Detroit

      Detroit was the home of Native Americans for 11,000 years before the first French in the 1630's.  The city was founded by Antoine Cadillac who constructed a fort here in 1701.  The name comes from the French word for "strait". From 1805 to 1847 Detorit was the capital of Michigan Territory and during the early years of statehood. It was officially incorporated as a city in 1815.
  
History
The bi-centenary of the founding of the city of Detroit 1701-1901 1902
By-gones of Detroit by George C. Bates c1880's
Book of Detroiters  1908
Historical Art Souvenir; Detroit and her Bi-centenary by Morrison Printing 1901
History of Detroit 1780-1850 by Clarence M. Burton 1917
Local History of Detroit and Wayne County by George B. Catlin and George N. Fuller c1928
The Historical Geography of Detroit by A. E. Parkins 1918
The Story of Detroit by George B. Catlin 1923
Eloise Mental Hospital
Belle Isle
Woodward
1614 Howard Street, Detroit
 
Libraries, Museums and Genealogical/Historical Societies
Burton Historical Collection  5201 Woodward Ave.
Detroit Historical Museum  5401 Woodward Ave.
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit Society for Genealogical Research 
Dossin Great Lakes Museum  100 Strand Drive, Belle Isle
Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society  Aftican American Families
French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan
Genealogical Society of Flemish Americans
Historic Fort Wayne  6325 W. Jefferson
Irish Genealogical Society of Michigan
Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan
Motown Museum  2648 Berry Gordy Jr. Blvd
Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan
Wright Museum of African American History  315 E. Warren
 
