Please Ignore This Giant Bronze Statue (and other stories from Detroit’s Belle Isle)

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"Please take this money to build a beautiful public landmark. And also a giant statue. Of me," said the local Detroit nuisance.
The stories behind two of Belle Isle's most notable landmarks: a marble fountain funded by a scoundrel, and a marble lighthouse built in honor of a Great Lakes shipping pioneer.
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@nikkob1252 Год назад

As someone who has been to that fountain several times, I can say that I'm not sure I ever noticed that statue or if I did I promptly forgot about it. So they definitely did a good job at hiding it.

@dadsfix7590 Год назад

I absolutely love you. You have such an infectious excitement about Michigan and history that has me more interested in my state. Thanks you for what you do and for being you.

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you saying that.

@dadsfix7590 Год назад

@@AlexisDahl its my pleasure.

@robertwazniak9495 Год назад

You need to contact one of the shipping companies and get a ride from Marquette thru the Soo Locks and down the Detroit River. The stories that sailors tell are fascinating. Also, the next time you are in Detroit lookup the Wescot Mail Boat. They greet almost every ship going up or down the river and deliver “mail by the pail” … they have their own zip code.

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Oh, man. That is an excellent idea. I'd love to do that someday. Also, thanks for the tip about the mail boat! :)

@trapin68 Год назад

Not sure if you know this but the Belle Isle Aquarium is the oldest public Aquarium in the United States.

@r.g.edmonson6174 Год назад

If you ever get back to Detroit, Albert Kahn is a name worth exploring. More than a lighthouse on Belle Isle, Kahn was a prolific architect in the first half of the 20th Century. He designed the Fisher Building, Hill Auditorium on the U-M campus and other commercial and residential buildings. Most importantly, Albert and his brother Julius developed reinforced concrete as a building medium that became the standard for automobile factories of the era. Those included Ford's Highland Park factory, and the Packard Motor Co. plant on East Grand Boulevard. The Packard plant was the original "Motor City" before all Detroit adopted the name.

@elainebelzDetroit 6 месяцев назад

Also Minoru Yamasaki - best known as the architect of the World Trade Center in NYC - built some of his favorite work on the Wayne State campus. His firm was headquartered here in Detroit.

@commandermudpie Год назад

You must go to the aquarium when it is open. It has been fully restored and was designed by Kahn. Beautiful interior tile work and lots of local fish species. The botanical house is also wonderful, but it is getting a major restoration. I think it will be at least a year before it re-opens.

@beenfrank Год назад

Indeed

@Pistolita221 2 месяца назад

Has it re-opened?

@ClifBratcher Год назад

I used to live a few blocks from Belle Isle and had no idea that statue existed 😅 BTW If you're looking for more interesting Detroit history, check out the Purple Gang. During prohibition, the Detroit border with Canada was one of the largest paths for alcohol into the US. The Purple Gang controlled it and we're ruthless enough that Al Capone didn't want to challenge them. They were even suspected of being involved in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Whoa. That... is wild. I will look forward to reading more! Thanks!

@marceld6061 Год назад

You may also notice that the sign on the Canadian Club (Hiram Walker's) grain silos is facing Detroit and NOT Windsor. This was done to attract Americans over the border to Canada where Prohibition didn't exist. My grandfather and some other relatives used to buy cheap used Model T's to drive liquor across the river when it froze over in the winters. If the vehicle fell through the ice, it was more of a loss to have the liquor go down than the vehicle.

@elainebelzDetroit 6 месяцев назад

@@marceld6061 What's more -- On a river boat tour about French history along the river, we were told the church there with the electric-lit cross was used to signal when it was safe for the rumrunners to come over! LOL. It was/is a Catholic church. (That might've been the only thing I really learned on that tour - not because it wasn't full of great info, but because I'd already read a fair amount of Detroit history.)

