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  2. Joseph Croshaw - Wikipedia

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    Major Joseph Croshaw (c. 1610-12–1667) was a planter living near Williamsburg in the Colony of Virginia. He was the son of Captain Raleigh Croshaw. He became a planter and lived a few miles from present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. On December 10, 1651, he patented land which became the plantation known as Poplar Neck:

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Detroit

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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 ...

  4. East Grand Boulevard Historic District - Wikipedia

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    By 1913, the landscaped Grand Boulevard was generally recognized as a major adornment of the city, and a prestigious address in which to reside. [ 2 ] Houses built along this section of the Boulevard were among the grandest in the city at the time they were built; however, by the mid-1920s, the appeal of living along Grand Boulevard declined. [ 3 ]

  5. Virginia Park Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia Park Historic District is considered to mark the northern boundary of the New Center area of Detroit. In 2022, one of Detroit's last remaining brick streets, built in 1907 in Virginia Park, began a $2 million rehabilitation. Stretching three blocks along Virginia Park Street between Woodward Ave, and the Lodge Freeway.

  6. East Ferry Avenue Historic District - Wikipedia

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    In 1856, the Ferry Seed Company was founded in Detroit; the company established a large farm at the corner of East Ferry and Woodward to grow the seeds that were sold nationwide. [ 3 ] [ note 1 ] In the mid-1880s, then-owner D. M. Ferry platted the farm into residential lots along East Ferry Avenue. [ 4 ]

  7. List of tallest buildings in Detroit - Wikipedia

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    C. ^ The capitol of Michigan was relocated to Lansing in 1847, and the original capitol building was destroyed in a fire in 1893. D. ^ This building was destroyed in 1961. E. ^ a b St. Joseph Church, completed in 1873, tied the height of the Detroit City Hall. The city therefore had two tallest buildings for a period of 4 years, until the Fort ...

  8. New Center Commercial Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Detroit Hardware Company, founded in 1924, moved into this building in 1933 and has occupied the building continuously since then. Detroit Savings Bank (6438 Woodward), 1916 the Detroit Savings Bank is two story Neoclassical structure designed by Albert Kahn and built in 1916. It was used by the Detroit Savings Bank until at least 1956.

  9. Grand Boulevard (Detroit) - Wikipedia

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    Detroit River, at the base of Grand Blvd. 42°20′32″N 82°58′46″W  /  42.34222°N 82.97944°W  / 42.34222; -82.97944  ( Belle Belle Isle is a 982-acre (3.97 km 2 ) island park in the Detroit River, home to the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory , the Detroit Yacht Club , the Detroit Boat Club , the Dossin Great Lakes Museum ...