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Detroit: Early America's Frontier Seaport

Detroit developed from a French fur-trade outpost to a thriving American port town.  Historian Catherine Cangany, Ph.D., explores how Detroit's ties to the frontier made the city's stratospheric rise to prominence possible.  Sponsored by the Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society and the West Bloomfield Township Library.

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