Show marked era in west the first united states land office was opened in detroit under an act of congress passed march 26 1814 saya the chicago journal detroit was then a frontier village with only a few hundred people and all around the town and westward to the pacific the land was still in possession of spain here were millions and mil lions of acres of fernue land awaiting tetU era the opening 0 the detroit office was a momentous event in the history of the republic for it marked the be ginning of the regulated settlement of the mighty west uncle sams first land office housed in a hut was destroyed by the fire which wiped out detroit in 1815 |