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Detroit, Michigan"Detroit" redirects here. There is also Detroit, Maine. Detroit is a city located in Wayne County in the state of Michigan, in the north-east of the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 951,270. Located between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie, it is the seat of Wayne County. Detroit and its suburbs are the home of the modern American automobile industry, the Big Three:Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Chrysler. They are also home to two major pizza chains, and motown, Punk, and techno music. Detroit has several sister cities including Toyota, Japan; Minsk, Belarus; Chongqing, China; Nassau, Bahamas and Kitwe, Zambia.
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1760 Major Robert Rogers[?] and a group of his Roger's Rangers takes formal command of Fort Detroit in the name of Great Britain after the French defeat in the French and Indian War.
1763 Chief Pontiac besieges Detroit during Pontiac's Rebellion[?].
1796 American control over Detroit established, 13 years after it was assigned by treaty to the United States at the end of the American Revolutionary War.
1903 Ford Motor Company founded by Henry Ford in Detroit.
1950 Detroit's population reaches it height at 1.6 million.
1963 Great March to Freedom
1967 A race riot lasts for 5 days and leaves 43 dead.
1968 "Focus: Hope" project founded.
1974 Civil rights activist Coleman Young is elected Detroit's first black mayor - a position he holds for 20 years.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 370.2 km² (142.9 mi²). 359.4 km² (138.8 mi²) of it is land and 10.8 km² (4.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 2.92% water.
Major parks include Belle Isle, Palmer Park, Rouge Park, Chene Park. Other city recreational facilities include municipal golf courses (William Rogell, Rouge, Belle Isle, Palmer Park), Northwest Activities Center, Detroit Zoo[?], Belle Isle Zoo, Belle Isle Aquarium. Cultural centers include Detroit Institute of Art[?], Museum of African American History, Detroit Science Center, Detroit Historical Museum, Motown Historical Museum, Tuskegee Airman[?] Museum, Historic Fort Wayne[?], Dossin Great Lakes Museum, and the Belle Isle Conservatory.
Detroit is home to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Detroit Opera House.
There are 336,428 households out of which 33.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.7% are married couples living together, 31.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 35.1% are non-families. 29.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.77 and the average family size is 3.45.
In the city the population is spread out with 31.1% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 29.5% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 10.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 31 years. For every 100 females there are 89.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.5 males.
The median income for a household in the city is $29,526, and the median income for a family is $33,853. Males have a median income of $33,381 versus $26,749 for females. The per capita income for the city is $14,717. 26.1% of the population and 21.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 34.5% are under the age of 18 and 18.6% are 65 or older.
The Detroit International Marathon course crosses the border into Canada on a bridge and returns to America through a tunnel.
but pulled in among the reeds, into the sunshine. The peaceful
the vague and poetic. In the field beyond the bank where her skiff
hay. She watched the grass cascading over and behind the light
swish blended with the rustle of the willows and the poplars, and the
deep green water, weeds, like yellow snakes, were writhing and nosing
lazily swishing their tails. It was an afternoon to dream. And she
recital of things seen and done by a longing very agreeable to her,
desires were ever concrete and concentrated, but what poetry there
weeks of waiting gathered round her memories of Jon. They all
enjoyed him in the scents absorbed by her crinkling nose. The stars
the map of Spain; and of an early morning the dewy cobwebs, the hazy
personified to her.
Two white swans came majestically by, while she was reading his
just so much water between each tail and head, a flotilla of grey
pulled up to the landing-stage. Crossing the lawn, she wondered
it from the butler, he might think it odd if she did not. It gave
feud. She went, therefore, up the road to meet him.
Soames had gone to look at a patch of ground on which the Local
lungs. Faithful to his native individualism, he took no part in
He could not, however, remain indifferent to this new and dangerous
quite of opinion that the country should stamp out tuberculosis; but
indeed, an attitude common to all true Forsytes, that disability of
its business without prejudicing in any way the natural advantages
Forsyte of his generation (except perhaps that fellow Jolyon) had
.
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