Downtown Ann Arbor
By Patti Smith and Mayor John Hieftje
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Patti Smith
A writer, performer, and visual artist, Patti Smith has exhibited her drawings and photographs internationally, most recently Camera Solo at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford. She has recorded thirteen albums, launched by the seminal Horses in 1975. Her many books include Witt, Babel, The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence and Just Kids, which won the National Book Award in 2010. Patti Smith lives in New York City.
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NORTH-SOUTH STREETS
When John Allen and Elisha Rumsey bought the land that became Ann Arbor, they needed to divide it, hence Division Street. Headed west from Division Street, the streets were simply numbered Fifth, Fourth, Third (alternately called Main Street), Second, and First.
In the 1840s, William Maynard began to plat what is now called the Old West Side.
Heading west from First Street, Maynard created a mirror image of Allen’s original system, using Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh as street designations. This created confusion, so at some point Maynard asked the city to designate the original Fourth and Fifth Streets as avenues, and they are called such today.
Second Avenue has a different name today: Ashley Street. In 1889, it was renamed in honor of James Big Jim
Ashley, whose Toledo and Ann Arbor Railroad depot was located on that street. Big Jim Ashley was also a congressman from Ohio and the governor of the Montana Territory; however, he liked Ann Arbor so much that he moved