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Source: Library of Congress
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Map Title: Birds Eye View–Showing About Three Miles Square–of the Central Portion of the City of Detroit, Michigan
Date(s): 1889
Source: http://www.loc.gov/item/76693077/
Highlighted areas (numbered at bottom and starred on map left to right): | |
| 1 | - Union Depot Grain Elevator - James Miller (M.) McCrie worked here, first as the weighmaster from 1882 to 1885, then as a foreman from 1886 to about 1908 |
| 2 | - 611 Lafayette Avenue - Home of James M. and Anna (nee Anthony) McCrie family from 1882 until 1886 |
| 3 | - 600 14th Avenue Home of the James M. and Anna (nee Anthony) McCrie family from 1886 through 1952 - 559 14th Avenue Home of the James W. and Sarah (nee Livingston) McCrie family from 1914 until 1973 |
| 4 | - Detroit Market, Michigan Grand Avenue - Hermann Schütze worked for Hammond, Standish & Co. Meats from 1880 to 1882 - He worked for F X Kolb Meat Company in 1891 |
| 5 | - 199 Gratiot Avenue Johann Schrotzberger's meat market from 1886-1889 - 269 Gratiot Avenue Johann Schrotzberger's meat market and home from 1884-1885 |
| 6 | - 117 Catherine Street - Johann Schrotzberger's meat market and home from 1882-1883 |
| 7 | - 141 Catherine Street - Hermann and Frederika (nee Schrotzberger) Schütze's family home in 1882 |
| 8 | - 110 Rivard Street - James Miller McCrie boarded here in 1869 while working as a carpenter |
| 9 | - 450 Croghan Street - Hermann and Frederika (nee Schrotzberger) Schütze's family home and meat market from 1883 to 1890 - The home was kitty-corner to the large Pullman Palace Car Company factory billowing smoke on the map |