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History of Detroit

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The city's name originates from the Detroit linking Lake Huron and Lake Erie; in the historical context, the strait included Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River.

There, in 1701, the French officer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac, along with fifty-one additional French-Canadians, founded a settlement called Fort Ponchartrain du Détroit, naming it after the comte de Pontchartrain, Minister of Marine under Louis XIV. France offered free land in an effort to attract families to Detroit, which grew to 800 people in 1765, the largest city between

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