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Reminscences of early Michigan History 1800's
The first steamboat upon Lake Erie, the " Walk-in-the-Water," visited Detroit in the summer of 1818. She was a great wonder to the French and Indians, in fact to us all, being the first I or any of our family had seen. I recollect one circumstance which I never shall forget. The steamer landed at what was then " Wing's wharf," at the foot of Bates street, originally built by Henry Hudson and called "Hudson's wharf." It was built on bents And planked over, about ten feet wide, running to the channel; at the end was a large pier, with an ice-break, laid of square timber and filled with stone, also a pier built in same way about half way, and carts could drive out there, turn round, fill their barrels with pure water and water the city.
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