Plymouth: Introduction
Plymouth Trail is a fresco mural painted in the lobby of the Plymouth, Michigan post office by artist Carlos Lopez of the neighboring Detroit suburb, Royal Oak. Lopez was invited to submit designs for the mural in the new post office in October 1937 and he completed the mural in April 1938. In the work, Lopez depicted a historic scene of Plymouth in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the town’s early identity as a stop on the stagecoach line between Detroit and Ann Arbor. Although the Plymouth post office moved locations in the early 2010s, the mural can still be viewed at its original site–now a grocery store–at 860 Penniman Ave.
This entry was written and photographed by Rosa Glaessner Novak and photographed by Madeleine Aquilina and Rosa Glaessner Novak.
