Near U.S. 41, 0.5 miles north of Airport Park Road, on the right when traveling north.
Long before Columbus reached America, Indians extracted native copper in the Lake Superior region and worked it into articles which were used by tribes throughout the continent. French explorers learned of the vast copper deposits but were not able . . . — — Map (db m201426) HM
Near S. Lakeshore Road (State Highway 25) 0.2 miles south of Atwater Road, on the left when traveling south.
"White Rock" is steeped in history and oral traditions. Henry Schoolcraft, in his Travels of 1820, speaks of the White Rock and its prominence. He says, "White Rock, an enormous detached mass of transition limestone standing in the lake at the . . . — — Map (db m68867) HM
Near S. Lakeshore Road (State Highway 25) 0.2 miles south of Atwater Road, on the left when traveling south.
In the early 1800s, "White Rock", a point well known to the Indians and early voyagers, played a significant role in defining settlements.
The Act establishing the Territory of Michigan was passed January 11, 1805, and took effect June . . . — — Map (db m68866) HM
On South Lake Shore Road (Michigan Route 25) 0.2 miles south of Atwater Road, on the right when traveling north.
The White Rock in Lake Huron, opposite this stone, long venerated by the Indian tribes of Michigan, marks the northern line of the territory released by them to the United States under the treaty made at Detroit, Nov. 17, 1807. This plaque replaces . . . — — Map (db m213219) HM
On Grant Street south of White Rock Road, on the right when traveling south.
Named after a boulder in Lake Huron that was used as a landmark in the Indian Treaty of 1807, the village was settled about 1860. Destroyed in the Great Fire of 1871, the town was soon rebuilt, including a schoolhouse. The present building was . . . — — Map (db m154098) HM
On East Bay Street, 0.2 miles east of South Beck Street (State Highway 25), on the right when traveling east.
Here, on July 1, 1845, three Lutheran missionaries, Rev. Johann J.F. Auch, Rev. J. Simon Dumser, and Rev. George Sinke, arrived. The Lutheran leader, Rev. Friedrich Schmid, sent them from Ann Arbor to evangelize the Chippewa Indians. A log chapel . . . — — Map (db m131772) HM
On West Circle Drive, 0.2 miles east of Kalamazoo Street, on the left when traveling east.
Side 1
The small depression between Beaumont Tower and the Music Practice Building, known today as Sleepy Hollow, is the last vestige of a small, spring-fed brook entering the campus from the north and draining into the Red . . . — — Map (db m106834) HM
Near North Washington Square, on the right when traveling north.
Educated first in Odawa (Ottawa) skills and traditions, Andrew J. Blackbird struggled to find the resources to Euro-American schools. He eventually studied at Ypsilanti State Normal School. His command of English enabled him to work as an . . . — — Map (db m103710) HM
On Okemos Road at Hamilton Road, on the right when traveling north on Okemos Road.
Chief Okemos
Okemos was born in Shiawassee County around 1775. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Sandusky during the War of 1812 and won the respect of the Saginaw Chippewa people. Chief Okemos later signed several treaties on behalf . . . — — Map (db m84683) HM
On Okemos Road at Mt. Hope Road, on the right when traveling north on Okemos Road.
Erected to the memory
of
Chief Okemos
of the Chippewas
whose tribe once occupied the ground
upon which this school now stands.
* Brave in battle * Wise in council *
* Honorable in peace *
After his people became . . . — — Map (db m103011) HM
On Methodist Street east of Okemos Road, on the right when traveling west.
About 1839 Joseph H. Kilbourne settled in this vicinity on land previously occupied by Chief Okemos and several hundred Indians. He became the first postmaster of Sanford (present-day Okemos) in 1840 and served in the Michigan legislature from 1847 . . . — — Map (db m176008) HM
On East Superior Avenue (State Highway 69) 5.9 miles east of South 5th Street, on the right when traveling east.
July 4th 1661 As a matter of conjecture
Father Menard somewhere along this river either died or
was murdered while on his way
southward from L’Anse to visit the Menominee Indians — — Map (db m125036) HM
Near County Road 424, 0.5 miles north of Pentoga Trail.
Here, in 1851, U.S. surveyor Guy H. Carleton discovered an Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indian village, cemetery and camp ground. Chief Edwards, last ruler at Chicaugon Lake, received a patent for this land in 1884. Selling it in 1891, he and his wife Pentoga, . . . — — Map (db m103462) HM
Near County 424, 0.5 miles north of Pentoga Trail.
