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Detroit 1820 BY EPHRAIM S. WILLIAMS
The traveler thence to Grosse Pointe will pass the scene of the terrible battle in which an Indian tribe was almost annihilated in 1712, at Presque Isle, now Windmill Point, and will find some old habitations at Grosse Pointe and about L'Anse Creuse, the little bay beyond.
OLD LANDMARKS III.
The saunter along Jefferson avenue brought us to one or two points of antiquarian interest at the crossing of Woodward. Only a square below this, at the southwest corner of Woodbridge and Woodward, opposite the Mariner's church, is the first known site of the Detroit post office, where Judge Abbott, who held the post mastership from 1806 to 1831, dispensed for many years the hatful of letters and papers that made up the mail for the settlement. The office afterwards occupied the first floor of a building on the Mariner's church corner. A few rods below this and seventy seven feet above Atwater street, was the margin of the river in the days preceding the improvements along a few blocks of the city front.
Walk now two' squares up Woodward, turn to the right on Larnard one block, and view with reverent regard the oldest church building, by far, left standing in the city, and still occupied for religious purposes. * The present Ste. Anne's church, at least the fourth or fifth of the name in Detroit, is lineal descendant of the little log-and-bark building whose erection was begun by Cadillac's people within the stockade about Port Pontchartrain the second day after landing. The venerable stone pile at Laniard and Bates was commenced in 1817. but not finished till 1832. though occupied long before. The devoted Father Richard, whose statue appears on the east front of the city hall, contributed his entire pay as delegate in Congress towards its building.
Detroit Michigan
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