#gratiot

[detroitlib]

Interior of a saloon at 86 Gratiot Avenue in Detroit, at left is the bar with cash register and bottles of alcohol, at right are tables, with spittoons on floor. Recorded in glass negative ledger: "D/Saloons."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[walkingdetroit]

Sunday on Gratiot

Walking along Gratiot to Eastern Market.

[impermanent-art]

‘Guardians of the Neighborhood’

Spectacular work by Pat Perry for the 2017 edition of Detroit's Murals In The Market.

[speakspeak]

Gratiot Drive-In

[mydetroitshit]

082923

today i did so many errands and went to therapy for the last time this summie! my therapist love to big up me :)

i have decided to try and get that bright pink out of my hair, one of my sagittarius traits is when i see too many ppl doing what i'm doing i have to do something else lol #TOXIC

this is the silver dye i bought lol and this is the gratiot whale idk why it is here but whale murals have become a talking point in detroit

[dailylighthouse]

Fort Gratiot Lighthouse

Port Huron, Michigan, United States

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Constructed: 1825

Automated: 1933

Have a favorite lighthouse? Curious about lighthouses in general? Send an ask!

[conandaily2022]

What Fort Gratiot Township, Michigan's Douglas Laming did to Karen Umphrey in 1980  

Karen Marie Umphrey of Smiths Creek, Kimball Township, Saint Clair County, Michigan, United States was 21 when she was found dead in the State Game Area of Beards Hills, Michigan on November 2, 1980. She is Sylva Umphrey‘s daughter. Honored Othram could assist the Michigan State Police & St. Clair Sheriff's Department in identifying the suspect in the 1980 murder of 21-year-old Karen Umphrey.…

[eirene]

Mrs. Charles Gratiot, 1829 Thomas Sully

[fxdltc88]

Michigan's first trails were not made by native Americans but ranging buffalo herds in migration. This was especially true on the St. Joseph trail in Southwest Michigan. The major trails in lower Michigan tended to link Indian settlements of Mackinac, Detroit, Saginaw, and Niles. The area around Saginaw had the most native American settlements in the Great Lakes region.

Noted below are native trails that we travel everyday.

Shore Line Trail - A minor trail starting near Toledo and hugging Lake Erie's shore, the Straits of Detroit. Past Fort Gratiot and Lake Huron to a spot near White Rock. White Rock was considered a solemn spiritual place of offering. Today this route is mirrored by Lakeshore Drive from Detroit to Lexington and M-25 north. This trail continues north along the entire shore to Cheboygan. It was considered a minor trail as travel via canoe was preferred along this route. Michigan chose to utilize much of the original Native American trail along Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay to create M-25. Paving of Michigan's First Scenic Highway was started in 1933 and completed in 1940.

Saginaw Trail - One of the oldest trails, this Sauk trail system, went from the Straits of Detroit to Saginaw. Today this starts at the Detroit River and heads northwest up Woodward Avenue to Pontiac, then continues up Dixie Highway through Flint to Saginaw.

Sand Ridge Indian Trail - An ancient trail from Saginaw to Port Austin in Michigan's Thumb. Used primarily for access to the rich hunting ground of the Thumb. Today, M-25 follows much of the same route. However, the old trail is still evident and marked as Sand Road in Huron County. A major canoe passage across Saginaw Bay occurred at Oak Point via Charity Island to reach the AuSable River.

St. Joseph's Trail - A major east-west system called Route du Sieur de la Salle and the Territorial Road. When the Territorial road was first built from Plymouth to St Joseph, a portion of the road was ‘corduroy.’ which means wood lo

[blacksoulkid]

Hiya!! Just a reminder that the preorder for these bad boys ends tomorrow (21st)!!

[20th-century-railroading]

Alton & Southern #1511 & #1510

SW 1500s 1511 & 1510 @ Gratiot Street Tower in St Louis, MO. (Jan. 1980)

[detroitlib]

View of an advertising card for Peter Koenig, depicting a woman wearing a hat. Printed on front: "Peter Koenig, wholesale and retail dealer in coal, coke, wood, charcoal. Main office, 368 Gratiot Ave. Telephone 345-2r."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[walkingdetroit]

Come On Up

[kcg69]

Munising, Negaunee, Houghton, Gratiot, Kaleva, Dowagiac, Ossineke, Escanaba, Mio, and so many more 😜

[intro-vertedn]

Fort Gratiot Lighthouse, Port Huron.

[rivertigo]

gratiot has an undeniable charm