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The Detroit Wayne County Port District was established in 1933, though, the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority was not organized until 1978. [5] The first board meeting of the authority was held on October 10, 1980, and Henry Ford II was chosen as its first chairman.
Augustus Woodward's plan following the 1805 fire for Detroit's baroque-styled radial avenues and Grand Circus Park Streetcars on Woodward Avenue, circa 1900s. The period from 1800 to 1929 was one of considerable growth of the city, from 1,800 people in 1820 to 1.56 million in 1930 (2.3 million for the metropolitan area).
In 1903, the plant owned eighty-five acres (34 ha) along the Detroit River that included 1,400 feet (430 m) of river frontage. [4] The company began with a capital of $1.5 million and a $500,000 bond issue. [5] Within three years of GLEW's formation, Detroit built fifty percent of the tonnage of all ships in the Great Lakes. [3]
It was founded in 1918 in Detroit, after August Fruehauf created the semi-trailer and launched a new industry. The Fruehauf trailer company introduced revolutionary inventions to trucking and transportation with hydraulic dump trailers, bulk tanker trailers, and automatic fifth-wheel couplings among their more than one thousand patents ...
Large hoses are pumping water at the intersection of Rowan Street and Beard in southwest Detroit on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 after a water main break the day before flooded the neighborhood.
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 ...
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 was first noticed on Thursday, November 6 on the western side of Lake Superior, moving rapidly toward northern Lake Michigan.The weather forecast in The Detroit News predicted "moderate to brisk" winds at the Great Lakes with occasional rain on Thursday night or Friday for the upper lakes (except southern Lake Huron) and fair-to-unsettled conditions for the lower ...
She was built for Ward's Crescent Transportation Company, and was operated as part of Ward's Detroit & Lake Superior Line, both of Detroit. [1] [9] [10] Detroit was her first home port, where she was enrolled at on the same day she was launched. [9] She entered service later in August. [1] She was retrofitted with double hoists for loading ...