Discover the site of a pre-European Native American settlement and permanent area headquarters where Ojibwe bands congregated. Wooden burial structures protect and mark graves of these ancient bands. When Chief Edwards moved towards Lac Vieux Desert . . . — — Map (db m103463) HM
On South Bamber Road near O'Connor Drive, on the right when traveling north.
In the 1850s, the Methodist Episcopal (Indian) Church established the Bradley Mission School and Indian Cemetery in this area. The cemetery served the mission until the late 1860s. Only a few grave markers are visible and it is not known how many . . . — — Map (db m91737) HM
On Nottawasepee just west of Chicago Road, on the right when traveling west.
Part of an ancient network of travel routes extending across southern Michigan
Nottawa Sepee Street is a remnant of the old Nottawa Sepee Indian trail documented by University of Michigan Prof. W. B. Hinsdale in his 1931 . . . — — Map (db m248051) HM
On Bunkerhill Road, 1 mile south of Territorial Road (Michigan Highway M106), on the right when traveling north.
This boulder
marks the site where
John Batteese Berrard
built the first
Indian trading post
in
Jackson County
Erected by
Thomas Wincad
William E. Flemming
1816 — 1985 — — Map (db m88896) HM
On Hammond Road west of Cross Road, on the right when traveling east.
December 4, 1844, Michigan Central College, under
the auspices of the Free-Will Baptists, enrolled five
students and started classes near this location.
Earlier, the newly-chosen president, David M. Graham,
a graduate of Oberlin College, had . . . — — Map (db m165360) HM
On Hammond Road at Cross Road, on the right when traveling east on Hammond Road.
Huron Potawatomi Village
As early as 1825 large numbers of Potawatomi encamped at this location. One of the most prominent Huron Potatwatomi located here was Wabkezhik (Whapcazeek), who was wounded during the 1811 Battle of Tippicanoe Creek . . . — — Map (db m84726) HM
On Hammond Road, on the right when traveling east.
I am thinking of old Spring Arbor and when we first came to Michigan in 1831. I do not
remember the exact date that we left Allen, Allegheny County, New York, but we reached
Detroit the last day of May or first of June and lived near Fort Dearborn . . . — — Map (db m165352) HM
Near Hammond Road west of Cross Road, on the right when traveling east. Reported damaged.
The great chiefs are gone. Their peace pipes are in the sands of the four winds, cold and forlorn, waiting again to be born. There are no Indian ponies, unshod, rushing to the beat of war drums in the sky. There are no wigwams warmed by . . . — — Map (db m210905) HM
On Hammond Road, on the right when traveling east.
This survey map was done by Sheridan Surveyors in
2011, which establishes the Potawatomi
burial site described in local abstracts. A letter written by James Taylor, June 4, 1835 (shown here
at the right) describes this historic site.
The . . . — — Map (db m165359) HM
On Hammond Road west of Cross Road, on the right when traveling east.
In 1992, this 15 ton granite boulder was moved
from a field north of Hammond Road near the
Potawatomi Indian Village "of five lodges” to this
location near the Potawatomi burial ground. An
Indian profile was sandblasted into this rock . . . — — Map (db m165358) HM
On Hammond Road west of Cross Road, on the right when traveling east.
The view to the northeast shows the contour of the mound
containing the Potawatomi burial site, an area measuring 4
rods square (66 feet), marked by 4 cairns. Is this a natural
contour mound or did the natives enhance this site by . . . — — Map (db m165361) HM
On South Kalamazoo Mall south of West Exchange Place, on the right when traveling south.
Kalamazoo River Environmental Importance
Native Americans harvested vast fields of wild rice near the mouth of the Kalamazoo and drank its crystal waters. But by the mid 1800s the river served as a drain for industrial pollutants and urban . . . — — Map (db m216864) HM
This locality, known as Indian Fields, was the site of a large Potawatomie village. The tract included about four square miles. The early white settlers found here fine examples of the famed garden beds. A short distance southwest of this terminal a . . . — — Map (db m190193) HM
On 100th Street Southeast near Meadowdale Drive Southeast, on the right when traveling west.
