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Detroit Dry Dock yard and, in background, Dry Dock Engine Works buildings (including the Dry Dock Hotel in center), c. 1884. [5] None of the structures in this engraving survive. In the 1840s, Captain Stephen R. Kirby began a shipbuilding firm in Cleveland, Ohio , and by 1852 had moved to Saginaw, Michigan . [ 6 ]
By virtue of his 5th-place finish in the 200-yard individual medley and a 7th place showing in the 100-yard butterfly, Foley scored 17 team points for Cooley High at the 1967 state meet. Foley returned to the state swimming finals, in 1968; scoring 19 points for Cooley with a 5th in the individual medley and a 6th in the butterfly event.
Brightmoor is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan, near the northwest border of the city. [3] Brightmoor is defined by the Brightmoor Alliance as being bordered by Puritan Avenue to the north, the CSX railway to the south, Evergreen Road to the east, and West Outer Drive, Dacosta Street, and Telegraph Road to the west.
Milwaukee Junction is an area in Detroit, Michigan, east of New Center.Located near the railroad junction of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad's predecessors Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway and the Chicago, Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction, the area encompasses the streets of East Grand Boulevard to the north, St. Aubin St./Hamtramck Drive to the east, John R Street to the ...
Mount Clemens, the Macomb county seat, is 11 miles (18 km) to the southeast, and downtown Detroit is 24 miles (39 km) to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 35.2 square miles (91 km 2 ), of which 34.4 square miles (89 km 2 ) are land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2 ), or 2.31%, are water. [ 1 ]
An inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Dearborn Heights is located about 12 miles (19 km) west of downtown Detroit. The city shares a small border with Detroit, and is considered a bedroom community. [5] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 63,292. [6]
Detroit City is the Place to Be. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company (New York). First Edition, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8050-9229-5 (hardback version). Buckowczyk, John J. "The Decline and Fall of a Detroit Neighborhood: Poletown vs. G.M. and the City of Detroit." Washington and Lee Law Review, January 1, 1984. Volume 41, Issue 1, Article 5. p ...
Another famous skyscraper in Detroit is the Detroit Marriott at the renaissance center which rises 727 feet (222 m) along Detroit's International Riverfront. [A] [ 1 ] It is the 2nd tallest building in the state of Michigan, the 97th-tallest building in the United States , and the second tallest hotel building in the Western Hemisphere . [ 1 ]