MLT - Conner's Creek Traditional Cache
Hidden : 3/13/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The MLT is Michigan Lost Towns.

Be sure to check out other MLT caches at http://www.losttownscacheseries.com/index.html

Seeing as these towns are LOST, we thought of them as "LOST IN SPACE" so as Space Cadets we decided to turn them into caches.

First called Tremblay's Creek and Tremble Creek, this once prosperous eastside village dates to the late 1700s. It began east of present Detroit City Airport, on what actually was a branch of Conner's Creek. A U.S. land grant of 640 acres to Joseph Tremblay enabled him to begin building near where the old Fort Gratiot Road crossed the creek. Richard Connor came to the area with Moravian missionaries in 1782 and became the local Indians' paymaster. A road through the area led to a creek-side mill and a nearby log chapel. The area was sometimes referred to as Tremble Creek, a misspelling. The village was later renamed in honor of Richard Connor's son, Henry, who died in 1838. Henry's son, named Richard after his grandfather, married Tremblay's daughter, Theresa, and together they settled the estate of Tremblay's Creek in 1851, renaming it Connor's Creek. Its development from 1832 is strongly tied to that of Assumption Grotto Church, Detroit's second oldest Catholic Church. Assumption Grotto, then called Kirke in dem Walde and St. Mary's in the Woods, was built at Conner's Creek by early German settlers who were told to avoid Detroit at all costs because of the cholera epidemics.

Conner's Creek was not laid out until 1853. Misspelling of names like Tremblay and Conner in the records was a common error then.  The old Moravian turnpike, as it was once called, became Fort Gratiot Road, one of the area's plank (toll) roads until 1890. In those days, parts of Conner's Creek were navigable down to the Detroit River, but since 1928 it has been buried in subdivision drains. By 1915, the village had grown to more than 2,000 people. The village center was near present day Gratiot and Greiner. The post office operated from 1855 to 1907. The village was called Greiner (after Michael Greiner) from 1893 to 1899. The Greiner Estate covered hundreds of acres before it was sold and subdivided after 1920. The 100-year old Salter family home, at 15303 Seven Mile, was torn down about 1983. Streets in the area carry the names Conner and Greiner. Annexed to Detroit by village vote in 1917.

Above text taken from the book Detroit Beginnings: Early Villages and Old Neighborhoods by Gene Scott.

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