| Michigan (Oakland County), Highland — Pettibone Creek Mills |
| | In 1846 Major F. Lockwood built a dam and sawmill on Pettibone Creek northeast of Livingston and Harvey Lake Roads. This sawmill supplied lumber to Highland's earliest settlers until it burned in 1863. In 1867 Chester Chatfield build a cider mill at the same location. He sold it two years later to John B. Crouse who used it to make both cider and vinegar. A succession of owners followed. By 1877 production had reached 2500 barrels per year. After 1880 the mill supplied vinegar to the Highland . . . — Map (db m20487) |
| Michigan (Oakland County), Huntington Woods — Polar Bears |
| | Dedicated to the American North Russian Expeditionary Forces known as the "Polar Bears".
From September 4, 1918, to June 15, 1919, fifty-five hundred American Soldiers of the 339th Infantry regiment (with elements of the 310th Engineers and the 337th Ambulance and Hospital Companies) fought Bolshevic Russian forces under harsh Arctic conditions near Archangel, Russia. Since most of these soldiers came from Michigan, and of those, most were from Detroit, they were known as "Detroit's Own - . . . — Map (db m14152) |
| Michigan (Oakland County), Milford — Civil War Memorial |
| | Erected to the memory of our comrades 1861-1865 by the Herber Lefavour Post no. 181 G.A.R. Milford committee A.J. Mcall, J.E. Beaumont, G.W.Sterdvant — Map (db m26705) |
| Michigan (Oakland County), Pontiac — L1450 — Oak Hill Cemetery |
| | (Front): On June 1, 1822, the Pontiac Company gave the citizens of Pontiac the first land for a village cemetery. it was "to be occupied and used forever as a burying ground." In 1939, when Captain Hervey Parke was employed by the village to survey Outlot 9 of the original plat of the village, Oak Hill Cemetery was laid out. Many of the early pioneers who had been buried near the intersection of Saginaw and Huron streets and on private property were reinterred here after 1839. The . . . — Map (db m14294) |
| Michigan (Oakland County), Pontiac — Pontiac Monument |
| | In loving memory
of Union Veterans
of The Civil War
1861 * 1865
* * *
Erected by
Frances C. Butterfield
Tent No. 9 Daughters of Union Veterans
1927 Loyalty — Map (db m26703) |
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