David Kinsey, the founder of Caledonia village, settled on this site on April 13, 1856. He replaced his temporary lodging, a board shanty, with a plank house shortly after he arrived. Occasionally, Indians would be found sleeping on the first floor . . . — — Map (db m216775) HM
Near Bridge Street at Scribner Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
This tablet marks the site of the first Baptist mission station for the Ottawa Indians on Grand River established in 1827 conducted by Rev. Leonard Slater under the auspices of the American Baptist Missionary Union — — Map (db m240644) HM
On Michigan Street Northwest (Bridge Street NW), 0.1 miles west of Monroe Avenue Northwest, on the left when traveling west.
The Grand, Michigan’s longest river, rises from a spring-fed pond near Jackson and flows 270 miles westward before emptying into Lake Michigan. Formed more than 13,000 years ago by melting glaciers of the last Ice Age, the ancient Grand changed its . . . — — Map (db m153294) HM
On Fulton Street West, 0.1 miles east of Mount Vernon Avenue Northwest, on the right when traveling east.
This area is dedicated to the Ottawa Indian village site that existed along this riverbank, many centuries before the coming of non-natives in this area. It is the heart of a large native community that continues in this region.
Descendants of the . . . — — Map (db m176510) HM
On Fulton Street West, 0.1 miles east of Mount Vernon Avenue Northwest, on the right when traveling east.
Long before contact with Euro-Americans, Native Americans lived near Baw-wa-ting, “the rapids.” Some 2000 years ago Hopewellian Indians built numerous burial mounds in the area. This mound group became known as the Converse Mounds. As early as the . . . — — Map (db m176443) HM
On Front Avenue Northwest, 0.2 miles east of Mount Vernon Avenue Northwest, on the right when traveling east.
Noahquageshik, also referenced as Nawquageezhig and "Chief Noonday," was a very influential Grand river Ottawa Anishinabe (Original People) leader. At the turn of the 19th century, he was one of the Ogemuk (Chiefs) who led bands of the Ottawa . . . — — Map (db m176441) HM
On Bowes Road near Fulton Street Southeast (Michigan Route 21), on the right when traveling south.
Joseph LaFramboise Sr.
1765-1806
The first trading post in the Lowell area was built by Joseph LaFramboise who traded along the Grand River as early as 1793. While its exact location is not known, it was built on the north bank, west of . . . — — Map (db m216759) HM
The Odawa were the people living in the Lowell area when white settlers arrived. They would have said they were Anishinabe, meaning the first people or the original people. The area was heavily forested with an abundance of wild animals such as . . . — — Map (db m217481) HM
On East Main Street (Michigan Route 21) near North Monroe Street, on the right when traveling west.
The Lowell Area Historical Museum invites you to explore the history of Lowell. Look for interpretive boards throughout town. Learn about different events, people and places that have shaped this community.
Imagine a landscape covered with . . . — — Map (db m216761) HM
On Gratiot Street (U.S. 41) at 3rd Street, on the right when traveling east on Gratiot Street.
Isle Royale is an archipelago comprising more than 200 islands 45 miles north of Keweenaw County. The main island is the largest in Lake Superior, 45 miles long and 9 miles wide. There are 70 lakes on Isle Royale, the largest, Siskiwit Lake. Rock . . . — — Map (db m152894) HM
On U.S. 41 at Mandan Road, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 41.
Early Indian footpaths became the trails for explorers, missionaries and fur traders, who came to carve out homes in Michigan’s wilderness. The early settlers began to widen and improve these trails, which became the majority of Michigan’s primary . . . — — Map (db m152799) HM
On Brockway Mountain Drive, 4 miles west of Gratiot Street (State Highway 26), on the right when traveling west.
An ancient vanished race mined native copper hundreds of years ago in countless pits and trenches scattered among the hills from Copper Harbor to Ontonagon and on Isle Royale. The explorer, Jacques Cartier, reported in 1536 that Indians on the St. . . . — — Map (db m154000) HM
Near Brockway Mountain Drive, 0.5 miles west of Gratiot Street (State Highway 26).
For thousands of years, the view from here was of a densely forested landscape. American Indians hunted, fished, and collected copper for centuries. But in 1843, the Keweenaw mining rush was on, and everything changed. Sheltered by Porters . . . — — Map (db m153991) HM
Near Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, 2.1 miles west of South Dune Highway, on the right when traveling south.
