Who’s celebrating his bicentennial tomorrow? THIS GUY! Stevens Thomson Mason is one of my all-time favorite characters from Detroit history. Determined! Dreamy! Stubborn! Stylish! Triumphant! Tragic! The boy governor had it all. This time last year we were re-interring Stevens T. Mason for the FOURTH time. Buried first in New York City after his...
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Stevens T. Mason celebrates the big 2-0-0
by amy • October 26, 2011 • Events, History • 4 Comments
Settlers beware
by amy • June 10, 2011 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History, Uncategorized • 1 Comment
Fake eviction notices in Detroit. From 1837.
Read more →Thinking about Presidents
by amy • February 21, 2011 • History, Holidays • 0 Comments
James Monroe: the first President to visit Detroit. Also: last President to wear the old Revolutionary tri-corner. Unanticipated intelligence was received, about 8 A.M., that President Monroe, with Governor Cass and Generals Brown and Macomb with their suites, were at the mouth of the river, and would be within three miles of the city...
Read more →Scenes from Stevens T. Mason’s reburial
by amy • October 28, 2010 • Events, History • 0 Comments
A small crowd gathered in Capitol Park yesterday to honor Stevens T. Mason, Michigan's first and America's youngest governor, on his 199th birthday.
Read more →Stevens T. Mason to be reburied on Wednesday
by amy • October 24, 2010 • dreams, History • 4 Comments
How many opportunities do you have in a lifetime to attend the solemn rite of governor’s burial? How many of those opportunities involve a governor who died 167 years ago? A governor that fought to found your state? The youngest governor ever? A governor whose nickname was Young Hotspur? You see where we’re going with...
Read more →Walking with Stevens T. Mason to Capitol Park
by amy • June 30, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 3 Comments
Yesterday, of course, the world was rocked by the announcement that Boy Governor Stevens T. Mason‘s remains, originally presumed to be — well, you know, in his grave — were MIA. The situation grew stranger by the hour as reports surfaced that no one even knew if they were looking for a coffin or an urn...
Read more →General Friend Palmer and The First State Election in Detroit
by amy • May 12, 2010 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
The Napoleon of Detroit auctioneers, a schooner on wheels, laughing gas at Michigan Gardens and the lost pomp of gubernatorial election season.
Read more →173 years of Michigan statehood
by amy • January 26, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 1 Comment
(From an 1835 atlas) On January 26, 1837, nearly 150 years after the earliest known use of the name “Michigan” on a map, Michigan was officially admitted to the Union. For a long time I had this confused, baseless idea that territories just sort of naturally, peacefully shook out into states, in rapid succession,...
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