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The Great Fire of 1805 occurred on June 11, 1805, in the city of Detroit, in the Michigan Territory of the United States. [1] The fire destroyed almost everything in the city. [2] The motto of the city, Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus ('We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes'), was written after this fire. [3]
Stevenson returned to Detroit on Labor Day in 1956, launching another unsuccessful campaign for the White House. John F. Kennedy, 1960 John F. Kennedy kicks off his 1960 campaign for president at ...
The fire, Detroit Fire Department James Harris said, broke out on the city’s west side at about 6:30 p.m. at a Detroit Mulch Co., at 14300 Prairie.
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 ...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer held a media event at Detroit Fire Department Engine House 52 in Detroit to sign a bipartisan general budget for the 2025 Fiscal Year on Wednesday, July 24, 2024.
Labor Day fire may refer to one of the following: 2005 Labor Day brush fire, in California, which burned approximately 200 acres; 2020 Washington Labor Day fires, in ...
The award came after a 'mini trial' that was the first in a series to determine compensation for some 5,000 fire victims of four megafires in 2020. Jury awards 9 survivors of 2020 Labor Day fires ...
The fires forced large-scale evacuations across Marion County. Many buildings were destroyed during the fires' westward spread, mostly in September, with the Santiam Fire destroying most of the cities of Detroit, and Gates, with Idanha, Mill City, and Lyons suffering anywhere from moderate to extensive amounts of damage.