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Depot Town was created after the Ypsilanti Train Depot was opened in 1838. As the railroad connected Ypsilanti, MI with Detroit, the area surrounding the depot grew. [ 2 ] The commercial community known as Depot Town was built over the thirty years following the arrival of the railroad, [ 3 ] and most of the buildings standing today were built ...
Sidetrack's building has an atypical shape due to a train derailment that happened in 1929. On an early January morning, a freight train moving through Depot Town came off its track and crashed into the corner of what is now Sidetrack Bar and Grill. The owner of the building, who lived just above the section that was hit, was uninjured.
The Ypsilanti Food Co-op was founded in 1975 on Sheridan St between Elm and Oakwood and is now located at 312 N. River Street in Ypsilanti's Depot Town neighborhood. The Mill Works Building, in which the co-op resides, was originally a foundry that made wheels for grinding flour. The Mill Works Building in the 19th Century
North Maize Road is always a construction zone these days. As development has stretched north from 21st Street over the last several years, it seems like a new business or office or restaurant is ...
Ypsilanti is known for being the home of Eastern Michigan University (formerly the Michigan State Normal College) since the university's founding as Michigan's first normal school (teachers' college) in 1849, its location on the historic Detroit-Chicago Road (now US Highway 12), its historic Depot Town commercial district, and for its ...
In June 2012, happy hour became legal in Kansas after a 26-year ban. [18] In July 2015, a 25-year happy hour ban was ended in Illinois. [19] As of July 2015, happy hour bans existed in Alaska, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont. A bill filed in 2023 in the North Carolina General ...
The latest addition to the city is Maiz y Agave, a three-story dining and drinking destination on the edge of Miracle Mile that highlights the cuisine and culture of Oaxaca, Mexico.
The Michigan ElvisFest was founded in 1999. Started by Elvis tribute artists Matt King and Sherman Arnold in cooperation with the Ypsilanti Depot Town Association, to celebrate the music and the influence of Elvis Presley and replace the previous Ypsilanti based music festival, the Bob Marley Festival.