Historical Sites
Albert Kahn House  208 Mack Ave
Alpha House  293 Eliot Street  (MHM)
American Academy of Pediatrics  3990 John R Street  (MHM)
Assumption Roman Catholic Church  13770 Gratiot Ave  (MHM)
Bagley Memorial Fountain  Cadilac Square
Bailey Temple Church of God in Christ  5370 McKinley Ave  (MHM)
Baker's Keyboard Lounge  20510 Livernois Ave
Battle of Bloody Run  3321 East Jefferson  (MHM)
Belcrest Apartments  5440 Cass Avenue
Belle Isle  Casino Way, Belle Isle (MHM)
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church  5050 St/ Antoine (MHM)
Birth of Kiwanis  Griswold and Grand River  (MHM)
Birthplace of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche  5668 Anthon Street (MHM)
Birthplace of Ford Automobile  220 Bagley Ave (MHM)
Birwood Wall  20233 Birwood Street  (MHM)
Bishop's Residence  1880 Wellesley Drive  (MHM)
Black Bottom  Eliot Street  (MHM)
Boston-Edison Historic District
Brewster Homes  Mack and I-75
Broadhead Armory  7600 East Jefferson Ave.
Buick Motor Company
Cass Community United Methodist Church  3901 Cass Ave.  (MHM)
Cathedral Church of St. Paul  4800 Woodward
Central United Methodist Church  23 East Adams  (MHM)
Central Woodward Christian Church  9000 Woodward Ave  (MHM)
Chapman Abraham  1900 Atwater Street  (MHM)
Chapoton House  511 Beaublen  (MHM)
Charles Lang Freer House  71 East Ferry Ave.  (MHM)
Charles Trombly House  553 East Jefferson
Chicago Road  Michigan Ave. (MHM) 
Christ Church  960 East Jefferson
Chrysler Corporation  12000 Oakland Avenue  (MHM)
Church of Annunciation  707 East Lafayette  (MHM)
Clay School  453 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Conant Gardens  18000 Conant Street  (MHM)
David Augustus Straker  428 Temple  (MHM)
David Dunbar Buick  Jefferson Ave  (MHM)
David Whitney Building  1 Park Ave  (MHM)
David Whitney Jr. Residence  4421 Woodward Ave  (MHM)
Detroit Association of Women's Clubs  5461 Brush Street  (MHM)
Detroit College of Law  130 E. Elizabeth Street  (MHM)
Detroit Copper and Brass  174 South Clark  (MHM)
Detroit Cornice and State Building  733 St. Antonine Street  (MHM)
Detroit Free Press Building  321 West Lafayette  (MHM)
Detroit Institute of Technology  Temple and Second
Detroit July 1967  9125 Rosa Parks Blvd  (MHM)
Detroit Memorial Hospital  1441 Chrysler Service Circle  (MHM)
Detroit Masonic Temple  500 Temple Ave.
Detroit Medical College  3800 Woodward  (MHM)
Detroit News  615 West Lafayette  (MHM)
Detroit Plaindealer  Shelby and State Streets  (MHM)
Detroit River  5437 West Jefferson  (MHM)
Detroit Urban League  208 Mack Ave  (MHM)
Duane Doty School  841 G;umm Court  (MHM)
Dunbar Hospital  580 Frederick  (MHM)
Early Detroit 1701-1760   Cobo Hall  (MHM)
East Ferry Avenue Historic District
Eastern Liggett School  2555 Burns Ave  (MHM)
Eastern Market Historic District
Eighth Precinct Police Station  4150 Grand River
Elijah McCoy Homesite  Elijah McCoy Drive  (MHM)
Elisha Taylor House  59 Alfred Street
Elizabeth Denison Forth House  328 Macomb
Elmwood Cemetery  Robert Bradley Drive  (MHM)
Engine House No. 11  2737 Gratiot Ave.
Fannie Richards Homesite  Rivard Ave  (MHM)
Farwell Building  Griswald Street
Finney Barn  State and Griswald  (MHM)
First Congregational Church of Detroit  33 East Forest  (MHM)
First Jewish Religious Services  Congress at St. Antonie  (MHM)
First Michigan Colored Regiment  Macomb Street  (MHM)
First Mile of Concrete  Woodward Ave  (MHM)
First Presbyterian Church  2930 Woodward Ave  (MHM)
First Unitarian Universalist Church  4605 Cass Ave.  (MHM)
Fisher Building  3011 West Grand Blvd  (MHM)
Ford Building  615 Griswold Street  (MHM)
Ford Motor Company  Hart Plaza  (MHM)
Ford Piquette Plant  Piquett Ave  (MHM)
Fort Lemoult  Fort Street  (MHM)
Fort Pontchartrain  2 Washington Blvd  (MHM)
Fort Street Presbyterian Church  631 West Fort  (MHM)
Fort Wayne  6325 West Jefferson  (MHM)
Fox Theater Building  2211 Woodward Ave
Frank J. Hecker House  3990 John R
Frederick Douglass-John Brown Meeting  633 East Congress Street  (MHM)
Frederick Linsell House  5104 Second Ave.
Frederick Sibley Lumber Company Building  6460 Kercheval Ave
Frederick Stearns Building  6533 East Jefferson
Friendship Baptist Church  3900 Beaubien Ave  (MHM)
George DeBaptiste Homesite  East larned and Beaubien Streets (MHM)
Germantown  Grand River Ave.  (MHM)
Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church  4461 Twenty-Eighth Street
Greater Shiloh Baptist Church  557 Benton (MHM)
Harmonie Club  267 East Grand River
Hartford Memorial Baptist Church  18700 James Couzens Hwy  (MHM)
Henry Ford House  140 Edison Ave.  (MHM)
Hilberry Theatre  4743 Cass  (MHM)
Holy Family Church  641 Walter P. Chrysler Hwy  (MHM)
Hook and Ladder House No. 5  Russell Street
Hudson-Evans House  79 Alfred Street
Hurlbut Memorial Gate  East Jefferson at Cadillac Blvd
