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.
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| 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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