This is going to be super short but was too cool not to share. The city of Detroit in Michigan was founded on July 24, 1701 by the French explorer/adventurer Antoine Laument de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac (how’s that for a mouthful of a name?). He was born in France but moved to New France on the American continent – the area stretched from what we now as eastern Canada and down to Louisiana.
He founded a fort in this territory and called it Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit on that date in 1701 which was 313 years ago yesterday. Interestingly, the city of Cadillac, Michigan was named after him as well. AND, if you’ve ever been to Louisiana, I bet you know where Lake Pontchartrain is, don’t you? This dude had some far-reaching influences, didn’t he?
Anyway, all that above leads me to the way cool Friday Fact I wanted to share. My love of symmetry comes into play here for sure. Detroit was founded 313 years ago yesterday and guess what their telephone area code is? Yep, you got it. 313. How cool is that? And could it ever happen to another city?
Jillian Chantal 
Interesting. How do you find these facts? Or do you just stumble across them?
By: Lavada Dee on July 25, 2014
at 10:53 am
Oh, and sometimes I look up âthis date in historyâ
By: Author on July 25, 2014
at 11:31 am
Some of them I already know and dig out of my brain, some of them come in up conversation and I have a file folder in Word that I save ideas in for FF, and this particular one, I heard on the radio about the area code and date so I researched it further. I have Sirius radio and the guy on 60s on 6 in the morning- Phlash Phelps is a font of knowledge. I sometimes grab stuff her says and use that.
By: Author on July 25, 2014
at 11:34 am
Wow, he did have a reach on him. That’s some significant influence. And the 313 is a great extra fact. Very cool!
By: Laurie Ryan on July 27, 2014
at 5:25 pm
He sure did have a reach. Love it. Hope you had a wonderful weekend.
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By: Author on July 27, 2014
at 5:47 pm
I love that a Cadillac founded Detroit.
By: Flossie Benton Rogers on July 28, 2014
at 2:12 pm
Me, too Flossie. Seems symmetrical to me. And I love that
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By: Author on July 28, 2014
at 4:29 pm