FILE PATHEXPLORE DETROIT/DETROIT HISTORY
THE RIVER

Border City

Shipping, docks, Windsor, commerce, winter ice and the waterway that made Detroit a border city.

Historic view of the Detroit River with the Ambassador Bridge
DETROIT CONTEXT

Detroit facing the river.

Shipping, docks, Windsor, commerce, winter conditions, and the border remain here as parts of one geographic story.

The river joined Detroit to Windsor, Great Lakes shipping and international commerce. It was simultaneously workplace, transportation route, border and physical edge of downtown.

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