The following stories were originally published in The Detroit News two days after the Titanic sank. NO MORE SURVIVORS OF TITANIC ON SHIPS THAT REACHED SCENE Carpathia, With 868, Will Reach New York Thursday; Further News Expected to Come From Her; 1,241 Missing. MAIN DETAILS OF GREATEAST MARITIME DISASTER IN HISTORY OF WORLD … Continue Reading →
By Bill Loomis / Special to The Detroit News Celebrations of Christmas in Detroit over the centuries have been highlighted by feasts and charity, toys and trees — and fires caused by lighted candles on those trees. Although Protestant churches in Detroit did not embrace the Christmas holiday until the 1840s, it was long celebrated … Continue Reading →
The Detroit News Detroit’s Fox Theatre, site of the 2002 Fash Bash, is one of America’s shining success stories. Rescued from decay in the late 1980s, the theater sparked creation of Detroit’s cultural center. Elizabeth Conley / The Detroit News “The Detroit Fox is the most spectacular, over-the-top movie palace ever built,” says Ray Shepardson, … Continue Reading →
Dr. Ossian Sweet purchased this Detroit home on Garland and Charlevoix so he could bring up his daughter in good surroundings. “I have to die a man or live a coward.” With these words, a mild-mannered black Detroit physician set in motion forces that would result in a dramatic milestone in America’s civil rights movement, … Continue Reading →
An artist’s rendering of the landing of French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac at Detroit in 1701. On July 24, 1701 Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac founded the French colony and town of Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit at the area now near Shelby and Griswold streets. His wife Madame Cadillac and a Madame … Continue Reading →
The British freighter Montrose became the first major ship to sink in the Detroit River since the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. On a warm summer night in 1962, a gleaming white British freighter slipped its moorings at a Detroit dock and made for the upbound Detroit River channel for the long trip to … Continue Reading →
The Edmund Fitzgerald is about to be launched at the Great Lakes Engineering Shipyard in River Rouge just prior to her launching in June 1958. Fierce autumn storms on the Great Lakes have claimed their victims for centuries. Thousands of vessels have sunk and countless lives have been lost. Native Americans and the French voyageurs … Continue Reading →
La Riviere du Detroit: The Bellin Atlas map of the Detroit River with inset “Plan du Fort du Detroit.” On June 14, 1671, the Sieur de St. Lusson (in the presence of three Jesuits, 16 lay Frenchmen and several hundred Indians) took possession for France of “Lake Superior, Lake Huron and all contiguous countries, streams, … Continue Reading →
Not only did the rival Detroit Times beat the News to the street with its extra on the robbery, it showed that it had people freely roaming the News building when it ran a detailed map of the payroll department.At right is the next day’s edition of the Times with stories detailing the police chase … Continue Reading →
The SS Tashmoo cruises down the river with a Detroit News Excursion in thesummer of 1936. It was remarkable that old rivermen should be so persistent in predicting the Tashmoo was bound to come to a bad end. Never did an excursion steamer have more glory in her early years. But the Tashmoo was a … Continue Reading →