was once a thriving village.

Belleville, MI

Van Buren Township was organized out of Huron Township by an act of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan in 1835.

Wayne, MI

Since 1878 the Old Wayne Village Hall has served as the center of civic affairs in Wayne.

Detroit, MI

This Victorian structure, built in the early 1890s, houses the Detroit chapter of the first national Greek letter fraternity established...

Detroit, MI

This concert hall was built in 1919 as the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Detroit, MI

In 1944 the Orsel McGhees, a black family, moved here into what was then an all-white neighborhood.

Detroit, MI

African American physician Ossian Sweet and his wife, Gladys, purchased this house in May 1925.

Detroit, MI

The Packard Motor Car Company, which built Detroit’s first, and for many years most prestigious, luxury cars, produced over 1.5 million...

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

This school, named for Catholic missionary and educator Pere Gabriel Richard (1767-1832), opened on September 30, 1930.

Westland, MI

The village of Perrinsville was established as a small commercial center during the 1830s.

Westland, MI

Perrinsville began with a sawmill established by Abraham and Isaac Perrin around 1832.

Detroit, MI

In 1903 Mary Chase Perry (Stratton) and Horace Caulkins founded Pewabic Pottery in a stable near downtown Detroit.

Plymouth, MI

The village of Plymouth was settled in 1825, incorporated in 1867, and became a city in 1932.

Plymouth, MI

Pioneers from New England began settling and farming in this area around 1825.

Rockwood, MI

Pointe Mouillee provides a rich habitat for waterfowl and small game.

Detroit, MI

During the early twentieth century, Detroit police and their criminal foes both adopted the automobile as their preferred means of...

Detroit, MI

In 1879 Recreation Park was established on the land surrounding this site.

Detroit, MI

In 1831 Israel Bell, a Pekin Village commissioner, gave one acre of land to the village for a cemetery.

Redford, MI

Three Redford Township District No. 5 Schools have stood on this property.

Redford Township, MI

In 1874 Redford Township School District No. 9 bought an acre of land from Eugenius and Abigail Hodge and erected this school.

Detroit, MI

John A. Lemke, the son of one of the founders of Detroit’s first Polish Roman Catholic parish, was born in Detroit in 1866.

Melvindale, MI

In this small cemetery are buried members of a pioneer family that settled this land in the 1820s.

Detroit, MI

Robert Pauli Scherer (1906-1960) was a native of Detroit and a graduate of Detroit’s public schools.

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

Russell A. Alger Jr. (1873-1930), son of Michigan’s governor Russell Alger, built this Italian Renaissance-style mansion in 1910.

Detroit, MI

This is the oldest extant church in Detroit.

Detroit, MI

Erected in 1875, this building was originally a German Catholic church.

Dearborn, MI

Attracted by fertile farmland, some forty German-speaking families from Rhineland-Westphalia settled in this area between 1825 and 1848.

Hamtramck, MI

Saint Florian Parish was founded in 1907 to serve the Detroit area’s rapidly expanding Polish Catholic community.

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

By the 1790s, French priests were ministering to farmers living along Lake St. Clair.

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

In 1886 the Convent of the Sacred Heart began providing free education to the children of Saint Paul Catholic Parish.

Taylor, MI

Some of Taylor’s earliest pioneers are buried in Sandhill Cemetery.

Detroit, MI

Founded in 1907, the Scarab Club is one of Michigan’s oldest arts organizations.

Detroit, MI

Gordon W. Lloyd designed this massive structure as a music store for the F. J. Schwankovsky Company.

Detroit, MI

The January 11, 1939 San Francisco News reported that in 1938 Seabiscuit filled more newspaper space than Adolf Hitler or Fanklin Roosevelt.

Detroit, MI

In 1836, thirteen free Black people living in Detroit, some of whom were formerly enslaved, founded Second Baptist Church.

Canton, MI

Timothy and Rachael Sheldon moved here from New York state in the early 1820s, after the Chicago Road (now US 12) was surveyed.

Detroit, MI

Near this site, on February 26, 1906, some three thousand spectators watched the nation’s first Shrine Circus.

Detroit, MI

Construction of the federal Sojourner Truth Homes defense housing complex began in 1941.

Detroit, MI

Polish immigrants arrived in Detroit as early as the 1850s, but not until the Reverend Simon Wieczorek founded St. Albertus Roman...

Grosse Ile, MI

The first building used by Catholics on Grosse Ile was originally the island’s first school.

Detroit, MI

During the early 1850s the growing number of Catholic families of German and Alsatian descent on Detroit’s east side necessitated the...

Detroit, MI

In 1909 Joseph L. Hudson, founder of mercantile establishments known through the nation, and Dr. Adolph G. Studer, general secretary of...

Detroit, MI

The first Polish immigrants came to Detroit during the 1840s.

Grosse Ile, MI

Elizabeth (Lisette) Denison Forth, a self-liberated former slave, willed her life savings to build this 1867 Gothic chapel, which was the...

Detroit, MI

St. John's Parish, established on this site in December 1858, served what was then a rural area north of Detroit.

Detroit, MI

St. Josaphat’s, founded on June 1, 1889, was the third Polish-speaking Roman Catholic parish established in Detroit.

Dearborn, MI

In 1885 Michigan’s first private mental institution was located here under the guidance of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

Detroit, MI

St. Mary´s Parish was founded by Father Martin Kundig in 1835 for the German-speaking Catholics in Detroit and is the third oldest...

