Corktown

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The Corktown neighborhood is Detroit's oldest surviving neighborhood. It is only half as old as the city itself, however. Cadillac founded Detroit in 1701 as the only significant town in French controlled territory between the St. Lawrence River Valley and the Illinois country.

The other French settlements were generally Indian missions, forts, and trading posts. French government policy discouraged towns and farms west of Montreal. In spite of its relatively early time of platting, Corktown still offers a full spectrum of house fashions of the whole second half of the nineteenth century. Houses in Corktown are typically built close to each other on narrow 25-foot lots extending perhaps 130 feet from front sidewalk to back alley. This is a land pattern dating back to the London of King Charles II over 300 years ago.

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