1883
First zoo in Detroit, result of bankrupt circus. Sited where Tiger Stadium once stood.
1911
First meeting of Detroit Zoological Society
1916
Royal Oak site of Detroit Zoo . . . — — Map (db m213154) HM
The student population in Royal Oak's district schools had increased to one-hundred fifty pupils which necessitated the building of a larger school.
In September, 1902, the new school was opened for session. It was named Union School because . . . — — Map (db m213125) HM
This one room school was built in 1907. It was moved to the village in 1984 from Ten Mile Road east of Rushton Road, Green Oak Township. — — Map (db m150889) HM
With encouragement from Henry Ford and
his son, Edsel, in 1932, what is today
Lawrence Technological University
established its first campus in the former.
Henry Ford Trade School building adjacent
to the Model T assembly complex
in Highland . . . — — Map (db m226162) HM
Lawrence Tech was chartered in 1932 by the Lawrence brothers, Russell E. and E. George. The college was located in Highland Park on Woodward Avenue until 1955, when the first building opened on this campus. Lawrence Tech, founded as an undergraduate . . . — — Map (db m34596) HM
The land upon which you stand was generously donated by a very remarkable woman, Miss Mary Elizabeth Thompson. Her great-grandparents and grandparents were pioneer settlers of Southfield Township. During a time when it was rare for a woman to . . . — — Map (db m110137) HM
Educator Mary E. Thompson (1871-1967) grew up in this house, which was built sometime between 1842 and 1864. She was considered "a woman of superior native ability" by the dean of pedagogy at New York University where she received a doctorate in . . . — — Map (db m110177) HM
A booming automobile industry challenged resources.
The first Daniel Whitfield School was opened in 1852 to meet the needs of Sylvan Lake's children. Four decades later a bigger building replaced this small, one-room wooden schoolhouse. The . . . — — Map (db m173598) HM
Can you smell the chalk dust? Students in rural schools used slates rather than paper. Boys and girls had separate entries and did not sit together. One teacher taught all grades using books you will find in the desks. Schools changed over time. Log . . . — — Map (db m200027) HM
This land served as the local schoolhouse site from 1836 to 1895. The original schoolhouse situated here was built of hewn logs and oak shakes. Stonecrest was constructed as a one-room schoolhouse in 1860. The teacher at Stonecrest in 1868-69 was . . . — — Map (db m136645) HM
Four Towns received its name because it is near the point where the townships of West Bloomfield, Commerce, Waterford, and White Lake meet. In 1866 a frame schoolhouse was built here, on land donated by Nathan R. Colvin. From that year until 1930 . . . — — Map (db m46645) HM
The heart of the lake country was well-served by the trolleys
in the early 1900s. No stop in the entire Detroit United Railway (DUR) trolley system was more popular than the Orchard Lake stop located here, where the parallel . . . — — Map (db m105135) HM
During the 1903-1904 school year Alexander Reid built this two-room school, known commonly as the Lupton Schoolhouse, on land donated by George T. Stanley. Reid had come to Lupton only four years before. The 1904-1905 class consisted of ninety-eight . . . — — Map (db m104121) HM
Settled in the year 1874 by the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Railroad, the new community was named for Augustine Smith Gaylord, an attorney for the railroad. Born in Jefferson, Ohio in 1831, he started the Saginaw Public School System in 1851. He . . . — — Map (db m33369) HM
Side A
St. Mary's Church began as a mission of the Catholic diocese of Grand Rapids. The first church was built around 1884. The parish grew to become a predominantly Polish congregation while under the pastorate of Father Casimir Skory . . . — — Map (db m33374) HM
The first Central School was built in 1871. The Grand Haven Tribune hailed the belfry-topped school as the "finest in the state" and "the pride of every citizen of Grand Haven." The newspaper blamed arsonists for burning the school on May 5, . . . — — Map (db m89379) HM
Khardomah Lodge
In 1873 lumberman James Brayton built a cottage here, which he and his wife named "Khardomah Lodge." Susan Hill Yerkes bought the property in 1919, adding thirteen rooms and converting the cottage to a summer hotel, thus . . . — — Map (db m89164) HM
Hope College's NEA Big Read Lakeshore is a community-wide reading program that takes place annually in November. In collaboration with over 50 community partners, our Lakeshore community comes around a chosen book and use this shared experience . . . — — Map (db m204479) HM