…scarcely had we gotten out into Lake Michigan than we were beset by a horrible tempest and in an instant out rudder was broken to pieces…Not being able to control our course, we were during the night the toy of gigantic waves which . . . — — Map (db m208025) HM
Near Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, 2.1 miles west of South Dune Highway, on the right when traveling west.
Once, long ago, in the land called Wisconsin across the great lake, there was terrible hunger and many people died. A bear and two little cubs were trying to leave that place and come around the lake where there would be more food.
They . . . — — Map (db m208029) HM
On Northwest Bay Shore Drive (State Road 22) 0.1 miles north of Omena Point Road, on the right when traveling north.
In 1839 the Reverend Peter Dougherty founded Old Mission, the first Protestant mission in the Grand Traverse area. The church, comprising Indians and whites, was organized in 1843. After 1850 the Indians were allowed to buy land; they and the . . . — — Map (db m204938) HM
On North Main Street (State Highway 52) at West Front Street, on the right when traveling south on North Main Street.
Lenawee County was first settled in 1824 at Tecumseh, which the Territorial Legislature subsequently made the county seat. Pioneers, mostly from upper New York State, then established Blissfield and Adrian, the later called Logan. The largest Indian . . . — — Map (db m102761) HM
,br>The oldest evidence of the use of a bow and arrow was
found in South Africa from about 64,000 years ago. The
earliest use of the bow and arrow in the Americas was by
the Native Americans for hunting and tribal warfare.
Archery was very . . . — — Map (db m228010) HM
In 1829, Geronimo was born in southern Arizona given the name Goyathlay, meaning "one who owns yawns." The Mexicans later gave him the name Geronimo, which is Spanish for Jerome. After his mother, wife, and children were massacred by Mexicans in . . . — — Map (db m228021) HM
Lassos are typically used to catch large animals like horses and bulls. Some people say Native Americans invented the lasso, but others say ancient Greeks used them first. Ancient Greeks were said to use them to fight people in wars, but in the . . . — — Map (db m228052) HM
Born in the Grand River Valley in what is now South Dakota, Sitting Bull, or Tatanka Yotanka, received early recognition from his tribe as a warrior and man of vision. During his youth he joined in the usual tribe as a warrior and man of vision. . . . — — Map (db m228008) HM
The Potawatomi and Wyandot lived along the river Giwitatigweisibi, known today as the Huron River. They traveled the waterway in birchbark canoes as they caught fish, harvested wild rice or bartered with other tribes. Lightweight canoes were easy . . . — — Map (db m202076) HM
On Market Street, 0.1 miles south of Astor Street, on the right when traveling south.
Biddle House. The Biddle House is one of the oldest structures on Mackinac Island, dating to the 1780s. It is an example of piece sur piece en coulisse construction, a frame structure with a log infill fitted into slots. This French Canadian . . . — — Map (db m204427) HM
On Garrison Road north of Rifle Range Road, on the right when traveling north.
Mackinac Island has long been a burial location for the Anishnaabek (Odawa, Ojibway and Potawatomi). Some of the burials on the island are more than one thousand years old. It is a common practice for the Anishnaabek to bury their dead near water . . . — — Map (db m204415)
On Main Street (State Highway 185) west of Bogan Lane, on the right when traveling west.
Indian Dormitory. The Treaty of 1836 transferred 15 million acres of Ojibway (Chippewa) and Odawa (Ottawa) land in Michigan Territory to the federal government. It also required improvements to the Mackinac Island Indian Agency, including "a . . . — — Map (db m204277) HM
On Huron Street (State Highway 185 at milepost 0) at Mission Street, on the left when traveling east on Huron Street.
This is one of Michigan's oldest Protestant churches. It was built in 1829-30 by the Presbyterian flock of Rev. Wm. M. Ferry, founder in 1823 of a nearby Indian mission. Robert Stuart and Henry Schoolcraft were lay leaders. About 1838 private owners . . . — — Map (db m34913) HM
On Garrison Road at Rifle Range Road, on the right when traveling north on Garrison Road. Reported permanently removed.
According to tradition this is the cave in which the English fur-trader Alexander Henry hid out during the Indian uprising of 1763. The floor of the cave, he claimed, was covered with human bones, presumably Indian. — — Map (db m204412) HM
On U.S. 2, 0.2 miles east of Old Portage Road, on the left when traveling west.
Ancient Anishinabe Path
The route that U.S. 2 follows today has served as an important transportation corridor from the earliest inhabitants of the Michigan Peninsulas to the present.
