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By 1837 the Society supported three schools and an attendance of two hundred, at the time, the only free schools in the city. In 1841, Dr. Zina Pitcher, mayor of Detroit, pointed out that the city’s youth spent idle hours in wretched conditions.
1826: The U.S. removes troops from Fort Shelby. Plans to demolish the fort are laid, and the government donates the land to the city. 1827: Wayne County is divided into townships: Brownstown, Bucklin, Detroit, Ecorse, Hamtramck, Huron, Manguagon, Plymouth and Springwells.
Mar 18, 2015 · But did you know that the University of Michigan began in Detroit, too? And it was on this date in 1837 that the Legislature granted the school permission to relocate to Ann Arbor.
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Before the first French settlers arrived in the mid-1600s, Indigenous people lived in the area now known as Michigan for 10,000 years. At the time, more than 100,000 Indigenous people coalesced into nine groups throughout the Great Lakes area. The Iroquoian-speaking Wyandot (called the Hurons by the French) was the largest Michigan-area tribe at th...
French explorer Samuel de Champlainbecame the first European to explore modern-day Michigan when he navigated the St. Lawrence River in 1603. Over the following three decades, he investigated and mapped much of the Great Lakes and Michigan. Champlain’s explorations piqued French interest in establishing a fur trade in Michigan and converting Native...
Conflicts over control of the North American fur trade led to the Seven Years’ War between France and Great Britain. After losing the war in 1763, the French ceded its colonies east of the Mississippi River, including Michigan, to the British. Michigan remained under British control until the American colonists’ victory in the Revolutionary War. On...
During early European colonization, the French and English brought slaves to Michigan. When Great Britain transferred control of Michigan to the United States, the Northwest Ordinance officially abolished slavery in the region–although many slaveholders found loopholes in the law and retained their slaves. An abolitionist movement developed, and hu...
The automotive industry in Michigan started when Ransom Eli Olds founded Olds Motors Works—later called Oldsmobile—in Lansing, Michigan, on August 21, 1897. In 1903, Henry Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, near his hometown of Dearborn, Michigan; the company sold its first car that same year. In 1908, Ford started production of i...
In 1874, John Ward Westcott established a marine company to deliver destination and dock information to passing ships by sending messages up a rope on a pail. In 1948, the J.W. Westcott became an o...The five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge, linking the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan across the Straits of Mackinac, took more than three years to complete and was the world’s longest suspension...Michigan has more than 11,000 inland lakes, greater than 36,000 miles of streams and 3,126 miles of shoreline along the Great Lakes.The Great Lakes contain more than 80 percent of North America’s—and more than 20 percent of the world’s—surface freshwater supply.National Park Service, What Happened on the Trail of Tears? Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, History National Park Service, American Expansion Turns to Official Indian Removal The University of Michigan Press, Michigan: A History of Explorers, Entrepreneurs and Everyday People, Chapter 1: First Residents Michigan State University, Ojibwe Michigan State ...
1807: In a treaty with Native Americans, the United States purchases much of southeastern Michigan for 2 cents an acre, for a total of about $10,000. 1808: Father Gabriel Richard starts a school at Springwells (present site of Fort Wayne) for both Native American and white children.
This essay reviews the history of that settlement from its founding until Michigan was admitted into the Union as a state in 1837. Although organized chronologically, this essay places the city's time line in the context of national and international events that shaped its destiny.
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After the Civil War, and with the legal end of slavery, African Americans in the South make alliances with white Republicans to push for many political changes, including for the first time rewriting state constitutions to guarantee free public education.
