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The former 6th Precinct 'McGraw Station' (also known as the Sixth Precinct, or McGraw Station) is a historic building located at 6840 McGraw Avenue, in Detroit, Michigan. The station served as the police station for the Detroit Police Department 's sixth police precinct for over 56 years, covering a portion of Southwest Detroit neighborhoods ...
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 ...
English: Thomas C. Wilcox, Former City of Detroit Police Commissioner. Photo taken May 27, 1930. Photo taken May 27, 1930. Photo is part of the McGraw Station Historical Collection.
Some 20 years later, Ford Motor Co. stepped forward as the abandoned station's long-awaited savior, buying the building to be the centerpiece of its new Detroit mobility campus. A grand unveiling ...
The train station's history reflects the city's fortunes during its heyday as the world's car capital and later misfortunes as thousands of auto workers and other residents fled Detroit for life ...
But we are not in Detroit. Detroit is in us. More: Michigan Central Station still has decades-old graffiti: Why Ford decided to keep it. Contact Phoebe Wall Howard: 313-618-1034 or phoward ...
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 ...
A different kind of traveler. In those first years of the brand new Michigan Central Station, many African Americans were coming to Detroit, drawn by Henry Ford's offer of $5 a day in 1914.