When the Federal Highway System was established . . . — — Map (db m139359) HM
On North State Street (Business Interstate 75) at Marquette Street, on the right when traveling south on North State Street.
The Anishinaabe village preserved their meat
and fish proteins by using drying racks
agwaawaanaak. Meats such as venison
waawaashkeshiwi-wiiyaas, beaver amiko-wiyaas
and bear mako-wiyaas were cut into thin strips
and . . . — — Map (db m214031) HM
On North State Street (Business Interstate 75) at Marquette Street, on the right when traveling south on North State Street.
Fishing in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan for the
Fisherman gigoonyikewinini was vital to the
Anishinaabe survival. During warm seasons these
large lakes required nets namewasab made of
bark fiber cord and nettle-stalk twine which . . . — — Map (db m214030) HM
On North State Street (Business Interstate 75) at Marquette Street, on the right when traveling south on North State Street.
The Three Sisters garden gitigaan was a
traditional way of planting three main agricultural
crops: corn mandaamin, beans mashkodesimin,
and squash okanakosimaan. Each crop
benefitted from one another. The corn seed . . . — — Map (db m214034) HM
On North State Street (Business Interstate 75) at Marquette Street, on the right when traveling south on North State Street.
The traditional healers nenaandawi'iwed or
medicine men were highly respected individuals
among the village due to their medicinal and
spiritual knowledge passed down for thousands of
years. Illness was cured both of the body and
spirit. . . . — — Map (db m214032) HM
On North State Street (Business Interstate 75) at Marquette Street, on the right when traveling south on North State Street.
An Anishinaabe woman anishinaabekwe plays
many important roles in the village. Other than
childbearing she builds, farms, crafts, hunts,
cooks and as this sculpture represents gathers
moozhaginan. She collects over 250 species . . . — — Map (db m214033) HM
On Marquette Street at North State Street (Business Interstate 75), on the right when traveling west on Marquette Street.
The Jesuits
Black Robes of the Wilderness
In the 17th century the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) sent missionaries to the far reaches of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The Roman Catholic order was founded in 1537 by the Basque priest, . . . — — Map (db m139445) HM
On South State Street (Business Interstate 75) north of McCann Street, on the right when traveling north.
The French Come to the Straits
The Straits of Mackinac has been a gathering place for hundreds of years. An abundance of whitefish, lake trout and sturgeon attracted Native people who established seasonal villages on Mackinac and Bois Blanc . . . — — Map (db m139634) HM
On North State Street (Business Interstate 75) south of Spring Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Great Lakes are known for delicious freshwater fish.
Before the white man came, Native Indian tribes supplied their needs with fresh and dried fish from these lakes.
Later, others joined in the fishing business, many of them from the . . . — — Map (db m130127) HM
On Marquette Street west of North State Street (Business Interstate 75), on the right when traveling west.
Some of the Hurons, who were driven from Ontario and the East by hostile Iroquois, finally found refuge in 1671 beside Marquette's new St. Ignace Mission. (Also called Huron Mission). They remained here with the French and Ottawas until 1701, when . . . — — Map (db m139395) HM
Near North State Street (Business Interstate 75) south of East Goudreau Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Man, in search of game, first entered North America during the Ice Age by crossing the Bering land bridge that once linked present-day Siberia and Alaska. Beginning about 9,000 B.C., melting glaciers raised the sea level 300 feet, flooding the . . . — — Map (db m139661) HM
On U.S. 2, 1.2 miles west of Old Portage Trail, on the right when traveling west.
Here on West Moran Bay, a large 17th century Ottawa village was directly connected by trail and water with Michilimackinac center on Moran Bay, Lake Huron. Both bays were named for Trader Morin whose post was at this settlement. The original burial . . . — — Map (db m104013) HM
Near North State Street (Business Interstate 75) west of East Truckey Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Past
10,000 years ago the last Pleistocene glacier retreated across this region, leaving behind the Great Lakes and their drainage basin. The first human inhabitants arrived soon thereafter, living off abundant game, fertile soil and . . . — — Map (db m139794) HM
Near North State Street (Business Interstate 75) north of Marquette Street, on the right when traveling north.
