Detroit's First Historic Markers

In 1926 the Hudson’s Department Store, City of Detroit and the Detroit Historical Society partnered to unveil twenty bronze tablets to  “acquaint Detroit with its early history, and to impress further upon the citizens of the city its present greatness by the contrast with its humble beginnings.” The program was the first historical marker program in the city, and the sites chosen for commemoration shed light on prevailing attitudes about the city – from inside and outside Detroit -  during a time when it was completely reinventing itself: culturally, politically, socially, and economically.

Mr. Jeremy Dimick is the Director of Collections and Curatorial at the Detroit Historical Society, which oversees a quarter million artifacts in the City of Detroit’s collection. Jeremy attended Central Michigan University and has worked with museum collections across the state at the Michigan Historical Museum, The Henry Ford, and Flint’s Sloan Museum before joining the DHS staff in 2017.

This lecture is co-sponsored by Preservation Detroit.

Sciences & Humanities Under the Dome is a free public lecture series supported by the Rita & Stanley Levy & Ratna & Vaman Naik Endowment. We welcome all members of the community to join us in the planetarium for these research lectures!

Light refreshments will be provided prior to the lecture. Doors open at 5:30pm.