@jamesmartin7282 11 месяцев назад

You mentioned that the City of Detroit purchased Belle Isle in 1879. But more recently, the city sold it to the State of Michigan because it had become run down and the city couldn't afford to fix it. Now it's a state park run by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

@elainebelzDetroit 6 месяцев назад

There's something sad about the city not owning it anymore - though not quite as sad, in my opinion, as the People of Detroit no longer owning the art in the DIA. When people were worried about Belle Isle being sold to the state, all I could think was, "They're not going to float it up the river to the suburbs or anything." And it's still public space. We'd be way worse off had it been put under private control.

@bookofrevelation4924 6 месяцев назад

The systemic looting of Detroit by the State of Michigan began after 1968 World Series Victory as last supper. In time for 2020 US Census changes with new technologies held back until then to replace human labor with robots. I was born into it in 1963 and removed from Detroit in 1970 to watch it looted through the 2000s takeovers using Temporary Emergency Managers to seize control of city governments.

@markp.5618 2 месяца назад

The island has not been sold, it is stilled owned by the City of Detroit but is being managed by the State Department of Natural Resources.

@georgekn3mp Год назад

Belle Isle has a LONG history, along with Bois Blanc Island downriver from there which was an amusement park taking up the whole island back then. So many stories about "Boblo Island" and the two "Boblo Boats" (Columbia and Ste. Claire) that carried people there for almost 100 years. Columbia is being restored in New York. Ste. Claire burned a few years ago during restorations. The Great Lakes were covered with luxury passenger steam boats like the "Tashmoo" which actually crashed against the Belle Isle bridge (MacArthur Bridge) back in the 30's and sank there. You could take a week-long steamer trip from Detroit all the way up to Mackinac Island.... also, Belle Isle's southern tip gets great sunset views of the city glowing in the golden hour.

@DjAlebo Год назад

I have been to Belle Isle so many times. I've even passed that lighthouse at least a dozen times. I didn't know any of the stories you told. Thank you, it makes the memories more special.

@ferrisulf Год назад

As a fellow Michigander, I thoroughly enjoy all of the information you give us about our state. This is all fascinating! Have barely been up north and don't get to Detroit very often. I'm in Kalamazoo. I did get a quite in depth tour around Detroit several years ago by family who live and work there and have access to a lot of places. The ornate designs and structures from its heydays are quite breathtaking.

@allysahatfield7438 Год назад

Hey welcome! I am from Detroit and work in Detroit. You showed my building in your video! Belle Isle is a huge part of most Detroiters childhood😊 There used to be a drive through zoo never reopened and huge slide that they recently reopened.

@mygreatestdayever Год назад

I love your positive energy! You make everything fascinating just with your enthusiasm. 😊

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Hey, thank you! I appreciate that.

@markberman8958 Год назад

So pumped you went to Belle Isle! The history is fascinating and your storytelling just makes it so much fun! We’re going to fly in this summer for an entire Michigan tour inspired by your work! Thanks for everything you do- you’re beyond awesome!

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Oh, man, that's amazing! I'm so honored. I hope it's a great trip! ☺️

@kdmigloo Год назад

Make sure to check out all the housing projects that are in ruins while your in detroit, if you have small children they will love it.

@georgekn3mp Год назад

try to get to The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn if you get a chance. It's full of automotive history.

@axs62 Год назад

Thank you for another interesting story. Many of us appreciate your efforts. Good job.

@wmschooley1234 Год назад

Alexis: Where you were standing at 1:23 would have gotten you arrested in the 1950’s and 1960’s. During the cold war, where you filmed, there was a Nike missile station. As a child visiting Belle Isle in the 50’s and 60’s I clearly remember, at the far downriver end of Belle Isle, at least two Nike Ajax or Nike Hercules missiles standing pointed skyward within a barbed wire enclosure, an armed guard entry post and prominent KEEP OUT signs. There were some 16 tactical missiles stations within the greater Detroit and Michigan area. The Nike System was designed to protect Detroit, known as the WW 2 arsenal of democracy, from incoming Soviet attacking nuclear bombers, tactical missiles and later ICBM’s. In the early 1970s, the Nike missile program was obsolete and the base and missiles were removed. So enjoy those yellow daffodils you see there today and remember what was there before. Respectfully, W.S.

