Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider
Post Number: 16 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 8:25 pm: | |
Harper and Van Dyke has always seemed like the center of some town. Was this a prominent community in the past in Detroit or was it a smaller town before Detroit expanded, any info would be great. |
Dodgemain Member Username: Dodgemain
Post Number: 124 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 8:42 pm: | |
I believe it was Leesville. Hornwrecker has a 1916 map of the area. This may be on a earlier thread. When I was a kid, My Grandmother and I used to walk there to shop. There was a United Shirt on the corner of Van Dyke and Harper. |
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary
Post Number: 79 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 8:05 pm: | |
My mother-in-law's parents had a market there that was displaced by the expressway. I'm going to ask them if they remember |
Mikem Member Username: Mikem
Post Number: 2925 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 9:38 pm: | |
Leesville was at the Gratiot/Harper/Cadillac intersection. |