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Wyandots followed the Detroit River 10 miles to the south and founded a village named Maquaqua, which is now part of the city of Wyandotte.

1950: Biddle and Sycamore Street

This next article is about a city that I was born in back in 1958 in the back part of Wyandotte Hospital near the Detroit River. I also attended school there in 1975 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Out of all the downriver cities, this city has the most happening there as far as street fairs for one, and other planned activities, where the City of Wyandotte is a community having about 28,000 citizens as of today.

there is a brief history of the city of Wyandotte. The area that became the City of Wyandotte was first settled in 1732 by a branch of the Huron Indian Tribe known as the Wyandots. The Wyandots first arrived from Ontario, Canada when their French allies founded Detroit. The

The end of 1st Street in the 1950s

Article by Michael Joseph Lynch

History of Wyandotte,

Michigan

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