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Wow. Thank you so much for sharing about this. I'm very glad to have learned about this.

@Mike-126 Год назад

I love your style of storytelling. Looking forward to more.

@astrorad2000 Год назад

Thank you for sharing. I really enjoy what you are doing and also enjoy your contagious enthusiasm !

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to say that. It's encouraging!

@djmartel91 Год назад

I had read that the citizen's of Detroit considered making his statue out of soap. He never stipulated what it was made of.

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Oh, my gosh! Now there's an idea.

@killercurio Год назад

Belle Isle is great this time a year i love going there and havent been there in a few years

@kevind3185 Год назад

I've got a picture of my Grandpa as a little kid in the 1930's taken with the fountain in the background.

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Oh, my gosh, that's great! What a fun thing to have.

@gregwarner3753 Год назад

Excellent story well told. Your enthusian for learning is both an example and infectious. Thank you for this illustration of a place I am not likely to ever visit. The Keewanah Peninsula is definitely on my list for my next cross country drive.

@brentmanhart1026 Год назад

“Once in a Great City” is a fantastic book about midcentury Detroit. It tells four parallel stories about the city in 1963 specifically and gives a great insight into the city at its height. “Detroit: a Biography” is a great wider history of the city from its founding. “Detroit: an American Autopsy” is also an interesting book about the city by a local muckraker named Charlie LeDuff. It was published around the time of the bankruptcy and is a sort of ruin erotica but it comes from a place of love. LeDuff loves his city in a….complicated way.

@weirdhousewivesclub Год назад

I live near here and love driving around the island often with my husband! I love that you enjoyed it!

@vicbertfartingclack4559 Год назад

Wow. Another awesome video. Detroit has an amazing history. When you were talking about the geological origins of marble, it reminded me about something most people don’t think about too much - all the ancient salt deposits under Detroit and all the salt mining going on for decades under people’s feet. Anyway, thanks for this!

@AlexisDahl Год назад

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Also, yes! I've wanted to make something about the Detroit salt mine for years (and keep hoping they'll get back to me about the couple of emails I've sent, ha ha). Hopefully someday!

@kellyryanobrien1 Год назад

This!!!

@alexpiper9475 Год назад

thank you . excellent addition to memories visiting belle isle in 1966.

@gary3696 Год назад

I was born in a suburb of Detroit in the early 1950s, I have fond memories of my parents taking me to Belle Isle on the weekends that we didn't go to Windsor (our other favorite place). Thanks so much for rekindling some forgotten memories or adding some missed detail a 5yo wouldn't have noticed.

@rickpresley63 Год назад

I used to visit the Aquarium and Children's Zoo on Belle Isle as a kid. Miss those days.

@FreshBrewRunClub Год назад

Awesome video! Belle Isle is one of my favorite places to run, but it was great to hear these stories. I’ll definitely run around the fountain and scoff at the statue the next time I’m there

@Snarkyhippie Год назад

The island used to have a zoo a couple decades ago. It was small and precious. Belle Isle is one of my most favorite places in the city. Thank you for this.

@georgekn3mp Год назад

She actually had a picture of the stablehouse included! Another abandoned spot...

@williamwright1281 Год назад

@@georgekn3mpDon't forget about the aquarium

@georgekn3mp Год назад

@@williamwright1281 with those green tiles!

@williamwright1281 Год назад

The aquarium is still open

@incoprea Год назад

This is so great! Been all through Wisconsin, starting Michigan. Fayette Historic State Park was awesome!

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Ooh! That park is on my list!

