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Early Detroit
It is one hundred and fifty-seven years ago to-day since De la Motte Cadillac, with fifty soldiers and fifty artisans and laborers, descending the river in Indian canoes, landed at this spot and commenced the erection of a fort, which was called Fort Pontchartrain, from the distinguished French minister of that name. It owed its foundation, and, for ten years, its continued existence to the zeal, energy and indefatigable exertions of De la Motte Cadillac, one of the most remarkable of all those distinguished men who have indissolubly
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