Print, Photographic
Black and white photograph of label for the Gabriel Richard mosaic by Italian artist Andrew R. Maglia at the Greyhound Bus Terminal at Randolph Street and Larned Street. The label explains the mosaic's imagery. It reads:
Gabriel Richard 1767-1832
This mosaic is dedicated to the pioneer priest who served God and Country on the Michigan frontier, 1798-1832, and build Ste. Anne's Church on this site. Left:
1) Log Stockade bounded Detroit in 1798
2) Great Fire wiped out Detroit in 1805
3) Seal of Detroit. Latin: "It shall rise from its ashes, we hope for better things."
4) He nurses sick during 1831-32 Cholera plague
5) Canoe and Batteau when waterways were Detroit's only highways
6) Gabriel Richard delegate from Michigan territory to U.S. 18th Congress, 1823
7) University of Michigan's first building, on Bates Street, 1817, Co-founded by Gabriel Richard
8) Teacher and friend of the Indians
Right:
9) First Organ was brought to Detroit by him
10) Gabriel Richard Library and Public schools in Detroit and Grosse Pointe
11) Ste. Anne's Church built on this site by Gabriel Richard in 1818
12) He preaches to Protestants at council house
13) Detroit's first schools opened by him for children of indians and settlers
14) French pear and other fruit trees planted by the French
15) Issues first books and newspaper on his own press
16) Start of first road from Detroit to Chicago (now U.S. Highway 112) mad possible by Gabriel Richard's bill in congress, 1824.
Designed and executed by Andrew R. Maglia
Sponsored by Gabriel Richard Society, 1958.
Label by Detroit Historical Museum