@strobex3298 Год назад

I love Belle Isle, I work on the mainland just off the island.

@timmah4202 5 месяцев назад

Frederick Law Olmstead also designed the grounds and gardens at the Biltmore estate in Asheville N.C. It's beautiful. If you haven't been there, I highly recommend it.

@larryg9137 Год назад

Once again Alexis, your story telling skills shine with a mixture of the obscure and detail. It's always a pleasure listening to your enthusiastic history lessons of Michigan. Thank you so much!

@neil2945 Год назад

Thanks for preserving the history of our state it's truly appreciated! And congratulations on making it safely through Detroit

@davevanvugt Год назад

I recently discovered your channel and have greatly enjoyed catching up on your videos! I'm Canadian, in the town of Bruce Mines, Ontario, about 1 hour from Sault Ste Marie. Not quite Michigan but not too far away. Bruce Mines has an long history of copper mining so I found your videos of mining very interesting. Keep up the good work! 😊

@fullback118 Год назад

Great video!! I'm so glad you got out to Belle Isle!

@freefall8243 Год назад

Belle Isle also has hosted numerous races over the years. I attended one years ago where I was able to meet both Mario Andretti and Nigel Mansell.

@ElectroOverlord Год назад

A thing about "Hog island" or shall I say Hog islands. Often in the early days of European settlements they would brings breeding pairs of hogs and drop them off on Islands. Maybe the most famous is the Ossabaw Hogs down off the Carolina Coast. The water offers a natural fencing on the islands and it lets the settlers create a easy livestock pen. Also Alexis, have you checked out Fort Wayne, The Petroglyph's in the Thumb or done a episode on all the old Indian trails that we just know as roads now? Love the Channel. Love your Energy.

@davegravel3740 Год назад

All the years I've lived here I never had a chance to explore the islands nooks and crannies. Partly because when the city owned it it pretty run down and really wasn't a safe place to do that and then i lived out of state for several years. I had never seen the fountain working till i visited the island after the dnr took it over after moving back. I had never noticed that statue till watching this video and never knew there was a lighthouse on the island either. Your videos make want to get out and explore my home state more. Definitely need to get to one of the dark sky parks this summer.

@Shawn666Hellion Год назад

Used to go to Belle Isle a lot as a kid,last time i was there was in 2013,of course they have the big carpet slide there as well,excellent video,and enjoyed the information as well

@cmpe43 5 месяцев назад

The fountain looks similar to Buckingham fountain and I love watching your knowledgeable presentations! Thank you!

@TingTingalingy Год назад

Great video. So I'm not sure what days uou visited though the aquarium & conservatory are only open on weekends, at least last I knew. The aquarium is absolutely beautiful. Hope you come back again!

@ryzechdev Год назад

I love these videos so much! Even though i don’t live in Michigan your videos are always so entertaining!! Always look forward to them :)

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Aw! Thank you! That's a high compliment. :)

@ellensimmons8485 Год назад

I hope you can return to Belle Idle when everything is open. You would ADORE the Aquarium, Conservatory, and Nature Center. They are AMAZING & such fun! And the Dossin Great Lakes Museum will inspire another great video. You would love it all! Such an excellent park. While you’re there, go to the Milliken State Park on the waterfront. So many wonderful sights there. Enjoy!

@zunedog31 Год назад

Theres a Belle Isle in the middle of a river in Richmond VA, too!

@debspring5162 Год назад

Many childhood memories and photos at the fountain and gardens

@marceld6061 Год назад

1:24 A nice picture of the only place in the USA where you look due *south* to a Canadian City (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) The Ambassador Bridge seen in the video was built in 1929 and currently is the busiest international bridge and the longest international suspension bridge.

@jznnotjason Год назад

Hey! Not sure why the algorithm recommended this, but cool video and now subscribed. Curious for your future videos. Great style, editing, and story telling. Cheers.

