Founded in 1921, we manage the Detroit Historical Museum, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, and a collection of 250,000+ incredible artifacts.
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On June 18, 1898, Bob-lo Island Amusement Park opened for the first time on Bois Blanc Island, Ontario, Canada. It would be a favorite summer destination for Detroiters for the next century.
🎢 Revisit some classic Bob-Lo rides on our blog: www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online...
Be sure to visit our website for late nights, free
admission days, and any other changes to our regular
open schedule: detroithistorical.org/visit
🚢💌 Learn more about the Wetscott in our Dossin Great Lakes Museum exhibition Mail By the Pail. It's open now: www.detroithistorical.org/exhibitions/...
It was the last place in the Confederacy for this news to spread, and the day was dubbed "Juneteenth" by the newly freed people and is now a federal holiday.
Learn move via the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
On June 17, 1895, the first marine post office in the nation was chartered in Detroit. In 1948, postal operations were wholly assumed by the J.W. Westcott Co. and the J.W. Westcott became an official U.S. Postal Service mail boat.
🌤️📲 Holiday hours! Please note a few
upcoming museum closures this summer, including this
Friday, 6/19 and Saturday, July 4. The Dossin Great
Lakes Museum will be OPEN on Labor Day, Monday, 9/
7, but the Detroit Historical Museum will be CLOSED.
The clubhouse for the Detroit Association of Women's Clubs, established in 1921 as a defiance of racist exclusion, was recently included on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
On June 19, 1865, some 2,000 Union soldiers arrived in Galveston Bay, TX and announced that the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been issued two years earlier, decreed that 250,000+ enslaved Black people in the state were free. nmaahc.si.edu/explore/mome...
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit Historical Society
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A longstanding Detroit civic organization that champions Black women's leadership and service is in danger of losing its historic clubhouse.
The historic Selma, Alabama, home where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helped shape the 1965 Voting Rights Act is now open to the public.
STORY: https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/wayne-county/historic-jackson-home-opens-at-greenfield-village-bringing-civil-rights-history-to-metro-detroit
k & j dairy, 11600 livernois, detroit, michigan, 1986
