Quinn Road (Clinton Township)
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- DBB-LOC-01026
- Address
- Quinn Road, Clinton Township, Michigan
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- Street
- Quinn Road
- City
- Clinton Township
- Description
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Quinn Road crosses Gratiot outside of Detroit. In today's Mile Road system, Quinn Road is the functional equivalent of 14 1/2 Mile Road.
This approximate location represents the general area of the Quinn Road village, sometimes written as "Quinn, Michigan" in early 20th-century sources. Quinn Road was a rural settlement in Clinton Township, Macomb County, that had a sizable black migrant population starting in the 1920s. Advertisements in the 1920s and 1930s show that Quinn Road residents grew chickens and vegetables that they sold wholesale locally and brought to market in Detroit.
Occasionally, ads mention a specific numbered address on Quinn Road, such as 132 Quinn Rd. It appears those addresses are not equivalent to present-day addresses because the street numbering system in Clinton Township has changed since the early 20th century. More often, we see general references to Quinn or Quinn Road without a specific address. Those businesses would be in the general vicinity of Quinn Road, but not necessarily directly on this street.
By the 1930s, the Detroit Tribune newspaper published news from Quinn Road and advertisements from local businesses. See, for example, Detroit Tribune of June 24, 1933, page 3: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016294/1933-06-24/ed-1/seq-3/. - Mentioned In
- 1927 Detroit Negro Business League Directory, 15 (Burks Grocery Store)
- 1927 Detroit Negro Business League Directory, 15 (Phillips, A. R.)
- 1933-12-23 Detroit Tribune, 2 (Howard Grocery)
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- Quinn Road (Clinton Township)
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