About Wyandotte, Michigan

Wyandotte is a city of 25,058 people in Wayne County, on the Detroit River about 14 miles southwest of downtown Detroit. In the 18th century a Wyandot village called Maquaqua stood here, which the French wrote as Monguagon. Its center lay near today's Biddle Avenue, close to a sandy beach where the people launched birch bark canoes for the trip to Detroit. The Wyandot gave up the land by treaty in 1818, and that year Major John Biddle bought 2,200 acres from the federal government. He built a farm and summer estate, finished around 1835, and named it Wyandotte for the Wyandot people.

Eber Ward built the Eureka Iron Works here in 1854, the same year Wyandotte became a village of Ecorse Township. John S. Van Alstyne, Ward's general manager, laid out the streets in a grid known as the Philadelphia Plan. Front Street ran along the river, the streets beside it took numbers, and the cross streets took the names of trees and plants. The state chartered Wyandotte as a city on December 12, 1866, and after its first city election in April 1867 it ranked behind only Detroit as the oldest incorporated city in Wayne County.

  • America's first steel hull, 1873Ward also brought shipbuilding to the riverbank, where yards built steamers, tugs and big ferries from the 1870s into the 1920s. In 1873 his Wyandotte Iron Ship Building Works built the Sport, a tugboat that was the earliest steel-hulled vessel in the nation. Murals of that shipbuilding era, painted in 1942, survive in Theodore Roosevelt High School's auditorium.
  • Salt into soda ashCaptain John Baptiste Ford turned the local salt into soda ash, which went into plate glass. In 1893 he started the Michigan Alkali Company to make baking soda, soda ash and lye. Renamed Wyandotte Chemicals, it went on to make soaps and cleaners and became part of BASF, which still runs a plant on the north riverfront.
  • Ford City and the AlkalisFord City, a village founded in 1902 and named for John Baptiste Ford, merged with Wyandotte in 1922. Ten years before that merger, in 1912, the city's minor league team, the Wyandotte Alkalis, won the Border League title.
  • Toy guns from Sycamore StreetThe All Metal Products Company opened on Sycamore Street in 1920. Selling as Wyandotte Toys, it was the country's largest maker of toy guns and pistols from the 1920s until the 1950s, pressing cap guns, dart guns, pop guns and toy airplanes out of scrap metal from local auto plants. Its motto was "Wyandotte Toys Are Good and Safe." The company moved to Ohio in the early 1950s, and Louis Marx and Company bought it three years later.
  • A library in a family homeAfter Congressman Mark R. Bacon died, his widow, Mary Ford-Bacon, gave the Ford-Bacon House on Vinewood Street to the city. In 1942 it became the Bacon Memorial District Library, taking the place of the Wyandotte Carnegie Library, and the staff still give tours of the historic part of the house. The Ford-Bacon House joined the National Register in 1997.

Find your street

Names on the Wyandotte map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks4

  • Downtown Wyandotte
  • Pulaski Park
  • Bishop Park
  • F.O.P. Park

Streets and roads115

  • Fort Street
  • Biddle Avenue
  • Biddle Street
  • Seventh Street
  • Goddard Road
  • Goddard Street
  • Bondie Street
  • Riverside Drive
  • Ninth Street
  • Walnut Street
  • Electric Street
  • Alkali Avenue
  • Desana Drive
  • Sixth Street
  • 17th Street
  • 15th Street
  • 23rd Street
  • Fourth Street
  • Superior Boulevard
  • Fifth Street
  • 20th Street
  • 22nd Street
  • Eighth Street
  • 21st Street
  • 18th Street
  • Second Street
  • Third Street
  • Eleventh Street
  • Twelfth Street
  • 19th Street
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  • Vinewood Street
  • Oak Street
  • Ford Avenue
  • Eureka Road
  • 13th Street
  • 16th Street
  • Antoine Street
  • Cedar Street
  • Pine Street
  • 14th Street
  • Tenth Street
  • Maple Street
  • Cora Street
  • Elm Street
  • Davis Street
  • Orchard Street
  • Chestnut Street
  • Grove Street
  • First Street
  • Pennsylvania Road
  • Baumey Avenue
  • Sycamore Street
  • Lindbergh Street
  • Poplar Street
  • Saint Johns Street
  • Clark Street
  • Hudson Street
  • Clinton Street
  • Emmons Boulevard
  • Central Street
  • Mulberry Street
  • West Electric Avenue
  • Van Alstyne Street
  • Forest Street
  • Spruce Street
  • Lincoln Street
  • North Drive
  • Orange Street
  • McKinley Street
  • Cherry Street
  • Plum Street
  • Alkali Street
  • Riverbank Street
  • Perry Place
  • Kings Highway
  • Highland Street
  • Marshall Avenue
  • Alfred Street
  • Quarry Road
  • Quarry Street
  • Dee Street
  • Ludington Street
  • Goddell Street
  • Wye Street
  • Ash Street
  • Hillsdale Street
  • Mollno Street
  • Saint Ignace Avenue
  • Oxford Court
  • Marshall Street
  • Bennett Street
  • Albion Street
  • Maple Avenue
  • Labadie Street
  • Garfield Street
  • Sullivan Street
  • Miller Street
  • Felice Street
  • Hazel Street
  • Stoll Street
  • Lee Street
  • Adelaide Street
  • Pope John Paul II Avenue
  • James Street
  • Cadon Street
  • Poplar Court
  • Clifford Street
  • Virginia Street
  • Arch Street
  • Parklane Street
  • New Street
  • Saint Ignace Street
  • River Court
  • Baumey Street
  • Spuce Street

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