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Detroit Urbanism: Radial Avenues Part V: Grand River
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016. Radial Avenues Part V: Grand River. Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library. Grand River Avenue, the fifth radial avenue to be extended from Detroit, was built to connect the city to the point where the Grand River flows into Lake Michigan. Like Gratiot Avenue, this road roughly follows the same angle as some of the avenues in Augustus Woodward's Plan of Detroit, but it was not actually built where any main avenue was planned. On December 15, 1825, the Michigan Ter...
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Detroit Urbanism: Other Mounds in Metro Detroit
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Monday, January 4, 2016. Other Mounds in Metro Detroit. Although I have yet to discuss "urbanism," I'd like to write a little more about other Native American earthworks once located in Metropolitan Detroit. There were too many to fit into in my last entry. But their stories are an important part of our history. The first attempt to document all known Native American archaeological sites in the state was Wilbert Hinsdale's Archaeological Atlas of the State of Michigan. Hinsdale counted five mounds, inclu...
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Detroit Urbanism: Radial Avenues Part III: Michigan Ave.
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Monday, September 19, 2016. Radial Avenues Part III: Michigan Ave. Avenues, its origins are rooted in Augustus B. Woodward's Plan of Detroit, early US Military highways, and centuries-old Native American footpaths. In black: Philu E. Judd's 1824 rendition of the Woodward Plan. In red: John Mullett's 1830 subdivision of the Military Reserve. In yellow: Michigan Avenue's original proportions. The Great Sauk Trail. Source: Spooner, Harry L. The Other End of the Great Sauk Trail. Like many ancient footpaths,...
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About - Zelda and the Unibrows
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Zelda and the Unibrows. Obscure nerdery since 1996. Zelda and the Unibrows is a quirky multimedia music project from Detroit. It has taken many forms over the years, including albums, videos, blogs and zines. Read on for individual bios, see the chronology. For an in-depth catalog of our body of works, go straight to video. Or straight to music. Joseph C. Krause. And can typically be found deep within the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Main Library or fixing up century-old houses.
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Detroit Urbanism: Radial Avenues Part I: Jefferson
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Monday, June 27, 2016. Radial Avenues Part I: Jefferson. The arrangement of Detroit's main avenues, radiating from the center of the city like the spokes of a wheel, is often attributed to Augustus Woodward's Plan of Detroit, devised between 1805-1807. This is not completely accurate. When you compare today's radial avenues to early renditions of the Woodward Plan, it's clear that the two are not completely in sync. The first pieces of the radial system to be laid out (if only on paper) were one mile of ...
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Detroit Urbanism: The Park Lots
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017. Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. Following the great fire of 1805, the US Congress passed " An act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and Territory of Michigan, and for other purposes. Woodward Plan lot outlines copied from an image by Flickr user whitewall buick. The Park Lots as surveyed, and as they should have been. The auction occurred as scheduled on March 6, 1806. William McDowell Scott, a lawyer, acted as au...
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Detroit Urbanism: Woodward Plan Part II: Dawn of the Radial City
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Monday, April 25, 2016. Woodward Plan Part II: Dawn of the Radial City. This article is the second of a three-part series. Click here. To read part one. The Woodward Plan" by Kati Belz. An Adjustment of Titles". Thanks to Woodward's lobbying. Congress passed " An act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and Territory of Michigan, and for other purposes. On April 21, 1806. This law authorized the territorial government to:. The Bases of the Town". Which codified the Woodw...
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Detroit Urbanism: Radial Avenues Part IV: Gratiot
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Monday, October 31, 2016. Radial Avenues Part IV: Gratiot. Like Woodward, West Jefferson, and Michigan Avenues, Gratiot Avenue was established in the early 19th century as a military road. But unlike previous radial avenues, it wasn't an extension of a radial avenue on the Woodward Plan, and it did not coincide with an Indian trail. An 1839 plan of Fort Gratiot. Image courtesy of Seeking Michigan. On the subject of military roads stated in part:. T]o give that quarter of the country [Michigan] the securi...
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