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Unearthed Marker Plotted Detroit's Future Growth

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: J. Barrett
21 May 2003 - 6:00am

Long buried, 200-year-old pillar marks start of Detroit's mile roads.

Almost 200 years ago, after Detroit had burned to the ground, Judge Augustus Woodward plotted out a new metropolis. As the linchpin, the city's first urban planners buried a 6-foot granite pillar at Woodward and Michigan, from which surveyors have extended streets, mile roads and the city limits for decades.

Full Story: Buried pillar helped planners shape whole area
Source: The Detroit Free Press, May 20, 2003
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