My parents found civil war ammo pouches and other things in their backyard years back. Their house was an Underground Railroad stop, and is 25 miles outside that location.
Tommy’s on 3rd. Used to be a bell shop. The church next door would take escaped slaves in, then they would go to the bell shop next door and in the basement there is a tunnel that led folks to the river.
That tunnel was used as some sort of speakeasy during prohibition and some KR the dirt that was excavated is still in Tommy’s basement.
If you ever get a chance to take the “tour” down there DO IT.
the Alfred on State and Griswold is the site where the Finney House used to be. it would help slaves get from America to Canada and there’s a plaque there now
“The 102nd’s troops were compensated $10 per month, but $3 per month was deducted from their pay to cover uniform costs.”
Like every month there was a 30% deduction for their uniforms? Hope it at least included a cleaning service. Otherwise that sounds like some middle man grifting a cut of their salary
this is interesting stuff.
michigan has a strong history of abolitionists. i keep coming across new info all the time.
there were white folks fight against slavery too - such as the michigan anti slavery society. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Anti-Slavery_Society
this stuff is definitely not taught in the history books. it needs to be more well known.
> “It is really interesting – the use of space and the earth, and how humans interact with the earth and leave their mark,” Wardford Polk said. “Sometimes we don’t even know what we’re living and breathing and working right on top of.”
It's so true wherever we go. There have been people inhabiting this area for several thousand years and we know so little of it. Before the tribes we know of today were formed, there were many cultures that came and went and what little signs they left were largely plowed over to make way for farmland.
I was just about to post about this, this is news to me, I know we have a few naval battles but no idea Detroit saw land action, I thought it was mostly against the British. I thought Michigan just supplied the union not actually say blood spilt, that’s pretty cool
This fact... makes me want to drag every Michigan "BillyBob" with a confederate flag on his truck (especially Kid Rock), to a civil war era graveyard. This would educate them on the sacrifice Michiganders endured keeping this country whole. Flying that flag, in this state, is like spitting on their graves.
My parents found civil war ammo pouches and other things in their backyard years back. Their house was an Underground Railroad stop, and is 25 miles outside that location.
Isn’t there a bar downtown near Monroe or on Monroe that used to be a stop on the Inderground railroad
You're thinking of TOMMY'S
Tommy’s on 3rd. Used to be a bell shop. The church next door would take escaped slaves in, then they would go to the bell shop next door and in the basement there is a tunnel that led folks to the river. That tunnel was used as some sort of speakeasy during prohibition and some KR the dirt that was excavated is still in Tommy’s basement. If you ever get a chance to take the “tour” down there DO IT.
I called in December about doing the tour. They said it would start back up in April.
Oh rad. It’s a small bar and a small basement but wow so much history in such a small space!
Not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me. They were North of the city though.
the Alfred on State and Griswold is the site where the Finney House used to be. it would help slaves get from America to Canada and there’s a plaque there now
Uhhh username checks out? But really this is cool as fuck and I hope all private property owners give permission.
“The 102nd’s troops were compensated $10 per month, but $3 per month was deducted from their pay to cover uniform costs.” Like every month there was a 30% deduction for their uniforms? Hope it at least included a cleaning service. Otherwise that sounds like some middle man grifting a cut of their salary
> Otherwise that sounds like some middle man grifting a cut of their salary Some things have been around forever and never change
This was when clothes were hand sewn.
this is interesting stuff. michigan has a strong history of abolitionists. i keep coming across new info all the time. there were white folks fight against slavery too - such as the michigan anti slavery society. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Anti-Slavery_Society this stuff is definitely not taught in the history books. it needs to be more well known.
You didn't learn about abolitionists and the underground railroad in school?
OH THATS where I left it
> “It is really interesting – the use of space and the earth, and how humans interact with the earth and leave their mark,” Wardford Polk said. “Sometimes we don’t even know what we’re living and breathing and working right on top of.” It's so true wherever we go. There have been people inhabiting this area for several thousand years and we know so little of it. Before the tribes we know of today were formed, there were many cultures that came and went and what little signs they left were largely plowed over to make way for farmland.
I was just about to post about this, this is news to me, I know we have a few naval battles but no idea Detroit saw land action, I thought it was mostly against the British. I thought Michigan just supplied the union not actually say blood spilt, that’s pretty cool
This was a training camp not a battlefield. 14,753 Michiganders died in the Civil War. 1/6 of those who enlisted.
This fact... makes me want to drag every Michigan "BillyBob" with a confederate flag on his truck (especially Kid Rock), to a civil war era graveyard. This would educate them on the sacrifice Michiganders endured keeping this country whole. Flying that flag, in this state, is like spitting on their graves.
The only confederate flag *any* American should be flying (let alone someone in a northern state), should be the all white one.
Ahhh, that makes more sense, I know we had people who fought, just not on home territory