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The history of the Detroit area begins many years ago, this section will provide as much information as we can gather about the history of the detroit area, this work will take many years to complete and even then will not be fully complete. Check Back often for new updates and more interesting information about the history of the detroit area.
More Than 400 million years ago, a huge sea covered the entire area from Michigan, Ontario and east to New York, since then the sea has dried up (evaporated) leaving a huge vein of salt under the entire detroit area.
The earliest know inhabitant of the detroit area is referred to as the mound builders, they were in the area even long before the 1700's as the early indians then didn't know much about them, their existance is only known by the mounds they left behind, rumor has it that some early indian tribes joined together to get them out of the area, one of these mounds can be found at Historical Fort Wayne in SW Detroit, a couple more were in the area but were since destroyed/removed for development, one of those was located along the Rouge River at the point where the Rouge River met with the Detroit River, it was know as the Great Rouge Mound and was about 400 feet long, 200 feet wide and 20 to 40 feet high.
The other was in Detroit around Springwells St., The mounds were burial sites and many skeletons and old indian artifacts have been found in the mounds, there are an estimated 500 to 600 mounds in Michigan alone.
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