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Tour of the Detroit Historical Museum
5401 Woodward Ave. • Detroit, Michigan U.S.A.
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BY ROBERT POWELL / ©AMERICAJR.com
Native
Americans traded pelts and other animals for European-made tools,
blankets, iron pots, rifles and other goods.
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BY ROBERT POWELL / ©AMERICAJR.com
A statue of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who founded Fort Ponchartrain
du Détroit in 1701, which later became the city of Detroit.
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BY ROBERT POWELL / ©AMERICAJR.com
Ask
any visitor what they remember most about the Detroit Historical
Museum and their response will probably be “The Streets of
Old Detroit.”
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BY ROBERT POWELL / ©AMERICAJR.com
As
visitors walk through the exhibit, they feel like they’re
walking back in time.
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BY ROBERT POWELL / ©AMERICAJR.com
As
the museum’s signature exhibit, “the Streets”
transport visitors to 19th and early 20th century Detroit through
a visit to commercial shop settings furnished with artifacts from
the 1840s to early 1900s.
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BY ROBERT POWELL / ©AMERICAJR.com
As visitors move back in time, the street lights turn
to oil lamps, the streets themselves turn from brick to wood
and finally to cobblestone back in the 1840s section of the
exhibit.
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