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Description. The Spirit of Detroit is a monument with a large bronze statue created by Marshall Fredericks and located at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Fredericks also designed the seal of Wayne County at the time he was designing The Spirit of Detroit, as it was a part of the work and the county ...
The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a Civil War monument located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.This example of civic sculpture stands in a prominent location on the southeast tip of Campus Martius Park, where five principal thoroughfares—Michigan Avenue, Monroe Street, Cadillac Square, Fort Street, and Woodward Avenue—convene on the reconstructed traffic circle in front of One ...
v. t. e. Detroit, the largest city in the state of Michigan, was settled in 1701 by French colonists. It is the first European settlement above tidewater in North America. [1] Founded as a New France fur trading post, it began to expand during the 19th century with U.S. settlement around the Great Lakes.
Location. in Wayne County, Michigan. Coordinates. 42°17′57″N 83°05′50″W. / 42.29917°N 83.09722°W / 42.29917; -83.09722. The Fort Wayne mound site was a prehistoric burial mound located on the grounds of the Ordinance Department of the former Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan. It was one of a series of mounds in Detroit ...
Alexander Macomb. General Alexander Macomb is a monumental statue in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It was designed by sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman and was dedicated in 1908 in honor of Alexander Macomb, a Detroit native who had served as the Commanding General of the United States Army for several years in the early 1800s.
Fort Wayne Museum of Art: Dancing Family Milton Hebald: 1970 Fort Wayne Children's Zoo: Bronze: Sculpture: approx. 60 × 50 × 58 in. Fort Wayne Children's Zoo: David N. Foster Frederick Hibbard: 1922 Swinney Park Bronze: Sculpture: approx. 9 ft. 6 in. × 42 in. × 31 1 ⁄ 4 in. City of Fort Wayne: Eagles Unknown ca. 1903 203 East Douglas Avenue
Fort Wayne is located in the city of Detroit, Michigan, at the foot of Livernois Avenue in the Delray neighborhood. The fort is situated on the Detroit River at a point where it is under half a mile to the Ontario shore. The original 1848 limestone barracks (with later brick additions) still stands, as does the 1845 fort (renovated in 1863 with ...
Campus Martius Park (/ ˈ m ɑːr ʃ ʌ s / MAR-shuss) [1] is a re-established park in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.After the Great Fire of 1805, Campus Martius (from the Latin for Field of Mars, where Roman heroes walked) was the focal point of Judge Augustus Woodward's plans to rebuild the city. [2]