In 1666, the French explorer Rene Robert de la Salle visited Canada. He discovered the land on which the city of Detroit would would rise. A scene attributed to circa 1680 is preserved in stained-glass that once stood in the Gothic-style smoking lounge of the steamer City of Detroit III, the queen of the Great Lakes luxury steamships in the early 20th century.
When the age of luxury on the Great Lakes came an end volunteers lovingly restored the ship's smoking lounge and reconstructed it with the window, a prominent feature of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle isle in Detroit.
The Detroit Historical Society and has a momento of the Great Lakes freighter ship Edmund Fitzgerald which sank in Lake Superior on 10 November 1975, a tragedy that took the lives of 29 men. Outside the Society is an anchor from the freighter which the freighter had to let go on one of its trips.
The Detroit Historical Society and the adjoining Dossin Great Lakes Museum is a very active complex with a list of attractive exhibits and activities. The two museums are administered by the Detroit Historical Society. For information: 5401 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202, or 313-833-7935, fax 313-833-5342, or, www.detroithistorical.org.
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