In 1854, seven years after Dutch settlers came to this area, the Reformed Church in America established an English-language preaching mission in Holland. Principals from the Holland Academy, which became Hope College in 1866, served as early . . . — — Map (db m184274) HM
In 1851, four years after settlers from the Netherlands founded Holland, the Pioneer School was established to meet some of the educational needs of the young colony. This school, the predecessor of Hope College, received direction and financial . . . — — Map (db m182003) HM
Van Vleck Hall Side 1:
This building was named for the Reverend John Van Vleck, principal of the Holland Academy from 1855 to 1859. After the Reverend Albertus C. Van Raalte raised the necessary funds for the building, Van Vleck designed and . . . — — Map (db m182017) HM
Theological training began here in 1866 when seven of the first eight graduates of Hope College petitioned the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America for such training. The request was granted and classes were begun, using the facilities . . . — — Map (db m181995) HM
Built in 1891, DeWitt School typifies the one-room schools of the turn of the century. It stands on an acre of land that was donated by the DeWitt and Bosch families. Classes for grades one through eight were held in it until 1957. At one time, a . . . — — Map (db m89161) HM
A forest fire destroyed
Bearinger’s log schoolhouse, known as Grace
School, in 1919. The
following year this
structure was built of
locally gathered fieldstones no doubt chosen
as a material resistant
to fire. This building
served Bearinger . . . — — Map (db m233772) HM
The Glawe (Glove) School was established in the 1880’s. It was built on Ocqueoc Road in Ocqueoc Township. On land that was donated by Christian Glawe.
The school was in continuous use until 1960. After that it was used for church functions until . . . — — Map (db m122182) HM
Saint Michael Catholic ParishJoseph Voith, a German Catholic originally from Bavaria, settled Maple Grove Township in 1854. His brother-in-law, George Henige, hosted Maple Grove’s first Catholic mass on April 17, 1865. Three other Bavarian . . . — — Map (db m180640) HM
Spaulding Township was organized in 1858. Thirteen years later, Peter and Orissa Hess deeded this site to the first school district of the township for the sum of ten dollars. That structure was replaced in 1915. Ten years later, fire destroyed the . . . — — Map (db m180572) HM
In 1884 the first school in this area was established on the Hughson farm site. About halfway through the 1886 school term, that building burned. The term was completed in a blacksmith shop. Before the year was out, however, a frame school had been . . . — — Map (db m179791) HM
Carsonville's high school building was located at this
site and served area students from 1917 to 1975 at which
time a new high school opened two miles east of the village. While.
the building was razed in 1990, the following year four new . . . — — Map (db m212456) HM
This handsome building was constructed in 1859 by Sanilac
County's first lawyer, John Devine, and served as his law office
until the end of the 19th century. It was then remodeled to
become the library for the village of Lexington and opened . . . — — Map (db m212418) HM
The building housed K-12 1888 - 1940, with 321 graduates It was then used for elementary students from 1940 - 1961 and as the Bancroft Masonic Temple until 2006.
Razed June 4, 2007 — — Map (db m239783) HM
Corunna Public Schools
The Corunna School District was organized in 1842. Later that year a one-story frame schoolhouse was constructed. A teacher, Miss Cook, was hired in 1843 and received the "unprecedented salary of $2.50 per week" and . . . — — Map (db m119410) HM
Known more recently as Juddville, Judd’s Corners was first settled in 1853 when Connecticut native John Judd purchased 400 acres of land encompassing this area from the Hazelton brothers, who owned much of the township. A log school was erected in . . . — — Map (db m180637) HM
[Panel 1]
In 1833, Owosso's founding fathers overlooked this river and envisioned a beautiful city on its banks. Thousands of years before, the river course was formed as the last glaciers retreated north. The Chippewas named it . . . — — Map (db m240993) HM
Woodhull Township Hall. Woodhull Township was organized in 1838 and named for brothers John and Josephus Woodhull, who had begun purchasing land in this area in 1837. In 1895 the township built a hall northeast of here. By the 1960s, the . . . — — Map (db m174766) HM
In 1866 this bell was mounted on the first school located on the northwest corner of East Church St. and Walker St. In 1879 the bell was removed to the three story brick school on this site. It was used until 1932.
