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Originally Posted by AGDee
The first recorded mention of what became Detroit was in 1670, when the French Sulpician missionaries François Dollier de Casson and René Bréhant de Galinée stopped at the site on their way to the mission at Sault Ste. Marie.
1673: French-Canadian explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, on their way to Québec, pass through the area that will become Chicago.
Both from Wikipedia...
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But that's not the founding of the place! You can't discover Detroit or Chicago when they don't exist.
Also.. you know.. tribes lived there and stuff.