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John Wesley Fallas House / John W. Fallas
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By Cameron Zwart, May 5, 2012 | |
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Inscription. (side 1)
John Wesley Fallas House
John Wesley Fallas built this house in 1842 in the village which bears his family name. Fallas platted the village on land he purchased from the U.S. government in 1839. That year, after a bridge had been built across the Flat River, he constructed a three-story sawmill with a chair factory on the top floor. In 1840 he built the first gristmill in the area next to his sawmill on the river. He used lumber from his sawmill to build this house, the oldest Greek Revival style structure in the township.
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John W. Fallas
John Wesley Fallas was born in 1812 at Nelson, New York, where his parents, William and Hannah (Stone) Fallas had lived since leaving Massachusetts in 1804. After spending his childhood at Dryden, New York, he moved to Michigan in 1837, and the rest of the family followed. In 1841, John went back to New York to marry Phoebe Brown. After the couple's return to Fallasburg they had two sons, Henry B. and Charles Wesley Fallas. John and his wife lived in this house until their deaths in 1896 and 1891 respectively.
Erected 1988 by Bureau of History, Michigan Department of State. (Marker Number 1348.)
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By Cameron Zwart, May 5, 2012 | |
| | | 2. John W. Fallas Marker | | |
58.875′ N, 85° 19.483′ W. Marker is in Lowell, Michigan, in Kent County. Marker is at the intersection of Covered Bridge Road NE and Whinnery Street NE, on the left when traveling north on Covered Bridge Road NE. Click for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 13893 Covered Bridge Road, Lowell MI 49331, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 9 miles of this marker, as the crow flies. Fallasburg Covered Bridge (about 700 feet away, in a direct line); Fallasburg Pioneer Village (approx. 0.2 miles away); White's Bridge (approx. 2.7 miles away); Alton Pioneer Village (approx. 2.8 miles away); Robert W. Graham Home (approx. 3.4 miles away); Smyrna (approx. 6.2 miles away); Saranac (approx. 7.1 miles away); The Roadside Table (approx. 8.7 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Lowell.
Also see . . .
1. Fallasburg Historic Village. Fallasburg Historical Society (Submitted on May 11, 2012, by Cameron Zwart of Belding, Michigan.)
2. John Wesley Fallass House. Center for Geographic Information (Submitted on May 11, 2012, by Cameron Zwart of Belding, Michigan.)
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By Cameron Zwart, May 5, 2012 | |
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Credits. This page originally submitted on May 11, 2012, by Cameron Zwart of Belding, Michigan. This page has been viewed 70 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on May 11, 2012, by Cameron Zwart of Belding, Michigan. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
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