@sierrafoxtrotgolf3638 Год назад

I used to live right on the St.Claire River in Port Huron. (I was in marching band there, too.) 😊. We had binoculars and a book listing freighters. We’d check them off as we observed them.

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Oh, man, that sounds so fun! I might have to start doing that. 🙂

@edwarddherde9536 Год назад

The story behind the Scott statue is awesome

@enigma1865 Год назад

Thanks. My grandparents took me here as a kid back in the 1960s but I have not been here in years.

@janibeg3247 Год назад

i used to walk on Belle Isle in the winter. It was awesome.

@calparsons2502 Год назад

Nice to see such enthusiasm , interesting subject. Thanks.

@alanjohnson2613 Год назад

Yes he was notorious, I worked with one of his ancestors in the 70s he tried to live down james scotts notoriety

@patrickkopytek5600 Год назад

Belle Isle is said to be the largest municipally owned island park in the United States. Also, aided by a good map, you will discover that the island runs East/West and the only part of the US where the United States is North of Canada! People for instance born in Hamtramck Michigan were born North of Canada.

@elainebelzDetroit 6 месяцев назад

Is that really only true of Belle Isle, though? I remember in the 90s seeing a plaque over on the Canadian side that said it was the spot where the US was due north of Canada, and I believe it was much closer to the Ambassador Bridge.

@amayernican Год назад

I didn't know I was going to be doing this tonight but I'm glad I did. You're great and I love local history. My adopted home of Oklahoma City also has a Belle Isle district that has a crazy history of being a theme park during the roaring 20s with all the good history of that in OK. Keep being awesome.

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Aw, thank you! Also, that's so fun about your local Belle Isle district. Love a good 1920s theme park!

@amayernican Год назад

@@AlexisDahl I like your work because it makes me feel like @99percentinvisiblepodcast with of lofty tone and more personal delivery. So good. Thank you.

@mackymintle7806 Год назад

Great job. I’m going to have to finally visit Belle Isle!

@peterdibble Год назад

I love the detail that they hoped the fountain spray would erode the statue. 😂 Savage.

@censusgary Год назад

Cass Gilbert must have really liked working with white marble. The U.S. Supreme Court Building (which he also designed) is full of it, inside and out. At the building’s grand opening in 1935, critics said it looked like a big pile of ice cubes.

@bettysmith2142 Год назад

Thank you, for teaching me more about this great state that I live in❤

@fluffymittens24 Год назад

I was waiting on the geology lesson, once again you did not fail. ❤

@mirp5497 Год назад

Great video Learned something new Love to see you visit East Tawas lighthouse Keep on adventuring 😊

@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Год назад

Excellent video! As someone who lives in the area I never knew about the history of Bell Isle. I also love all your videos about Michigan in general as you have really taught me a lot about the state I live in.

@timtom7097 Год назад

I wanted to visit that Island. Thats sooo cool. Thank you so much! Much love from KY

@wolvmarine313 Год назад

Wadapdoe!! Home sweet home. I'm sure people will be surprised to learn that submarines travel that river. I used to live on Iron Street/Mt. Eliot park near harbor town in those lofts. Best place I've ever lived where I had a view of the fountain and Windsor.

@91Redmist Год назад

The parkways on Belle Isle hosted annual Indycar racing until last year. Don't know if you knew that. Indycars are those sleek looking things that race the Indianapolis 500 every Memorial Day weekend.

@jimsteele9261 Год назад

On the big things floating..... I always thought it was amazing that an ocean going freighter could sail inland as far as Minnesota. One of the funniest things I saw in the UP was at the Soo Locks, watching from the observation deck. A little two person sailboat cycled thru the lock. It looked like a rubber duck in a bathtub

@elainebelzDetroit 6 месяцев назад

And they say we're "landlocked." I guess we technically are? Perhaps because the Erie Canal is human-made? Or rivers don't count?

