EASTERN MARKET
Site — Detroit, Michigan
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/eastern-market-detroit-michigan/

The 1891 market—where the sheds still sell.

A site in Detroit, Michigan, Eastern Market is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1891 market—where the sheds still sell. HauntHunt files it with markets, historic sites and local folklore. The presences in its file go unnamed: the market dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Eastern Market has fed Detroit since 1891 — the city's public market district, the sheds where the region's food has been sold for over a century, the largest historic public market district in the country. The file's documented spine is the market's continuity: a working food market that survived the city's every era.
The sheds' history — the butchers, the farmers, the wholesale nights when the market fed the city's restaurants — is the file's register: a working landscape that has held Detroit's food economy for a hundred and thirty years.

FIGURES IN THE SHEDS
The lore reports figures in the sheds — the dead reportedly seen, the file's haunting being the market's own: presences among the stalls, the butchers and vendors of a century reportedly still in the sheds where they worked.
The market dead are the file's entity — a working district's accumulated dead reportedly still on the grounds, the sheds' figures the food economy's residue.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Eastern Market is the archive's working-market file — a Detroit market district feeding the city since 1891, keeping figures in the sheds. The documented market is the record; the vendors' lingering is the lore of a district that never stopped.
A market that fed a city for 130 years keeps its vendors — the file's suggestion being that the sheds' workforce includes some who never stopped working.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures in the sheds. Eastern Market's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Eastern Market'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Eastern Market (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Market_(Detroit))
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly seen. The presences go by the market dead in the file. Eastern Market's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Eastern Market'. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.
  source: Eastern Market (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Market_(Detroit))

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1891] The 1891 market is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Eastern Market' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on. It remains the site's standing claim.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Eastern Market — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Market_(Detroit)

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