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HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS CONNECTED WITH WYANDOTTE AND
VICINITY BY DR. E. P. CHRISTIAN
Wyandotte, then, with its liberal supply of churches, its generous school accommodations and its various social and beneficiary organizations, offers the means and instrumentalities of ministering to the various needs and aspirations of modern civilized communities, religious, educational and social.
In conclusion, if less than the last half century, I might almost say the last quarter, has seen the increasing business needs and enterprises reclaiming, improving and occupying for business purposes at least twelve of the twenty-four miles of the American shore of the strait, (excepting perhaps a couple of miles of front at Detroit still unoccupied) how long will it be before the business needs, advancing in geometrical ratio, will have occupied the whole of the remaining border? Already Detroit extends her manufactories to the Rouge and along its borders. The three miles of Ecorse's marshes must coon be reclaimed and occupied. Who then can doubt that in the not distant future the modern but more magnificent Byzantium, the product of a higher civilization, will extend itself along the whole of the borders of this western Bosphorus, embracing at least in connecting suburbs all the at present distinct but nearly contiguous towns? These appellations are appropriated not by a mere seeming geographical similarity, but more justifiably by historical parallels. For here, like to its eastern prototype, has been the point of crossing of national boundaries by hostile armies. And as the former during the 2. 500- years of its historical existence has been under dominion of Greek, Persian, Roman and Turk, so the latter in less than 200 years of settlement has acknowledged the sway of Aborigine, French, English and finally American.
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