Note 4 — DETROIT THE QUEEN CITY
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The gateway was located on what is now the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Griswold Street, and a bronze tablet there erected bears a representation of an Indian warrior and the following inscription:
"This Tablet designates the site of one of the gateways of Fort Detroit. The original stockade was known as Fort Pontchartrain and was erected when the city was founded in 1701.
"Through the gateway here located Pontiac, the Ottawa chief, with a band of Indians, passed on May seventh, intending to surprise and massacre the garrison.
"The exposure of his plot on the previous day caused the defeat of his plans and gave the English the supremacy in this region until the close of the Revolutionary War."