One of the oldest archaeological sites in the country is located in St. Ignace at the Museum of Ojibwa Culture (across the street from here). The Huron village, which was located there, is believed to have looked like this in the 1600s. These . . . — — Map (db m139513) HM
Near North State Street (Business Interstate 75) north of Marquette Street, on the left when traveling north.
When Huron refugees settled on this site in 1671 they established a village similar to the ones they had built for centuries in lower Ontario, their homeland.
The most striking feature in a Huron village is the very tall and very long bark . . . — — Map (db m139625) HM
French traders established themselves in the Upper Great Lakes region after 1644 and were welcome among the Indians. They sought harmony with the native people, learning their language and respecting their customs.
The French adopted useful . . . — — Map (db m139530) HM
On Metropolitan Parkway at Moravian Drive, on the right when traveling west on Metropolitan Parkway.
In 1782 marauding American militia massacred nearly one hundred Christian Delaware Indians at their village in eastern Ohio. Seeking refuge, the Delaware settled on the Clinton River two and one-half miles north of here, on land granted by the . . . — — Map (db m85632) HM
On Dodge Park Road, 0.3 miles north of Metropolitan Parkway (16 Mile Road), on the right when traveling north.
More than 10,000 years ago, people began living on the land we now call Michigan. They arrived after the last glaciers retreated. Caribou, mastodons, mammoths and other animals roamed the plains and marshes in a cool, wet climate. Anishinaabek . . . — — Map (db m234999) HM
On Arthur Street (U.S. 31), on the right when traveling north.
As early as 10,000 years ago, nomadic people were following the bountiful harvests of fish and game the Manistee River provided. By 500 B.C., natives began settling this land, setting up camps and farming.
The lands were controlled by the . . . — — Map (db m97439) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 22) at Lake Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.
Following the fur traders into this region came a few adventurous lumbermen looking for saw-mill sites. Interested by what he saw in 1840, Joseph Stronach built a dam and water mill on the swift, natural outlet of Portage Lake.
Soon homesteaders . . . — — Map (db m97445) HM
On South 4th Street just south of Mather Street, on the left when traveling south.
Frederic Baraga was a lawyer, an artist and a Roman Catholic priest who came to the U.S. from present-day Slovenia in 1830. Baraga (1797-1868) served Native Americans in the Great Lakes region and wrote A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language . . . — — Map (db m206057) HM
Near South Front Street just south of East Baraga Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
During the seventeenth century, dedicated Jesuit missionaries forged into the North American wilderness to live and work among the native peoples of the Great Lakes region. In September 1666, at age twenty-nine, Father Jacques Marquette arrived in . . . — — Map (db m206171) HM
On U.S. 41 at Maas Street, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 41.
On this spot on Sept. 19, 1844, William A. Burt, a deputy government surveyor, was the first to discover the great Lake Superior iron ore deposits. Peculiar fluctuations in his magnetic compass led Burt to ask his men to seek the cause, and they . . . — — Map (db m76314) HM
Near Park City Road at Republic Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Among the earliest settlers in the Republic area, circa 1870, were the Munsons, Polkinghornes, Pascoes, Gibsons, Wilsons, Doyles, Gambels, Petersons, Bergstroms and Dodges. They had made their way from Cornwall County, England; Sweden, Finland, . . . — — Map (db m154298) HM
On 10th Avenue at 19th Street, on the right when traveling east on 10th Avenue.
This
tablet marks the
Bay de Nocquet
Trail
of the Menominee
and other Indian tribes
U.S. Mail runners
and earliest fur traders
also Indian cemetery — — Map (db m88828) HM
On River Road West, on the left when traveling north.
Stanislaus Chaput, a French-Canadian fur trader sometimes called Louis Chappee, became the first settler at the mouth of the Menominee River in the early 1800s. He fought, along with most of the Green Bay traders, in the British attack on Fort . . . — — Map (db m88829) HM
On Bridge Street (U.S. 41) south of 10th Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
This was the home of the Menominee Indians. Nicolet, the French explorer, visited them in 1634 on his futile search for Cathay. Conflict over fishing rights brought on the Sturgeon War here between the Menominee and Chippewa tribes. During the . . . — — Map (db m4414) HM
On West Main Street, 0.1 miles east of Isabella Street (State Route 20), on the right when traveling east.
In 1831 the first white settlers in the area built a fur trading post near this site, called “Little Forks” by the Indians. When Midland County was organized in 1850, 65 people lived here. In 1856, Henry C. Ashmun, the county’s first . . . — — Map (db m163599) HM
On LaPlaisance Road at Lake Street, in the median on LaPlaisance Road.
