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The Eight Mile-Wyoming area historically represented an empowering area for Black home development and ownership in the 1920s and 1930s. Horace White, a leading Detroit minister and the first black member of the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC), states it represented an important place of black settlement "because it was their one opportunity, as they saw it, to own their own homes and rear ...
The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit's Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a one-foot-thick (0.30 m), six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that stretches about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) in length. 1 foot (0.30 m) is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet (1.5 m) is visible to the community.
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 ...
The city's vast theme park, Six Flags New Orleans (formerly Jazzland), was once another popular Louisiana attraction. The complex opened in 2000 and ran successfully for five years. Darrell Miller
Woodward Avenue Presbyterian was abandoned, and has fallen into disrepair. Owners changed hands several times but none had the finances to keep up such a large property. [6] The building then was bought at a foreclosure sale by an information technology company that had also purchased an adjacent building.
The combined Brewster-Douglass Project was five city blocks long, and three city blocks wide, [5] and housed anywhere between 8,000 and 10,000 residents at its peak capacity. The Brewster-Douglass Project were built for the "working poor". The Detroit Housing Commission required an employed parent for each family before establishing tenancy.
After 40 years, the former stadium of the Detroit Lions will be torn down this spring, according to The Detroit News. Haunting photos show how run-down the abandoned Detroit Lions stadium has ...
Zug Island, viewed from the Detroit River in May 2021. Zug Island is a heavily industrialized island within the city of River Rouge at the southern city limits of Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located where the mouth of the River Rouge spills into the Detroit River.