Why are we called "Wolverines"? You've heard the stories about the Toledo War and greedy land-grabbing settlers. Here's one more idea, from an old tavern in Dearborn.
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Posts Tagged ‘early days in detroit’
One reason we might be called “Wolverines”
by amy • March 12, 2012 • Books, History • 1 Comment
Captain Chelsea Blake tries, fails to avoid cholera
by amy • January 20, 2012 • History • 0 Comments
''Blake ... stood in mortal fear of death and from the cholera in particular. He went to Milwaukee to escape the latter, but unfortunately he did not.''
Read more →General Friend Palmer’s scrapbooks
by amy • June 17, 2011 • Books, General Friend Palmer • 0 Comments
A voice from the past corrects the historical record.
Read more →Detroit historians on weddings and marriages
by amy • February 2, 2011 • General Friend Palmer, History, Weddings • 3 Comments
Silas Farmer and General Friend Palmer on early French weddings and the shadow of mortality in marriage.
Read more →Christmas with General Friend Palmer
by amy • December 22, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, Books, History, Holidays • 0 Comments
Festive Christmas traditions from early Detroit, as related by General Friend Palmer. Pony races, mince pies and all-night noise-making.
Read more →The Fourth of July in Early Detroit: FIREBALLS!
by amy • July 1, 2010 • History • 3 Comments
Some danger to hands and some to property.
Read more →Tuesday with General Friend Palmer: The Lost Dauphin
by amy • April 19, 2010 • Books, History • 0 Comments
Some Princes on a Dauphin-hunt visit Detroit in 1841, and buy some French books.
Read more →Tuesdays with General Friend Palmer: Goose Yokes
by amy • March 29, 2010 • Books, History • 0 Comments
The remarkable story of a French immigrant, swindled into coming to America, finding himself in Detroit, starting a general store, and selling some legendary goose yokes. Also marbles.
Read more →Thomas W. Palmer, and his Park
by amy • March 10, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 6 Comments
A rustic log cabin, a massive Italianate marble fountain and an 18th-century bell from Spain at Senator Thomas W. Palmer's park.
Read more →Fridays with General Friend Palmer: “Convenience itself”
by amy • February 5, 2010 • Books, History • 5 Comments
IN the earlier days the streets of Detroit in the absence pavements were very bad in the fall and spring seemed to predominate Cabs and public hacks were in a very lim ted number Peter Cooper colored Jackson a colored barber and George lierron an English barber were about the only persons owning and...
Read more →Fridays with General Friend Palmer: A most exciting fire
by amy • January 28, 2010 • Art, Books, Culture, History • 5 Comments
I have always approached weekly themed blog posts, especially those involving alliteration, with trepidation. But then I found Early Days in Detroit, the memoirs of historical Detroit old guy General Friend Palmer (1820 – 1906), and I can’t think of any better way to dig through its 1000+ pages, each of them host to...
Read more →WHO WAS SILAS FARMER?
by amy • January 20, 2010 • Books, Local History, metro Detroit • 4 Comments
UPDATE: Silas Farmer’s death certificate is in the Michigan state archives. He died suddenly on December 28, 1902, apparently of a heart attack. He was living in present-day midtown, at 52 Selden, and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. Next stop, as my mom sassily pointed out to me on Twitter (MOMS ON TWITTER!!), is...
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