Guide and souvenir of Detroit .. . rnK ? ^< MEMORANDA TO BE MEMORIZED A deposit in bank Waste & Want are Gives standing and rank Still in partnership. Bt^K OFTEN LEADS TO LOol\ He who has silver aheadWill not fear silver hairs. ayne flounty Oavingsell [lonsidered jjafe 38 I UnMK nK THK FRIKNKLKSS Fort Shelby, with the surrounding military reserve, werethen relinquished by the United States to the lands covered nearly twelve blocks in the very centerof the city, and the reservation had been a formidableobstacle to growth and improvement. The Fort properlay betwe
Guide and souvenir of Detroit .. . rnK ? ^< MEMORANDA TO BE MEMORIZED A deposit in bank Waste & Want are Gives standing and rank Still in partnership. Bt^K OFTEN LEADS TO LOol\ He who has silver aheadWill not fear silver hairs. ayne flounty Oavingsell [lonsidered jjafe 38 I UnMK nK THK FRIKNKLKSS Fort Shelby, with the surrounding military reserve, werethen relinquished by the United States to the lands covered nearly twelve blocks in the very centerof the city, and the reservation had been a formidableobstacle to growth and improvement. The Fort properlay between what is now Fort and Lafayette, Griswoldand Wayne Streets. The grading down of the Fort embankment, the fillingin at the same time of the low lands along the river, theopening of numerous new streets, and the platting and ex-posing to sale by the city, at nominal prices, of hundreds ofthe newly acquired lots platted from the old Fort grounds,marked a distinct era in the citys life, and afforded thelargest inducement that had been offered for new citizens. During the next decade the population increased overfour hundred per cent, the emigration from the Easternand New England States was unprecedented, and amountedalmost to a mania; fleets of steamboats that outnumberedthose now ar
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