@patrickmontie9583 Год назад

If you didn't mention it the botanical gardens and aquarium are the oldest in America. An English heiress donated her lily collection to the gardens to kick it off.

@Oddzilla51 Год назад

Belle Isle is a great place to go. I grew up about 12 miles north of there on the border of Detroit in Warren. Such a history of that island. :D And I hope you got to enjoy some of the Detroit staples. Maybe a Coney Dog at Lafayette? Or Detroit Style Pizza at Buddy's? well, Loui's is my favorite but I don't begrudge anyone for going to the original even if it's not the best. Hopefully you enjoyed my home town area. :)

@Al_G Год назад

You could teach us about dishwasher warranties and I would enjoy them. But love the MI knowledge!

@ronsamborski6230 Год назад

Alexis’ enthusiasm for the subject matter is infectious! 😊

@csnide6702 Год назад

We have a "philanthropist" in our town that "donates" to causes HE likes... and he puts HIS name on all of them . "that anything that big can float"... Alexis , please . You are a smart woman - it's all about displacement of water..... You went to school , right..? Oh yeah- you went to Michigan ........ Go green !

@jayf8308 Год назад

Great job kiddo. I have been to the island just once on a cold rainy winter day while taking a break from a job site my brother and I was working on. Never really got out of the truck. I was feeding french fries to some birds who quickly told all their bird friends who came in such numbers that Alfred Hitchcock would have been shocked. lol

@matthewthompsonr 4 месяца назад

A year late...but I really hope you're a member of the Light House Passport system. I just started on getting my MI stamps. :) Also if you ever want any information on the Point Iroquis light house let me know, my aunt and uncle did the renovations there in the 80's and 90's and I'm sure they would love to answer any questions.

@josephmetzger8648 Год назад

Olmsted also did all the landscaping for the Biltmore Estate.

@swervature Год назад

Thank you for this!

@PerVerdonk Год назад

Belle Isle, near light house was once a Nike missile site. Diana Ross had a scene of movie Lady Sings the Blues filmed a Scott fountain.

@dawnhughes9942 Год назад

Keweenaw Arborist friend here. I grew up playing on Belle Isle as a kid, then got to prune the trees in the conservatorium. We had to climb up on top of the glass dome and descend from the rafters to do it! There's a lumbermans museum there recently started by arborists where you can learn more about that history Thanks for featuring Belle Isle. Good memories.

@vlookup_tim Год назад

Thanks Alexis. Your content is such a joy.

@YourGirlMaze Год назад

One of my highschool friend's dad worked on Belle Isle. So, before prom, my friends and I got to wander around the aquarium/conservatory, and even the track that was set up for the Grand Prix pretty much unsupervised before we took our photos.

@LuckyGreenStripes Год назад

I love your content and all the thought and hard work you put into it to help teach us more about Michigans history. It’s truly remarkable too see the structures like you shown us and just how much money and how wealthy Detroit was in the early 1900’s. Keep up the great work

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Thank you! I appreciate that a bunch.

@raymondgilbert7887 Год назад

THANK YOU FOR MAKING A BELLE ISLE VIDEO!

@Desron58 Год назад

Very interesting video and love your channel!

@williamozier918 Год назад

I grew up in Detroit, and spent about half my life on Belle Isle. You can go there all the time, and still always notice or do something new.

@johnjunge6989 Год назад

If you ever get to Illinois, drive from the Illinois river near the Mississippi, to Alton. You'll drive the Great River Road which has the Mississippi on one side and 100-150' bluffs of Limestone on the other. A lot of it is missing due to 3 major ice age events, the same one that caused the Great Lakes to form! And all of Illinois limestone is dead fish and other watery animals. We have tons of it along the Mississippi. And 300-500 ft of Loess on the rest of the major part of the state. Loess, is dirt, which covers all the coal (dead vegetation, marshy areas, due to being under lots of water for thousands of years. Geology 101, ha!!

