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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... woodward avlnul in thl thirtils. trials of the pioneer residents I call to mind but a very few dwellings on Woodward Avenue in 1830, or for some years after. Where the Holden Road (now Palmer Avenue) came into Woodward was a dense forest; it seemed when you entered it as though you were about to explore the unknown. There is a small house now standing on the corner of Woodward and Warren Avenues that was there in 1830 and before. The Brush estate had a farm house at about Eliot Street, fronting on Woodward Avenue. Considerably later on, B. G. Stimson purchased quite a plot of ground on the corner of what is now Stimson Place, and on it erected the dwelling that is. there still. Many wondered why he went so far out when so many more eligible sites were available much nearer the city. Mr. Stimson and his wife were both young, genial and. being quite socially inclined, attracted the young, the gay and the dancing element to their hospitable residence. The only seeming drawback was the trouble getting there during the winter and spring, and sometimes it was more than seeming, as occasionally the snow or mud so blocked the avenue that it was quite an undertaking to do so, and taxed the capacity of the limited number of hacks and cabs to take care of the crowd. On these occasions the French cart was much in evidence. B. G. Stimson learned the ship chandlery business, or what the needs of a sailing craft were in that line, on a voyage around the Horn before the mast, and up along the South American coast, on a sailing vessel, collecting hides, etc. He was a fellow sailor with R. H. Dana, Jr., who wrote that highly entertaining book, "Two Years Before the Mast." Our esteemed townsman, Harry W...
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- PublisherGale Research Co
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0810340682
- ISBN 13 9780810340688
- BindingUnknown Binding
- Number of pages1032
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Early Days in Detroit Papers Written by General Friend Palmer of Detroit Being His Personal Reminiscences of Important Events and Descriptions of the City for Over Eighty Years
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Corners sharp, clean and bright hardcover facsimile reprint of the 1906 edition. Just a few of the chapter titles include My Arrival in Detroit May, 1827; Earlier Navigation on Lake and River; Slavery Days in Michigan; The Toledo War; Early Day Architecture; Old Hotels of Detroit; Detroit Merchants of Long Ago; Fighting Epidemics; When Woodward Avenue Was a Corduroy Road; To Pontiac By Way of Mt. Clemens; When Indians Were Hanged in Michigan; Keen Rivalry of Fire Fighters; The Cass Family; Dancing Teachers; Mr. John Owen; The Campau Family; F & T Palmer Stores; The Desnoyers Heirs; General Isaac DeGraff Toll; Persons Prominent in the City's Life; Recollections of Mexican War; Marriage and Death Notices; Buffalo to Detroit by Steamboat in 1821; The Fort Street Girls, etc., with chapters on the families of Navarre, St. Martin, Peltier, Labadie, Chapoton, Cicotte, Rivard, Lafferty, Riopelle, DuBois, St. Aubin, Chene, Lewis. Index.; MCN30459; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1032 pp. Seller Inventory # 37112
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Early Days of Detroit
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ISBN 10: 0810340682
ISBN 13: 9780810340688
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, clean blue cloth boards with sharp corners. 1032 pages, no markings or writing. Binding square and tight. Seller Inventory # NA-4229
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