An ice house - 15 feet by 15 feet 6 feet tall above ground and 15 feet deep in the ground.A barn for storing crops (and later a horse or two) - 27 feet by 50 feet by 11 feet tall.Other buildings ("owned" by Cadillac) include: For this reason, the warehouse, church and streets also served as part-time kitchens. In very cold weather it was also used as a warm gathering place as the houses were too small to have fires inside. Unlike most of the other buildings, this one was made of thick oak planks and had a hinged door with a lock and key. A very small street - more of an alley really - was called Recontre.Ī large building (22 feet by 37.5 feet by 8 feet tall) was erected for use as a warehouse and trade store. Antoine, ran north-south in the enclosure. A couple of smaller streets (15 feet wide or less), St. Joachim ran parallel to, and north of, Ste. Anne Street ran east to west along the southern wall. Some source say the palisade was surrounded by a moat, also for defense purposes. Each corner of the palisade contained a bastion or blockhouse for look-out and defense purposes. Stark and others mention a third gate on the west end of the palisade. At least two gates were built in the palisades - one at the south side along the Detroit River, the other on the east near Ste. The palisade or stockade was constructed of logs (6-8 inches in diameter) vertically driven into the earth about 3 feet, and rising 12 feet into the sky. Anne's followed the Franciscan order under the leadership of Father del Halle. Father Vaillant, unhappy with Cadillac's apparent favoritism of the Franciscan order, his intentions to trade brandy to the Native Americans, and his encouraging of marriage between soldiers and Native American women, left the area almost immediately after the party landed. Two priests had accompanied Cadillac on his journey to the Detroit area, Father Constantin del Halle, a Recollet priest of the Franciscan order, and Father Francois Vaillant, a Jesuit priest. Anne's started on July 26, the feast day of Ste. It is likely that the construction of Ste. The area Cadillac marked off covered one square arpent (192.75 ft x 192.75 ft or 37,152.56 sq ft).īuilding of the storehouse and stockade began immediately, however, the first building completed was Ste. And the western border was along present day Shelby Street. The eastern end was approximately where Griswold Street is today. The northern border was between present day Larned Street and Jefferson Avenue. The southern border was present day Jefferson Avenue. In honor of his comrade, Louis (or his son, Jerome) Phélypeaux, Comte du Ponchartrain, Minister of Marine to Louis XIV, Cadillac named the settlement Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit.Ĭadillac then marked village borders. Upon landing at the site of the new settlement, a ceremony was held to formally take possession of the land. Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit - French Rule - 1701-1760įor information on the events that led to the establishment of Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit, as well as Cadillac's journey to the area, click here.
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