The Nankin Township Historical Society

Detroit Free Press , January 12, 1958 The Eisenlord House hotel was built and opened in 1861 by William Eisenlord. Detroit Free Press , December 30, 1885 It became the Windsor Hotel in December of 1885 when it changed hands to John White and his lessee R. J. Wilson. By 1886 it had been sold to E. C. Harvey & Son and was being billed as the Cass Avenue Hotel. Detroit Free Press , June 15, 1886 It went through two other owners before Frederick Soop took proprietorship sometime around 1890-91 and held it until September 13, 1895 when he supposedly retired. The building sat vacant for close to a decade before being purchased by a Kansas City firm which re-billed it the Hotel Morgan.  Detroit Free Press , July 29, 1903 The Morgan was torn down in 1929 to widen Bagley Avenue. One highlight from Soop's tenure was the hosting of jurors from the Hull murder case in 1891. I did find several adverts from the fall and winter of 1896 stating that Soop and his sons were running the St. Jame...

What does the grave of Elizabeth Soop have to do with the Eisenlord House in Detroit? I'll fill you in as inertia allows. Much of what I research is absolutely happenstance meanderings that have no pattern. This entire several hour gleaning began with a simple search for Rawsonville after similar searches for "Eloise", "Catville" and others failed to bring up anything.    The Northville Record , October 18, 1889 Up popped the brief snippet of Soop Cemetery being located in Rawsonville from The Northville Record from 1889. A nothing mention which conjures up the mysterons of the internet who chase hobgoblins in the wind and whose flitting intellects necessitated me to start my own groups to get away from them. While I love the ideal of haunted locations and believe that I have had so-called paranormal experiences I also think that they have more to do with psychological reactions to locations and not free-wheeling entities known as ghosts. Anyhow, Elizabeth Soop...