There are 3 Piety Hills in Detroit...

Detroit has 3 neighborhoods named Piety Hill

 

It gets complicated but if you follow the links, you will see how it evolved.

why was there 3 Piety Hills in Detroit? Well Detroit grew like crazy between the fire of 1805 and 1915    MAP  https://detroitography.com/2012/12/27/44/

 

 

1.   Early Detroit was divided into Wards for political and population management. On these maps are the oldest boundaries for Wards and the lines and numbering were changed and updated

This map comes from the Detroit Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary. org/islandora/object/islandora%3A142034

 

 

2.   This map had been particularly important as I worked on locating historic neighborhoods 

https://detroitography.com/2014/09/12/map-historic-detroit-neighborhoods-1884/

 

 

3.   from Silas Farmer’s “The History of Detroit and Michigan.” A neighborhood called “Piety Hill” in 1884 has different boundaries than what is known in present day as “Piety Hill” in the East Boston Blvd /Arden Park neighborhoods.

https://www.amazon.com/Manual-City-Detroit-Silas-Farmer/dp/0342457934

 

 

4.   East Boston Blvd /Arden Park neighborhoods are near the Northend…

Piety Hill first started in the Victorian Italianate  Registered Historic Places in Brush Park which is East of Woodward. Streets are Adelaide, Eliot, Watson,Alfred, Edmund,starting in the 1850s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brush_Park

 

https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/woodward-east-historic-district

 

5.   The 1853 Ward Map helped me to pinpoint the 1^st original Piety Hill in the old 5th Ward, https://detroitography.com/2021/03/10/ward-map-for-detroit-1853/ The 5^th ward was West of Woodward and North of Grand River. aka Woodbridge/Cass Corridor https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/west-canfield-historic-district

 

Piety Hill #1 Brush Park area

 

Piety Hill no 1 was located in this recently restored Neighborhood called Brush Park or Woodward East. Note the 2nd Empire and Victorian Houses. Built starting in 1850’s/ abandoned by 1920’s.

 this link is a neighborhood map that shows German (aka Dutch was the slang) /Polish/Black  areas and the location of 2nd Piety Hill in 5th Ward

Piety Hill #2 

 The churches were located within the boundaries of the 5th ward 

 No one is quite sure what streets the churches were located. This is

 generally the Woodbridge neighborhood  that has a sprinkling of

 Victorians and other old houses. see this link

https://www/amazon/com/Manual-

City_Detroit_Silas_Farmer/dp/0342457934

  Detroit uses districts now.

Piety Hill #3 is Blessed Sacrament Cathedral area 

see this link  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden_Park%E2%80