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Plaque marking site of the Fox Indian encampment
Description:
View of bronze tablet marking the site of the Fox Indian encampment during the 1712 Siege of Detroit, installed on the Fort Street side of the Penobscot Building. Inscription reads: "Here encamped the Fox Indians, Outagamies, during the Siege of Detroit, 1712. Here also were buried the soldiers killed in the Battle of Lake Erie, 1813. Erected by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Michigan, 1905."
Details
Resource ID:
bh009145
Date Issued:
Unknown year
Format:
1 photographic print ; 5 x 3.5 in.
Filing Location:
Outdoor civic memorials and historical markers, 1951, Detroit City Plan Commission, revision containing new photographs, 718 D484oa
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.