When the War of 1812 began, LaPlaisance Bay settlement consisted of 14 homes along the creek. Medard LaBadie, considered a hero for his participation in the Battles of the River Raisin and those at Fort Meigs and Thames, was a French settler here. . . . — — Map (db m165272) HM
Near Rightmire Road, 0.5 miles east of Stowell Road, on the right when traveling north.
This land was occupied for centuries by people who lived in close harmony with their natural surroundings. The Indians, or Native Americans, who lived here belonged to various nations or tribes. In particular, the Ottawa (Odawa), Potawatomi, . . . — — Map (db m212668) HM
On East Main Street, on the right when traveling east.
Hull's Treaty of 1807 gave the Potawatomi and other Indian tribes nine sections of land in Dundee Township, "where the Macon flows into th River Raisin". Main Street, Neiman, Day and Dundee-Azalia Roads were the original boundaries.
The Indians . . . — — Map (db m200517) HM
On Toledo Street, on the left when traveling north.
As a part of westward expansion, the United States began occupying lands in southeast Michigan in 1796. The Potawatomi Indians called the vast fertile lands along the River Raisin from Lake
Erie westward home. As the U.S. moved into their new . . . — — Map (db m165523) HM
Near Rightmire Road, 0.5 miles east of Stowell Road, on the right when traveling east.
The Native Americans called it Nummasepee (River of Sturgeon), after the great fish that once thrived here. The first French speaking settlers called it Rivière Aux Raisins (River of Grapes) after the many wild grape vines lining its banks. Now . . . — — Map (db m201608) HM
In the words of Laurent Durocher, "after the defeat of Winchester, many of the inhabitants fled with their families to the frontier of Ohio. Others went to Detroit. The British made several attempts to persuade the Indians to destroy what was left . . . — — Map (db m20905) HM
On East Elm Avenue (State Highway 50) at North Macomb Street, on the right when traveling west on East Elm Avenue. Reported missing.
On this property in 1812 was the trading post of John Anderson, famed Scottish pioneer of the River Raisin.
Anderson, Colonel of the Militia in 1812, was taken prisoner at Detroit, later escaped.
Mrs. Anderson, alone at the time of the . . . — — Map (db m236276) HM
On East 1st Street east of Washington Street, on the left when traveling east.
Beneath this fountain are the remains of Native Americans who lived here about the year 900 A.D. and have been respectfully re-interred. — — Map (db m201616) HM
Near North Dixie Highway (State Highway 50) at Detroit Avenue, on the right when traveling south. Reported missing.
From near this spot on Jan. 22, 1813, 525 British soldiers and Canadian militiamen from Fort Malden under Col. Henry Proctor and some 800 Indians under Chiefs Roundhead and Walk-In-The-Water launched a pre-dawn attack on the sleeping American camp a . . . — — Map (db m236279) HM
Near East Front Street, 0.3 miles east of Winchester Street. Reported missing.
Over this ground, Jan. 18, 1813, 667 Kentuckians and nearly 100 local Frenchmen charged across the frozen river toward the British and Indian positions. The 63 British and Canadian soldiers and 200 Potawatomi Indians made a brief stand there, then . . . — — Map (db m27660) HM
On East Elm Street, 0.1 miles east of North Dixie Highway, on the left when traveling east.
Here in the log house of Jean Baptiste Jereaume the Federal Court of the Erie District, Territory of Michigan, held its first session July 3, 1805. President Thomas Jefferson named Judge Augustus B. Woodward to preside.
Beginning in 1807 the . . . — — Map (db m20909) HM
On West Front Street at South Monroe Street, on the left when traveling west on West Front Street.
From the earliest days of Michigan settlement this corner has witnessed travel of many sorts signaling important events in the history of Michigan.
East lies Monroe’s port on Lake Erie where waves of immigrant traffic came from New England . . . — — Map (db m127984) HM
On Kentucky Avenue at East Eighth Street, on the right when traveling south on Kentucky Avenue.
The Second Battle of the River Raisin Jan. 22, 1813, found nearly 400 American soldiers caught in retreat down this old road to Ohio. Those few who made it to this point, over a mile south of their camp, were ambushed by hidden Indians. The 40 . . . — — Map (db m27294) HM
