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Subject: Re: [MIWAYNE] Looking for a Detroit street name or Index, please
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:33:16 +0000
Hello Al,
Here are some street names from 1937 Detroit City Directory.
Dagger, Dally, Daly, Dalson, Davis, Davenport
Page 52Davenport, D'Bay, Deal, Dean, De Bruyn, Defrane, Demill, Dennis, Desnoyer
Page 53Dequindre, Dickinson, Dickson, Disbrow, Dicher, Dolson, Donnelly, Doolan, Dorr, Dorset, Doty, Dougherty, Doyle, Drew, Drior, Dubois, Dunn, Dushane, Dwight, Dwier
Try www.DistantCousin.Com
I googled for List Detroit MI City Streets........take a look, found something I did not know about.
Also, try other City Directories. When the e-ways went through Detroit a lot of the streets were excavated or parts of them.
Do you know if said street was on the East or West side of Detroit. Woodward avenue old US10 (now renumbered) divides the East and West.
Wayne County of which Detroit City is in is the largest populated county in the State of MI. Used to work for State, all other counties were consider "outcouties."
Good Luck hope this helps
Therese
-------------- Original message --------------
From: Al Henderson <>
> Hello, all;
>
> [First, a mini-rant ... then, my actual request, in the second
> paragraph. *grin*]
> Well, after spending about four hours online, I have been utterly unable
> to find a street map of Detroit and/or a streetname index. I have tried
> Tourism Michigan (or whatever it's called), the City of Detroit,
> University of Michigan, Map Detroit, Detroit Public Library, Michigan
> GenWeb and others. This is pathetic! All they (the City or whomever)
> need to do is scan a map and put it online as a PDF file so we can zoom
> in & out. Ah, well ... pardon my venting.
>
> Anyhow ... I have my grandfather's border-crossing card (from Ontario
> into Detroit, in 1923). It lists the address he's going to, in
> Detroit. But, as 'luck' would have it, that part is very hard to read.
> It looks like 9219 Dinas or Dinson Lane ... or something. If anyone has
> a Detroit map with index and can have a look for a road with a name
> along those lines, I'd sure appreciate it.
>
> I would love to, then, find out who lived there - who he was going to
> live with ... but I won't get far, without the street name. Eh?
> (*grin*) Thanks a bunch, folks!
>
> Cheers -
> Al Henderson
> Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada
>
>
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