The Tragedy In Detroit

In 1760, with Detroit being their last outpost, the French surrendered Fort Pontchartrain, by then called Fort Detroit, to the British—and in 1796, the British gave Fort Detroit to the United States. Detroit, in retrospect, was much like Alaska—nobody really knew what they had.
In 1802, Detroit officially became a town—and all was well until the first hint of tragedy struck in 1805. At that point in her young history, Detroit was a thriving little burg with quaint shops, storybook bungalows, dirt streets, and plenty of candlelight.
On a hot July summer’s night, a fire started at the square dance party in John Harvey’s barn, through no fault of his own, and within hours all three hundred houses and buildings in the town, with the exception of John Harvey’s stone constructed home, burned to the ground. In contrast to future major tragedies the city would experience, there were no fatalities and no major injuries (although John Harvey came close, as he just managed to flee the angry mob in his hasty departure, to where many believed at the time to be Cleveland.
In 1815, Detroit was incorporated as a city and was soon to begin its climb to industrial fame. By the 1890s, Detroit had established
Although Mr. Ford has legendary status in our society, it is interesting to know what he did, and just as interesting to know what he did not do. He did not invent the gasoline engine. He did not invent the automobile, and he did not build the first fully operational automobile. What he did do took far more genius. He recognized the potential of the automobile as the future mode of transportation, replacing of course the horse and carriage, and he also envisioned the mass production of this “horseless carriage” as a means to put it within economic reach of the average worker. In short, Henry Ford put the world on