the pewabic pottery museum national historic landmark along east jefferson ave. the road east jefferson avenue existed earliest days of detroit. known river road, paralleled detroit river east of detroit, connecting french ribbon farms ste. anne street in heart of detroit. after disastrous fire of 1805, judge augustus woodward platted out new design city, widening ste. anne st. , renaming (and connecting river road) jefferson avenue in honor of thomas jefferson. jefferson became commercial nexus of detroit; 1820 on half businesses on city located on avenue. additionally, many prominent detroit residents of time lived along jefferson, including charles christopher trowbridge, william hull, solomon sibley, john r. williams, antoine dequindre, joseph campau, oliver newberry, , oliver miller. detroit grew , city services expanded, jefferson 1 of first streets obtain new installations, getting iron water pipes in 1838, horse-drawn bus line in 1847, horse-drawn rail in 1863, electric arc...