Restored the year of Capac . . . — — Map (db m179793) HM
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish
Father Lawrence Kilroy established Catholic churches throughout St. Clair County during the early nineteenth century. In Kenockee he founded a cemetery and the "log church," the precursor of Our Lady of Mount . . . — — Map (db m155047) HM
East China Township was set off from China Township in 1859. In 1868 Harriet J. Comstock, an heir of pioneer Andrew J. Westbrook, sold a parcel of land to School District No. 2. A frame school, built on the site prior to 1853, was replaced by this . . . — — Map (db m169599) HM
Bell from the bell tower of the Emily Ward Academy. Academy started 1845. Building built 1847 by Eber Brock Ward.
Donated by: Carroll Brown — — Map (db m217807) HM
Emily Ward established the Newport Academy about 1845 to provide educational opportunities for area children. Miss Ward was a niece of Samuel Ward, the founder of Newport (now Marine City), and the sister of Eber Brock Ward, a shipping magnate and . . . — — Map (db m41199) HM
Lake Huron's basin was formed by glacier movement over 20,000 years ago. The lake was created when melting ice filled the basin gouged by the glaciers. Lake Huron took its present shape around 3,000 years ago.
Lake Huron is the second largest . . . — — Map (db m76081) HM
On September 9, 1908, the third Port Huron High School building opened here, where two previous high schools had stood. Port Huron architect George Harvey designed this Second Renaissance Revival-style school, constructed of brick and limestone. A . . . — — Map (db m212489) HM
In 1902 the city of Port Huron secured money from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to erect a municipal library. Two years later, this grand, Beaux-Arts-style building was completed at a cost of $45,000. Chicago architects Patton and Miller . . . — — Map (db m76105) HM
Mural #1
1851 Lumber Camp
S. Main Street & Brockway Rd.
Left side: White Pine — Michigan's State Tree
Right side: Roll Away on the bank of Mill Creek
Mural #2
from 1850 - 1889
Brockway Centre . . . — — Map (db m165979) HM
Here resided from 1835 to 1849
John Stewart Barry
Governor of Michigan, 1843-46; 1850-52
He was born January 29, 1802, in Amherst, New Hampshire; came to White Pigeon in 1831; to Constantine in 1834; kept a general store and . . . — — Map (db m73001) HM
Only two buildings have occupied
107 W. West Street, and both were
schools. The first, a three-story
Union School, was built in 1861.
It was torn down in 1916 and the
present two-story building was built.
In its first 93 years, this . . . — — Map (db m220328) HM
In recognition of dedicated service
S. N. Crose, Fire Chief
April 19, 1937 - December 31, 1985
The Meneely Bell was purchased in 1868 for a fire station
located on what is now known as the North Main Parking
Lot. From 1919 to . . . — — Map (db m212649) HM
On March 11, 1882, thirty-three years after the nation's first state fair was held in Detroit, the Tuscola County Fair was organized as the Caro District Agricultural Association. On September 19-22, 1882, the fair hosted its first agricultural, . . . — — Map (db m160824) HM
This one room country school was built in 1898 and called the Mast School; named after John and Mary Mast on whose property it was built on Gettel Road in Sebewaing, Michigan. It functioned as a one room country school until Christmas of 1947 . . . — — Map (db m181144) HM
In 1856 Millington’s first school, a log building, was erected. Between 1866 and 1867 the number of school-age children doubled, and a frame school was built on land obtained from David Lane, owner of the town’s first sawmill. In 1884 Millington . . . — — Map (db m179787) HM
This building opened as the Paw Paw Public Library on June 26, 1920. Jackson architect Claire Allen designed the library, as well as the nearby county courthouse. Pennsylvania industrialist Andrew Carnegie donated $10,000 toward construction and . . . — — Map (db m68434) HM
Farming played an important role in the city of South Haven's development, from multiple varieties of fruit to dairy products. The first peach orchard was planted in 1853 by Stephen B. Morehouse and in 1857, Aaron S. Dyckman cultivated the first . . . — — Map (db m204773) HM
In 1906 the South Haven School District built this four-room school in Ward 2. The school, designed by Hussey and White of Lansing, was constructed at a cost of approximately $7,000. It was named for local businessman and school board president E.H. . . . — — Map (db m69992) HM
This school was built for Ward One of the South Haven School District in 1898. Constructed at a cost of nearly $5,000 by William Buck, the handsome two-story building was designed by Frank S. Allen. It later took its name from the street on which it . . . — — Map (db m69989) HM
The world-famous botanist and horticulturist, Liberty Hyde Bailey, was born in this frame house. Here in wilderness surroundings he learned of wild animals and plants and attended the local village school. He graduated from Michigan Agricultural . . . — — Map (db m59419) HM
