Dig Detroit: Exploring Corktown's central train station

About 100 years ago, Detroit's Corktown neighborhood was under siege. After building the massive central train station, the city was waiting on a few holdout homes to clear the area in front to make way for Roosevelt Park.

Now, the train station is in ruins and archeologist Krysta Ryzewski of Wayne State University is digging up Roosevelt Park in search of artifacts from the displaced people of Corktown.

 

← Back to listing