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Catville & the History of Detroit's Real Estate





My happiness of finding an old defunct hamlet called Catville was short-lived as the town eventually evolved into New Boston. Which
is sad but it also led me to this section of a longer article called History of Detroit's Real Estate that was written concerning a paper
by C. M. Burton on just that topic read before the Detroit Real
Estate Board in early 1900.






Detroit Free Press, April 8, 1900



Mentioned are several defunct villages, name changes
and neighborhoods. Included are Belgrade (bet. Delray & the Rouge
Bridge), Cassandra (a mile & a half west of Woodward & the
10,000 acre tract [didn't this get
mentioned recently?]), Mount Pleasant (sec. 31 within the town of
Romulus), Truaxton or Truago (which became Trenton), Vreelandt (Flat
Rock), Michigan City (Rawsonville), Grand Port (Ecorse) and Catville
(New Boston).







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