Incorporated as a city in 1867, the site where Wyandotte sits today was in the 1700s a village for the Native American tribe known as the Wyandot or Wendat, part of the Huron nation. It was from here in 1763 that Chief Pontiac plotted his attack on Detroit. The center of the village was near modern-day Eureka Avenue and Oak Street. In 1818, the Wyandot Indians signed a treaty with the US government relinquishing this land, moving to an area near Flat Rock, Michigan, then to Ohio, Kansas and finally Oklahoma. The name somewhat lives on as Wyandotte County, Kansas. http://www.angelfire.com/mi/WYMUSEUM/page8.html One of the first white settlers to come to Wyandotte in the years after the Native Americans left was John Biddle (Michigan)John Biddle, a Pennslyvania-born former Army Major who fought in the War of 1812 (and later went on to a prolific political career, serving as mayor of Detroit, delegate from the Territory of Michigan in the U.S. Congress, president of the Michigan Central Railroad, member and later speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and one-time candidate for Michigan governorhttp://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/biddle-john.html. (West Jefferson Boulevard, which runs from downtown Detroit south to Monroe County is named renamed Biddle Avenue within Wyandotte city limits.) Biddle purchase a 2,200-acre plot near modern Biddle Avenue and Vinewood Avenue in 1835 and created a farm he called "The Wyandotte." He sold the plot in 1854 to Eber Ward of the Eureka Iron Co. for $44,000. In 1864, he took iron ore from Upper Peninsula and smelted it into iron in huge furnaces which came to be known as Bessemer steel mills, the first in the nation. http://www.michmarkers.com/startup.asp?startpage Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyandotte%2C_Michigan