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This section of the county was a primarily agricultural district throughout much of the 19th century until Detroit's nouveau riche discovered the area and began building summer cottages there. As automobiles became more prevalent, and outlying suburbs more accessible, the Pointes quickly became a community of year-round upper-class residents.
Gateway Marketplace is a power center in Detroit, Michigan. The complex is located at the southeast corner of 8 Mile Road ( M-102 ) and Woodward Avenue ( M-1 ), adjacent to the Jason Hargrove Transit Center and near the former site of the Michigan State Fair complex.
Wayne County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of 2020, the United States census placed its population at 1,793,561, making it the 19th-most populous county in the United States. [4] The county seat is Detroit. [5] The county was founded in 1796 and organized in 1815. [1]
The Rose Estate, a gorgeous 1927 home, is situated along the ninth hole of the Detroit Golf Club in the city's Palmer Woods neighborhood. Aretha Franklin’s Rose Estate blooms again after $2 ...
In 2000, Bowman announced plans to relocate the Expo Center to a new facility, to be built 1 1/2 miles to the west. [7]The new, $18 million facility opened in August 2005 as the Rock Financial Showplace, under a naming rights deal with Quicken Loans, which, at the time, used its former name, Rock Financial, for its Detroit-area operations.
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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 ...
The Detroit Area Council—later becoming the Great Lakes Council for the Boy Scouts of America that serves the Detroit metropolitan area and covers all of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties—chose to build its headquarters in Woodbridge. The facility holds both council and district staff, as well as the National Toyota Scout Shop.