@chadportenga7858 Год назад

How about something on the salt mines? I'm sure you could turn those into a hour-long episode with their human history and their geologic history!

@AlexisDahl Год назад

The Detroit Salt Mine has been on my list for years! 🙂 I haven't been able to find much in the way of photos or videos of the mine (and haven't had luck getting in contact with folks who can share that sort of thing), but it's a topic that's often in the back of my brain when I'm planning new projects.

@ITubetc Год назад

2 thumbs up! ❤ I loved going to that aquarium and green house in its prime days.

@cultivateinnovations Год назад

your videos are great! I love learning about Michigan!

@C.Schmidt Год назад

You know, it says a lot about the grandeur of the fountain that is can so effectively divert someone's attention away from a life sized statue of a guy. It is ironic though that the monument that James Scott demanded is overshadowed so completely. Even more so in comparison to the memorial lighthouse for William Livingstone, which people other than Livingstone seem to have asked for; with Livingstone seeming to be Scott's karmic opposite.

@arthurmata4900 Год назад

Very professional without being very professional. Michigan is lucky have an articulate, personable, highly talented journalist to share its history.

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Thank you! I really appreciate that. I've never described my work as "professional without being very professional," but that's really what I'm going for! 🙂

@jamesdaniels3699 Год назад

My name is James Scott Daniels 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm NOT named after this James Scott

@andrwwgutowski3967 Год назад

Belle Isle the end of Vanessa terrig journey of the path of the left which starts at biggest Masonic Temple in the world. The Scott fountain is on the cardinal and those are basins. The area next to the fountain most prominent feature is the mikova. Staircase leading to thel basins of the fountain. There are 2 towers and a few other temples on the island along with the amazing Horticulturall building and aquarium n another fountain equally is esoteric The famous Native American chief Tecumseh Had a powerful Shaman brother. They conducted their craft at what was known as rattlesnake island The Haunted island was taken over in maid to Belle Isle as we know it now. Previously you had to go underground before you emerged at the bridge to cost the river. The classic underground journey before venturing to the aisle. There's also a statue of Dante elligeria. One of the most famous templars of all

@andrwwgutowski3967 Год назад

Then I finished your video The lighthouse very similar Lee to the Fisher building straight is a hermetic Monument to the light There are 32 eagles. The 33rd Eagle would be the master bulb in the Lens if you're into or aware of this whole island in the whole city at the turn off the last century was set up by the nights of the Temple and the higher degrees of the Masonic ranks. The last reset of Detroit it was set up on the compass by Augustus Woodward 32nd degree night of Saint Andrew. Trusted Brother. of Thomas Jefferson.

@charlesvigneron565 Год назад

They could have had James Scott holding up bird feeders

@AlexisDahl Год назад

Ha ha! I had a good laugh at that. Thank you.

@eherrmann01 Год назад

Great video Alexis, thanks for sharing these stories. The next time you're "downriver" you should visit Grosse Ile, there are many interesting stories to be found there.

@AlexisDahl Год назад

I love Grosse Ile! And would love to learn more about it. Any recommendations for where to start?

@eherrmann01 Год назад

@@AlexisDahl It has been over 45 years since I lived there (it was my childhood hometown) but I'd look into the Pagoda on West River Rd, and the Wonder Well to start. The Pagoda is said to have some interesting history surrounding it, and the wonder well was a natural Sulphur spring near the south end of the island. They made fireworks there back in the day,. I don't know if either place is still there though. There was once also a railroad bridge from the island to Canada. When I lived there, you could still see some of the pilings near East River Rd.

@ronsamborski6230 Год назад

@@eherrmann01 And the airport on Grosse Ile was once a U.S. Naval Air Station. 🇺🇸⚓️

@joehoeksema2686 Год назад

On the north end of mackinaw bridge to the west on us 2 used to be a mystery spot it was a gravity anomaly cars rolled up hill chairs stood on the wall crazy I would be interested in your insight on it