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The first burial occurred three weeks prior to the dedication on September 10, 1846. Founded by some of early Detroit's leading residents, Elmwood originally covered 42 acres (170,000 m 2). Over time, it expanded to encompass 86 acres (350,000 m 2) and is the final resting-place of many notable Detroiters as well as ordinary citizens.
Name Image Location Summary Bricktown Historic District Separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown.: Bricktown separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown. [citation needed] Bricktown is home to St. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church, the oldest standing church in Detroit, and the Italian Renaissance style Wayne County Building (which was saved from demolition in the early 1980s).
Lilium michiganense is a species of true lily commonly referred to as the Michigan lily. [2] It is a wildflower present in prairie habitats in the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley regions of the United States and Canada , from South Dakota through Ontario to New York , south to Georgia and Oklahoma .
Each bulb sends up a long, naked stalk bearing one or two showy lily flowers. The stalk bows at the end so that the face of the flower points at the ground. There are six tepals in shades of pink or light purple which may have yellow or white spotting toward the center of the flower. The tepals may be straight or recurved so far that their tips ...
Nymphaea tetragona is an aquatic perennial, [3] species of flowering plant commonly called pygmy waterlily [4] and small white water lily, [5] belonging to the family Nymphaeaceae. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Description
Lilium candidum, the Madonna lily [2] [3] or white lily, [4] is a plant in the true lily family. It is native to the Balkans and Middle East, and naturalized in other parts of Europe, including France, Italy, and Ukraine, and in North Africa, the Canary Islands , Mexico, and other regions.
DETROIT (AP) — One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps out of her home on The post Detroit ridding itself of concrete skeletons, 100 decaying remnants of white ...
Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States.Locally, "downtown" tends to refer to the 1.4 square mile region bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south.