Detroit is founded. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and about one hundred soldiers and workers arrived after a six-week canoe trip from Montreal. The Frenchmen landed on a sandy beach at the foot of a thirty-foot bluff along the Detroit River. Here, Cadillac built a log fort that he named Ponchartrain du De Troit. Soon, the settlement's name was shortened to Detroit. Source: Michigan History 1701 Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac founded Detroit and started construction of Fort Ponchartrain. Source: Historical Society of Michigan
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