Downriver Michigan: Ice Age to Today

Downriver Has Two Bicentennials Part One Winters that Lasted for Thousands of Years Great Lakes Formed by the Glaciers Gifts from the Ice Age The First Americans Hunters and Gatherers How Do We Know What Happened Hundreds or Thousands of Years Ago? The Earth Records its Own Story Two Other Kinds of ‟Ologists” Carbon Dating Whales in the Detroit River? Prehistoric Downriver Indians Explorers and Missionaries Travel on Our River LaSalle and Hennepin Downriver Becomes a Part of New France The Ribbon Farms The Wyandotts Come to the Detroit River Britain Ousts France from North America Pontiac Plans a Conspiracy Part Two The Americanization of Michigan British Base at Detroit Used for Attacks on Kentuckians Fighting in the American Revolution Ends—But Britain Hangs on to Michigan Forts Stars and Stripes Over Michigan For the First Time Indian Confederation Meets at Brownstown The War of 1812 Perry Builds a Fleet and Defeats the British The American Flag Returns to Michigan Father Richard 1818—The Wyandotte Move to Flat Rock When Cash Was Scarce Part Three Into the 20th Century Michigan Votes for Statehood . . . After 140 Years Wyandotte Leave Downriver Building of Soo Locks Changes Downriver History Wyandotte—A Whole New Town is Planned, Built and inhabited! When Abe Lincoln’s Ship Ran Aground Off Our Shore Downriver Gets its First Bank Yet to Be Invented or Discovered in 1876 Downriver Shipyards The One-room Schoolhouse Salt Beds Beneath Our Land and River How Ships Find Their Way on Our River at Night This is What Brought the Greatest Changes of All Downriver Cities and Villages Visit These Museums The Wyandott Totem Pole