Civic leader Silas Douglas, dean of the UM medical faculty and twice mayor of Ann Arbor, lived in this home at 502 East Huron Street from 1848 until 1902. His three daughters, Kate, Marie, and Louise, shown here around 1890, enjoyed the luxuries . . . — — Map (db m125168) HM
On August 6, 1845, the first graduation ceremony for the University of Michigan was held in this building, which was then the First Presbyterian Church. Founded in 1817 in Detroit, the first university of the state moved to Ann Arbor in 1837, the . . . — — Map (db m182361) HM
Cast iron grilles in an ancient Greek floral motif highlight the frieze of this temple-front Greek Revival house. Built in 1853 for Henry D. Bennett, Secretary and Steward of the University of Michigan, it became the home and studio of local . . . — — Map (db m125085) HM
The University of Michigan Union was founded in 1904 to unite men's student organizations, and to promote university spirit and social interaction among Michigan men. In 1906, the Union organization acquired the home of Judge Thomas M. Cooley for . . . — — Map (db m178555) HM
In this column are stored documents which record the fifty year history of the Michigan Union's contribution to the academic community and its place as the hearthstone of the campus providing cultural, social, and recreational programs, serving . . . — — Map (db m209645) HM
In 1858 Main Street jeweler Joseph C. Watts built his large brick home on the northeast corner of Liberty and Division within easy walking distance of his Main Street shop. Multiple fireplaces, a roof-top widow's walk, and ornate trim in the . . . — — Map (db m125134) HM
Most of the 19th-century homes and churches built between downtown (upper left) and UM campus (lower right) have been lost to 20th-century commercial expansion. In what was once a neighborhood of quiet, unpaved tree-lined streets, residents could . . . — — Map (db m125566) HM
In 1844 Benjamin Ticknor, a U.S. naval surgeon from Connecticut, built this Classic Revival house on his 183-acre farm in Pittsfield Township. He used cobblestone construction, which originated in upstate New York. The rear wing includes a small . . . — — Map (db m101798) HM
Mighty Tough
• The National Forest Service's manual of native trees states that "no commercial species of wood is equal to it in combined strength, toughness, hardness, and stiffness."
• The wood is excellent for burning and is used to . . . — — Map (db m162142) HM
In honor of the founders of Acacia, the National Council of the Fraternity has caused this tablet to be erected on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the order at the University of Michigan, where the Fraternity was instituted.
• . . . — — Map (db m181713) HM
Innovative education has been connected to this site ever since the Union School opened in 1856 as a school for all grades (inset above). Ann Arbor's Argus newspaper reported people "moving here to take advantage of our model Union . . . — — Map (db m177609) HM
Large, luxurious homes with extensive grounds lined Washtenaw Avenue when UM Librarian Andrew Ten Brook built his mansion across the street in the 1860s. Financial hardship soon required Ten Brook’s wife to open a boarding house, providing meals . . . — — Map (db m134521) HM
Professor of Agriculture, the first one chosen for this university, he had already won for himself and his studies many friends, and the people were aroused to great hope for this new science. While holding this office for only the second year, he . . . — — Map (db m181724) HM
In Memoriam Douglass Houghton, M.D. professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology in this University and head of the geological survey in this state. Learned in science, zealous in action while fearlessly engaged in public work, he perished by the . . . — — Map (db m181725) HM
This plaque marks East University Avenue, which served as the eastern boundary of the original forty acres of land deeded to the State of Michigan in 1837 by the Ann Arbor Land Company for the location of the University of Michigan. — — Map (db m109021) HM
The first public university in America to award degrees in engineering, the University of Michigan was among the earliest institutions of higher education to offer programs in aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering, . . . — — Map (db m100411) HM
In 1869, a professor's house (built 1840) on the central campus square was adapted for use as the University Hospital, called the Pavilion Hospital after it was enlarged in 1876. It was the first hospital in the United States owned and operated by a . . . — — Map (db m238625) HM
To the memory of Joseph Whiting A.M. Minister of the Gospel who after he had filled the office of president of an academy of the University of Michigan in exemplary fashion then was selected for the chair of Latin and Greek in that same university. . . . — — Map (db m181728) HM
