The Streets of Detroit

This section of the site is not complete. If you have a question about a street that is not listed, please email .

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

E Street
No longer appears on city maps. May still exist.

West of 3100 Vinewood. 1 block south of 3900 Michigan

Eagle Place
Earle Place
Eason Avenue (HP)

Highland Park

East Hampton
Eastburn Street
Eastern Place
Eastlawn Avenue
Eastwood Avenue
Eaton Avenue
Edgar Street
Edgefield
Edgerton Avenue (Spw)
Edgeton Avenue
Edgevale Avenue
Edgewood Avenue
Edinborough Avenue
Edison Avenue
Edlie Avenue
Edmonton Avenue
Edmore Drive
Edmund Place
Edna Avenue (Spw)
Edsel AvenueNamed for Edsel Ford -- or his flop of a car!
Edward Avenue (HP)
Edward Street
Edwin Avenue
Edwin Avenue (Ham)
Elba Place
Eldon Avenue
Eldred Street
Eldridge Street
Electric Avenue
Elgin Avenue
Elijah McCoy DriveNamed for Detroiter Elijah McCoy who he held more than 40 patents for industrial oiling devices. Read more

Thanks to Daniel Showalter, Wayne State University graduate and Henry Ford Museum former employee, for this information.

Eliot Street
Elizabeth Street E-WMary Bailey of the Detroit News writes: "John R, Elizabeth and Columbia streets are named for personal reasons. John R. Williams was a landowner , merchant and bank president in the first half of the 19th century, who named the street after himself. Baptized John Williams, he adopted the letter 'R' to distinguish himself from another John Williams in Detroit. Some of his business ventures, such as publishing an early newspaper, included his uncle, Joseph Campau. Williams was a general in the Territorial Militia, a member of the board of trustees at the 'new' University of Michigan and the first elected Detroit mayor in 1824. Williams named Elizabeth after his daughter, and Columbia after a street where he lived in Albany, New York."

http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=199#ixzz0qOP2Vxki

Ellen Avenue
Eller/y Street (Ham)

Hamtramck

Ellery Avenue (Ham)

Hamtramck

Ellery Place
Ellery Street
Ellis Avenue
Ellsworth Avenue
Elm StreetProbably named for the elm tree. It is common for areas in cities to have streets named after trees. Elm Street in Detroit is near Butternut, Ash, Pine, Spruce, Magnolia, Mulberry, Hazel, and Sycamore Streets.
Elmdale Avenue
Elmer Street
Elmhurst Avenue
Elmira Avenue
Elmo Avenue
Elmwood Avenue
Elsa Avenue
Elsmere Avenue
Elwood Street
Elza Street
Emden Avenue
Emeline
Emerson Avenue N-S
Emery Avenue
Emily Avenue
Emily Street
Emmons Avenue
Endicott Avenue
Engle Avenue
Engleside Street
Englewood Avenue
Epworth Boulevard
Erbie Avenue
Erie Avenue E-W
Erle Avenue
Erskine Street
Erwin Avenue
Esper Avenue
Essex Avenue
Essex Avenue (Spw)
Ethel Avenue
Euclid Avenue E-W
Eugene Avenue
Eugene Street (Spw)
Eureka Avenue
Eustache Avenue
Evaline Avenue (Ham)

Hamtramck

Evalyn Avenue
Evans Avenue
Evanston Street
Evawal Avenue (Spw)
Evergreen Road
Everts Street
Ewald Circle
Ewers Street
Exeter Avenue
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Algonquin

General term used to describe Native Americans of the following tribes (and others): Delaware, Fox, Huron, Miami, Ojibwa (Chippewa), Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sac, Shawnee and Winnebago.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
arquebus

A 39 pound (approximate) musket that two men would prop on a tri-pod and fire with a small torch. The arquebus was used by Champlain's men against the Iroquois to defend the Hurons. This may be the cause of decades of Iroquois abuse of the Hurons.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
clay and wattle

Building technique used in the construction of chimneys in the early days of Fort Ponchartrain. The technique involved piling sticks and packing them - inside and out - with clay and mud.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Colbertism

Name for early French mercantilism in America, which Jean-Baptiste Colbert was influential in developing.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
conges

Trade permits issued by the Canadian government/court of France in the late 1600s to early 1700s.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
coureurs de bois

Very early French inhabitants of the current US and Canada who gave up their farmsteads for lives in the fur trade. They often lived with Native Americans.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
District of Hesse

Land district provisioned by the Canadian Council on July 24, 1788. The area was on the east side of the Detroit River.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Fox

"Properly ""Mesh-kwa-ki-hug"". Native American tribe living in the area between Saginaw Bay and Thunder Bay at the time Detroit was founded. The French called the tribe Renyard. An allied tribe of the Sacs and Mascoutin."
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Huron

A Native American tribe that built a village near Fort Ponchartrain.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Iroquoian

General term sometimes used to describe Native Americans of the following tribes: Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Iroquois

"A Native American tribe known for antagonizing and brutalizing the Hurons (see also arquebus)"
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Mascouten

Native American tribe living in the Grand Traverse Bay area at the time Detroit was founded. An allied tribe of the Foxes and Sacs. Also spelled Mascoutin.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Miami

A Native American tribe that built a village near Fort Ponchartrain.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Muskhogean

General term used to describe Native Americans of the following tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
New York Currency

First standard currency used in Detroit (first used in 1765).
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Ottawa

A Native American tribe that built a village near Fort Ponchartrain.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Outagamies

Native American tribe living in the Grand Traverse Bay area at the time Detroit was founded. An allied tribe of the Foxes (and Sacs?).
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Plains Indians

General term used to describe Native Americans of the following tribes: Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Pawnee (Pani).
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Potawatomi

A Native American tribe that built a village near Fort Ponchartrain.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Quebec Act

Act of June 22, 1774, in which British Parliament decides to exercise English law in criminal cases and old French provincial law in civil cases in western settlements. The idea was to discourage people from settling in the west.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Renyard

See Fox
Close Help Window

Glossary:
ribbon farms

Original land grants given by Cadillac. The lots were typically around 200 feet wide at the river front, with lengths up to 3 miles.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Sac

See Sauk
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Sakis

See Sauk
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Sauk

Native American tribe living in the area between Saginaw Bay and Thunder Bay at the time Detroit was founded. The French called the tribe Sakis; English and Americans generally call them Sacs. An allied tribe of the Foxes/Renyards and Mascouten.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Shoshonean

General term used to describe Native Americans of the following tribes: Bannock and Shoshone.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Treaty of Montreal

Treaty ending the war between the Iroquois and France and England. Negotiations began in July of 1698 and the treaty was signed in August of 1701.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
Treaty of Ryswick

September 20, 1697 treaty ending war between France and England.
Close Help Window

Glossary:
voyageurs

Early French explorers who traveled mainly by water.