Detroit
Details
- Names
Detroit
Ville d'Étroit
Fort Pontchartrain Détroit
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Detroit river; French established fort & fur-trading post here in 1701; captured by British in French and Indian Wars in 1760; passed to US in 1796; destroyed by fire in 1805; city was rebuilt and flourished after introduction of steamboats.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
Thomas Michael Alleman (American, born 1958)
Loretta Bonnier Anawalt (American, 1934-2007)
Suzanne Duryea (American, born 1947)
Neil Farkas (American, born 1952)
Charles Garabedian (American, 1923-2016)
Roger Kukes (American, born 1944)
Louis Ocepek (American, born 1942)
- Active
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