Famous people's places / Detroit – Greektown
Second Baptist Church
Michigan's oldest Black congregation, founded in 1836, a key Underground Railroad station and the church where Ralph Bunche was baptized.
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Famous people's places / Detroit – Greektown
Michigan's oldest Black congregation, founded in 1836, a key Underground Railroad station and the church where Ralph Bunche was baptized.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Downtown
Closed – archive entryVaudeville house on Monroe Street opened in 1901 as part of the Wonderland entertainment complex, Harry Houdini's most frequent Detroit stage, later demolished for downtown redevelopment.
Famous people's places / Monroe
One of Michigan's oldest public cemeteries, established in 1810 in Monroe, where painter Robert S. Duncanson was buried in 1872.
Famous people's places / Detroit – Black Bottom
Closed – archive entryThe Dodge brothers' early machine-shop plant near downtown Detroit, where they built engines and transmissions for Olds and Ford before moving to Hamtramck in 1910.
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