He names the record company's center of operations - a two-story house at 2648 West Grand Boulevard - "Hitsville USA." And he isn't exaggerating. (Albert Duce/Creative Commons)īerry Gordy founds Motown Records. The crumbling Packard plant, in October 2009. It still stands today, a symbol of Detroit's long, slow decline. factory in Detroit, opened in 1903, is shuttered. The 3,500,000-square-foot Packard Motor Car Co. It is now headquartered in Auburn Hills, a Detroit suburb.ĭetroit's population hits 1.85 million, making it America's fourth-largest city, with 296,000 manufacturing jobs. Walter Chrysler starts the Chrysler Corp. automakers headquartered in Detroit proper.) (Today, GM is now the only one of the major U.S. William Durant and Charles Stewart Mott found General Motors in Flint, Mich., as a holding company for Buick. Olds opens Detroit's first auto manufacturing plant. Henry Ford test drives his first automobile on the streets of Detroit.įord establishes the Detroit Automobile Co., producing all of two cars before the company fails three years later. Over the years, Stroh's acquires several rival brands, including Schaefer, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, Lone Star, and Colt 45. The population in 1815 is about 850.ĭetroit adopts its forward-looking city motto: Speramus Meliora Resurget Cineribus ( We hope for better days it shall rise from the ashes).īernhard Stroh opens Stroh Brewery Company. It is incorporated as a city of Michigan territory in 1806, unincorporated in 1809, then reincorporated in 1815, this time for good. forces capture Detroit from the British.ĭetroit becomes a chartered city, covering about 20 acres. Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac establishes a French settlement, Fort Ponchartrain du Détroit (the strait), along with 100 French soldiers and an equal number of Algonquins.
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