Founded: July, 1701 by Antoine de la Mothe and Cadillac

Metropolitan area: 4,043,467 (Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties)

Mayor: Kwame M. Kilpatrick

AKA - Detroit

  • Motor City
  • Rock City
  • Motown
  • 313
  • Hockey Town
  • Bad Boys
  • New Jack City
  • Third World
  • Hair Capital
  • Potato chip capital
  • City of Champions
  • Amityville
  • Champ Town
  • City of Churches
  • City of trees
  • Paris of the Midwest
  • Tampa of the North
  • Arsenal of Democracy
  • Hardcore Detroit

Did you know?

  • The Davison Freeway was the first freeway located Here in Detroit
  • 1901  The world’s first concrete road is built in Detroit
  • installed the country’s first traffic light in 1915 in downtown Detroit
  • 1837 First to lay Rail road tracks
  • General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and the North American headquarters of DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen are located in metro Detroit
  • was the first city in the nation to assign individual telephone numbers in 1879
  • The youngest mayor ever in the city of Detroit and the youngest big-city mayor in America (Kwame M. Kilpatrick)
  • founded the world’s first convention bureau in 1896
  • 1954  The nation’s first shopping mall opens in Southfield. Northland Mall
  • shares the world’s first auto traffic tunnel between two nations – the Detroit/Windsor Tunnel
  • home to Vernors ginger ale, Sanders hot fudge, Better Made Potato Chips, Faygo soda pop, Stroh’s Ice Cream
  • DMW Detroit Most Wanted - Pioneered the bling and the hip-hop game
  • the Hip roll you see Beyoncé doing in the Soldier video was created in the D
  • The Detroit Jit was created here some other places call it the footwork but it originated from here
  • Techno was originated here
  • Detroit is the home of Motown Records
  • 1963  The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. debuts his “I Have a Dream” speech in Detroit two months before its famous delivery in Washington, D.C.
  • 1974  Coleman Young takes office as Detroit’s first African-American mayor
  • 1805  A devastating fire sweeps through Detroit, destroying all 200 of its structures except a stone warehouse
  • First black owned TV station in the world created in the D channel 62

Gangstas in Detroit:

Street Slang:

  • Greetings: What-up-doe

Dances:

  • Jit
  • Funkateer
  • German Smurf
  • Maniac
  • School Craft
  • Errol Flynn

(Famous) Detroit:

  • Joe Louis - boxer
  • George Clinton
  • Judge Mathis
  • Juan Atkins
  • Thomas Hearns -boxer
  • Madonna
  • Flat Top aka Gruvin Rubin
  • Aaliyah
  • Diana Ross
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Kid Rock
  • Aretha Franklin
  • Anita Baker
  • Eminem
  • Tim Allen
  • Tom Selleck
  • Robin Williams
  • Ted Nugent
  • Royce 59
  • D-12
  • Slum Village
  • Jessica Caremoor - poet
  • Casey Kasem - radio star
  • Robo Cop