Indian Village  Iroquois and East Vernor Hwy  (MHM)
International Institute of Detroit  111 East Kirby  (MHM)
James A. Bailey  One Washington Blvd  (MHM)
James A. Garfield School  840 Waterman
Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church  8625 East Jefferson Ave.  (MHM)
Joe Muer's Oyster House  2000 Gratiot Ave.  (MHM)
L. B. King and Company Building  1274 Library Ave.  (MHM)
Landing of Cadillac  Hart Plaza  (MHM)
LeCote' DuNord-Est  Joseph Campau  (MHM)
Lewis College of Business  5450 John R.  (MHM)
Mackenzie House  4735 Cass Ave.  (MHM)
Main Detroit Public Library 5201 Woodward Ave
Mariners' Church  170 Jefferson Ave
Martin Kundig  3300 Jeffries Freeway  (MHM)
Metropolitan United Methodist Church  8000 Woodward Ave
Michigan Central Railroad Station  2405 West Vernor Street
Michigan Soliers and Sailors Monument  Cadillac Square
Michigan State Fair  1120 W. State Fair  (MHM)
Michigan State Medical Society  31 Woodward Ave.  (MHM)
Michigan Stove  Old State Fairgrounds  (MHM)
Michigan's First Tri-Level Intersection  Woodward Ave and 8 Mile Road  (MHM)
Michigan's Oldest Jewish Cemetery  3371 East Lafayette/Elmwood Cemetery  (MHM)
Michigan's First Capitol  Capitol Park, 1200 Griswold  (MHM)
Moross House  1460 East Jefferson
Motown  2648 West Grand Blvd.  (MHM)
Music Hall  350 Madison Ave.  (MHM)
North Woodward Avenue Congregational Church  8715 Woodward  (MHM)
Northwood House  3985 Trumbull Ave
Old City Hall  777 Woodward Ave.  (MHM)
Oldest Jewish Cemetery  3371 East Lafayette
Omega Psi Phi  235 East Ferry  (MHM)
Orchestra Hall  3711 Woodward Ave.  (MHM)
Orsel McGhee House  4626 Seebaldt Street  (MHM)
Ossian Sweet House  2905 Garland Ave.  (MHM)
Packard Motor Car Company  1580 East Grand Blvd  (MHM)
Palmer Park
Palms  1001 E. Jefferson
Paradise Valley  St. Antoine  (MHM)
Park Avenue Historic District
Pewabic Pottery  10125 East Jefferson  (MHM)
Players  3321 East Jefferson  (MHM)
Police Radio Dispatch  Inselruhe Drive, Belle Isle  (MHM)
Ransom Eli Olds  Belle Isle  (MHM)
Recreation Park  3990 John R  (MHM)
Redford Cemetery  15884 Telegraph Road  (MHM)
Redford Theatre  17354 Lahser Ave
Religious of the Sacred Heart  S. Jefferson btw Beaubien and St. Antonie (MHM)
Reverend John A. Lemke  4231 St. Aubin Street  (MHM)
Robert Pauli Scherer  67 KIrby Street  (MHM)
S. S. Kresge World Headquarters  2727 Second Ave.
Sacred Heart Parish  1000 Eliot Street  (MHM)
Salvation Army  Randolph Street  (MHM)
Scarab Club  217 Farnsworth (MHM)
Schwankovsky Temple of Music  1500 Woodward Ave  (MHM)
Seabiscuit  1120 W. State Fair  (MHM)
Second Baptist Church 441 Monroe Street  (MHM)
Shrine Circus  Randolph and Larned (MHM)
Sibley House  976 East Jefferson Ave
SS. Peter and Paul Church  629 East Jefferson  (MHM)
Stanley Miller Middel School  2322 DuBois Street (MHM)
St. Albertus Church  4231 St. Aubin  (MHM)
St. Anthon Church  St. Anthony Place  (MHM)
St. Antoine YMCA Site  635 Elizabeth Street  (MHM)
St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church  2356 Vermont Ave
St. Elizabeth Church  3138 East Canfield  (MHM)
St. Hyacinth Catholic Church  3151 Farnsworth Ave  (MHM)
St. John's Episcopal Church  2326 E. Lafayette Blvd  (MHM)
St. John's Presbyterian Church  1961 E. Lafayette Blvd  (MHM)
St. Josaphat Roman Catholic Church  715 East Canfield  (MHM)
St. Joseph's Parish  1828 Jay Street  (MHM)
St. Mary's Church  & Rectory  646 Monroe Ave  (MHM)
St. Mattew's Episcopal Church  2019 St. Antoine Street  (MHM)
St. Philip's Lutheran Church  2884 East Grand Blvd  (MHM)
State Savings Bank  151 West Fort  (MHM)
Ste. Anne Church  1000 Ste. Anne Street  (MHM)
Stearns Telephone  511 Woodward Ave  (MHM)
Stroh Brewery  1155 Brewery Park Blvd  (MHM)
Sweetest Heart of Mary Catholic Church  4440 Russell  (MHM)
Temple No. 1  11529 Linwood  (MHM)
Thompson House  4756 Cass Ave.  (MHM)
Tiger Statium Site  2121 Trumbull Ave.  (MHM)
Tready of Spring Wells  6325 West Jefferson  (MHM)
Trinity Episcopal Church  1519 Martin Luther King Blvd
Trinity Lutheran Church  1345 Gratiot Ave.  (MHM)
Turkel House  2760 Seven Mile Road
U. S. Topographical Engineers  170 East Jefferson  (MHM)
United Sound Systems Recording Studios  5840 Second Street (MHM)
University of Detroit High School  8400 South Cambridge
University of Michigania  500 Woodward Ave.
Vision Building  600 Woodward Ave
War of 1812 in Detroit  Washington Blvd  (MHM)
Wayne County Courthouse  600 Randolph
Wayne State University  Cass Avenue  (MHM)
West Canfield Historic District  (MHM)
WGPR-TV  3146 East Jefferson (MHM)
Wheeler Center  3146 East Jefferson  (MHM)
William Ferguson Homesite  661 Alfred Street (MHM)
William Lambert Homesite  Larned east of St. Aubin  (MHM)
Women's Club of Detroit  2110 Park Street  (MHM)
Woodward East Historic District Brush Park
Zion Lutheran Church  4305 Military Avenue  (MHM)
 
 
MHM=Michigan Historical Marker