University of Michigan alumnus William W. Cook (1880, 1882law) believed that the character of the legal profession depended on the character of Law Schools, and that the character of the Law Schools forecasted the future of America. In support of . . . — — Map (db m100342) HM
Side 1
The Martha Cook Building first housed women students of the University of Michigan in 1915. New York lawyer William W. Cook, a Michigan alumnus, donated the building. The Collegiate Gothic residence was named for Cook's mother, . . . — — Map (db m93666) HM
In 1890 a group of women students, alumni, and faculty wives formed the Women's League organization for the promotion of social integration among university and community women. The Women's League was instrumental in the
campaign for Barbour . . . — — Map (db m238624) HM
Horace H. and Mary A. Rackham, generous donors to the University of Michigan, established the Rackham Fund in 1933 “for the benefit of humanity.” Feeling that the graduate school offered possibilities of the most far-reaching benefits, the Rackham . . . — — Map (db m65357) HM
Professor of Medicine in the University of Michigan for ten years from 1850. He taught Pathology and the Theory and Practice of Medicine. Born July 2, 1803, at Vallkill, New York, he studied medicine at Castleton, Vermont where he received the M.D. . . . — — Map (db m181729) HM
When local merchants began the Ann Arbor Art Fair in July 1960, South University catered to both townspeople and students. During 40 years of social and political change, the fair grew into a city-wide extravaganza. In the twentieth century, as . . . — — Map (db m109062) HM
Named for the university's first President in Ann Arbor, Henry. Philip Tappan, and completed in 1894 for use by the College of Literature, Science, & the Arts, Tappan Hall has served the university in many ways, In addition to housing LS&A classes, . . . — — Map (db m181718) HM
In 1837, the University of Michigan was relocated from Detroit to Ann Arbor where the Ann Arbor Land Company had donated forty acres of land for the site of the university. This original forty acre campus was the area of Central Campus bounded by . . . — — Map (db m140415) HM
In the 1898 panorama above, campus buildings had not yet reached this corner. The School of Engineering and its shops can be seen in the distance. Cousins and Hall greenhouses and florist shop occupied most of the first block across South . . . — — Map (db m109051) HM
So named in honor of him who suggested the idea of constructing it Professor Charles Simeon Denison, for forty-two years teacher of stereotomy, mechanism, and drawing in the University of Michigan.
This tablet is placed here by his . . . — — Map (db m100445) HM
When classes began in 1841, Mason Hall (left) housed classrooms, a chapel, a library, a museum, and dormitory rooms. Two professors taught thirteen students Greek, Latin, mathematics, and rhetoric. South College (right), a second . . . — — Map (db m145739) HM
This cenotaph stands as a monument to the untimely deaths of four professors in the early years of the University of Michigan. It was erected in 1846 following the death of Joseph Whiting, Professor of Greek and Latin Languages. Panels were added . . . — — Map (db m184113) HM
In 1913 Hill Auditorium replaced science professor Alexander Winchell's 1858 brick octagon house. It was among several large homes on North University, one of four tree-lined boulevards surrounding the original campus. Harper's Weekly . . . — — Map (db m178008) HM
By the end of James B. Angell's 38-year presidency, a row of impressive buildings lined State Street. The Law BUilding (left) had been enlarged, and the original dome on University Hall replaced. The University Museum, with its square tower, was . . . — — Map (db m181722) HM
Designed by the Detroit firm of George Mason and Albert Kahn, the New Engineering Building was completed in 1904, and enlarged through expansion of its east wing in 1910. Created to anchor the southeast end of the original campus, the building . . . — — Map (db m181702) HM
William L. Clements (1882, LLD 1934hon) was a regent of the University of Michigan (1910-1933) whose life-long avocation was the collection of books, maps and related materials on American History from 1492 to 1800. In 1922, he donated to the . . . — — Map (db m93665) HM
Xi Psi Phi Dental Fraternity
was founded February 8, 1889
at the University of Michigan
by
Lewis C. Thayer •
Arthur A. Deyde •
Walter H. Booth •
William F. Gary •
Eldon Waterloo •
Gordon G McCoy — — Map (db m181716) HM
For over one hundred years the streets surrounding Courthouse Square were a focus for busy Ann Arbor life. Most structures that housed the many businesses and activities around the square are gone. No photo exists of Miss Monroe's primary . . . — — Map (db m171501) HM
Michigan pioneer Elnathan Botsford settled this site in 1825. Harry Boyd Earhart of Detroit, president of the White Star Refining Corporation, purchased the farm in 1917 and named it "The Meadows." The Olmsted Brothers, nationally known . . . — — Map (db m101826) HM
