• Posts Tagged ‘stevens t mason’

    Stevens T. Mason celebrates the big 2-0-0

    by  • October 26, 2011 • Events, History • 4 Comments

    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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    Thinking about Presidents

    by  • 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...

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    Stevens T. Mason to be reburied on Wednesday

    by  • 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...

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    173 years of Michigan statehood

    by  • January 26, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 2 Comments

    (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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