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- Home
to three major airports and one of the nation's busiest
marine ports
- Home
to the first traffic light in the country
- Home
to the largest boat marina in the country
[Bell Isle's Detroit Yacht Club]
- The potato
chip capital of the world
- Home
to the oldest state fair in the nation, held
first in 1849
- The softball
capital of the world
- Home
to the largest Arab American population in
the country
- Home
to the first freeway in the country [Davison
Freeway]
- The
only geographical place where Canada is south of the
U.S.
- The birthplace
of the Motown sound, founded by Berry Gordy
- Home
of the fifth-largest library system in the country [Detroit
Public Library]
- A
partner in the first auto traffic tunnel between two
nations, the Detroit-Windsor tunnel [1923]
- Home
to the largest annual fireworks display in
North America
- Home
of the tallest hotel in North America, the
Detroit Marriot Renaissance Hotel
- Home
of the largest NAACP membership in the country
- Host
to the largest free jazz festival in North America,
the Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival
- Home
to two IMAX theaters
- Home
to the "Boston Cooler"
- Home
of the typewriter, patented in 1829 by Detroiter
William Austin Burt
- Home
of the first paved mile of concrete highway,
along Woodward Avenue
- A bowling
mecca, with the most registered bowlers in the U.S.
- Home
to the largest building ever moved on wheels [the
Gem Theater] in 1999
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