Detroit, MI

Founded in 1846, St. Matthew’s Church has served the prominent and well-established members of Detroit’s black community.

Detroit, MI

St. Philip’s Lutheran Church, founded in 1934, was the first black Lutheran church in Michigan.

Rockwood, MI

A Michigan State Police post has been located in this area since the early days of the department.

Detroit, MI

Completed in 1900, this is Michigan’s preeminent example of design by the internationally renowned architects, McKim, Mead and White of...

Detroit, MI

On July 26, 1701, two days after his arrival, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the founder of Detroit, built a chapel dedicated to Saint...

Detroit, MI

On September 22, 1877, a Bell telephone was installed on this site in the drugstore operated by Frederick Stearns.

Plymouth, MI

This house was built for William Sutherland in 1921.

Detroit, MI

During the late nineteenth century many Polish immigrants fleeing oppression came to Detroit.

Hamtramck, MI

In 1901, four young women between the ages of fifteen and sixteen founded Tau Beta as a social club for girls.

Taylor, MI

The Taylor Methodist Episcopal congregation built the first church in Taylor Township in 1882 on land donated by Marlin H. H. and Rachel...

Taylor, MI

This cemetery is the oldest of the city’s three municipal burial grounds.

Canton, MI

In 1829 the Territorial Legislative Council of Michigan moved to survey land to create a road from the east side of Michigan Territory to...

Detroit, MI

Near this site in late July 1763, the British and Indians fought the fiercest battle of Chief Pontiac’s uprising.

Dearborn, MI

During his long career Robert Herndon developed over fifty subdivisions and nine golf courses.

Dearborn, MI

Henry Ford built the Dearborn Inn in 1931 to accommodate overnight travelers arriving at the Ford Airport.

Detroit, MI

Older than the state of Michigan, the Detroit Free Press began publishing as the Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer May 5,...

Detroit, MI

Here in 1868 five young physicians, whose work with wounded during the Civil War had left them eager to improve the quality of medical...

Detroit, MI

On August 23, 1873, James E. Scripps began publishing the Evening News, one of the first popular, low-priced evening newspapers in Michigan.

Trenton, MI

People have long been drawn to the Detroit River for settlement and commerce.

Dearborn, MI

The Edison Institute, founded on this site by Henry Ford and dedicated to Thomas Alva Edison by President Herbert Hoover on October 21,...

Detroit, MI

In 1909 Wayne County built the first mile of concrete highway in the world here on Woodward between Six and Seven Mile Roads.

Dearborn, MI

At this airport, built by Henry Ford in 1924, world and national history was made, ushering in a new era of flight embracing the...

Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

This Neo-Gothic church was dedicated on May 15, 1927.

Detroit, MI

After departing Montreal June 5, 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and his convoy of twenty-five canoes sailed down this river, and on...

Detroit, MI

At the close of the nineteenth century Detroit was “The Stove Capital of the World.

Detroit, MI

The Players, a Detroit gentlemen’s amateur theatre club founded in 1911, opened this playhouse in 1926.

Grosse Ile, MI

This vernacular house was built by John A. Rucker Jr. in 1848.

Detroit, MI

Founded by William Booth in London, England, the Salvation Army came to Michigan in 1883.

Detroit, MI

Bishop Derrick Fields founded this congregation of Ethiopian Israelites in Alabama in the early twentieth century.

Detroit, MI

On June 18, 1812, the United States Congress declared war on Great Britain.

Detroit, MI

Baseball has been played on this site since before 1900 and it has been the home of the Detroit Tigers from their start as charter...

Detroit, MI

After the War of 1812, Territorial Governor Lewis Cass recognized the need to ease tensions between the United States and the Native...

Detroit, MI

Trinity Lutheran Church, one of the oldest of this denomination in Detroit, was founded in 1850.

The original Robert Trombly School was built at the corner of Jefferson and Beaconsfield in 1903.

Detroit, MI

When Michigan became a state in 1837, the Detroit office of the U.S. Topographical Engineers was headquartered on this site.

Detroit, MI

In 1939 Italian American violinist and sound engineer James “Jimmy” Siracuse (1903-1988) converted this 1916 house into the new home for...

William Voigt Jr. is thought to have designed this house as a summer home in the early 1900s.

Detroit, MI

At 3:00 P.M. on June 23, 1963, at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Adelaide Street, the Walk to Freedom began.

Dearborn Heights, MI

Constructed in 1824 as a church, the original log building on this site was the first school in Bucklin (later Dearborn) Township.

William Buck, an English immigrant farmer, built the main part of this house around 1849.

Detroit, MI

Here in the Central High building, completed in 1896, was founded in 1917 Detroit Junior College, from which grew a college of liberal arts.

Detroit, MI

In 1813, territorial governor Lewis Cass purchased the Macomb farm.

Detroit, MI

In 1973, the Federal Communications Commission granted the International Free and Accepted Modern Masons, led by Dr. William V. Banks...

Detroit, MI

In 1919 Leon “Toy” Wheeler of Indianapolis, Indiana, became the first black recreation worker employed by the city of Detroit.

Detroit, MI

William Ferguson, Michigan’s first black legislator, lived on this site.

Detroit, MI

William Lambert, a black leader in Michigan for almost fifty years, lived on this site.

Detroit, MI

William B. Stratton designed this building for the Women’s City Club of Detroit--founded in 1919 “to promote a broad acquaintance among...

Detroit, MI

On April 27, 1764, the provincial grand master of the Free and Accepted Masons in New York issued a charter to a Masonic lodge in Detroit.