Final Resting Place Of Some Of Nanking Township's
Most Outstanding Pioneers
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Designated by Glode Chubb in 1849
Deeded To The City Of Westland in 1968, By
Myra Woodhull and Dale and Marion Curtiss,
Descendants Of Glode . . . — — Map (db m174353) HM
The inscription on the symbol wall is from II Corinthians, 3:17 "Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
The sculpture by Marshall Fredericks was designed to continue the thought conveyed by the . . . — — Map (db m42317) HM
The Iron Brigade
The Iron Brigade became one of the most celebrated military units of the American Civil War (1861-1865). It was composed of five volunteer infantry regiments (2nd, 6th & 7th Wisconsin, 19th Indiana, and 24th Michigan) and . . . — — Map (db m42264) HM
This monument was rededicated on June 6, 1982 and stands as a quiet memorial to those Wyandott Indians who made their homes in this area from 1818 to 1842. A memorial headstone to Chief Quoqua, a former tribal leader who lived in this vicinity, . . . — — Map (db m211412) HM
T.C. Sherwood, president of Plymouth National Bank, contracted in 1886 with Hiram Walker of Walkerville, Ontario for the purchase of a cow, Rose 2d of Aberlone. Both parties believed that Rose was barren and would not breed, and that mistake led to . . . — — Map (db m62359) HM
Erastus Hussey Stationmaster
Erastus Hussey came to Michigan from New York State in 1824 and purchased land in Wayne County. Hussey returned to New York for a time, but in 1839 he and his wife, Sarah, purchased a building located about 125 . . . — — Map (db m177310) HM
1916, August 26 - James H. Lincoln born in Sand Beach Township, three miles south of Harbor Beach, to Burr and Esther (Hoare) Lincoln.
1934 — James Lincoln graduated from Harbor Beach High School.
1935-1937 —James H. Lincoln . . . — — Map (db m213506) HM
State Highway Department
Created in 1905, the State Highway Department, the precursor to the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), revolutionized U.S. highway travel. Working with the Wayne County Road Commission, the agency paved . . . — — Map (db m214721) HM
Established in 1818 and was split off the north end of Wayne County with Winchester made the County Seat. 1820 - 1825 the County included all Territory North to the Michigan Line. Until 1836, included Territory North to Allen County. The 1875 . . . — — Map (db m31376) HM
The author of such celebrated Appalachian novels as The Dollmaker and Hunter's Horn; social histories include Seedtime on the Cumberland and Flowering of the Cumberland. Born in Wayne County, Arnow spent most of her childhood in Burnside. Moved to . . . — — Map (db m67876) HM
There has always been a lot to stop for here.
In the 1800s, the Six Mile Inn was a rural rest stop here along the Chicago Road (today's Michigan Avenue) from Detroit. But the development nearby in the early 1900s of Ford Motor Company's . . . — — Map (db m85498) HM
Or Better Known In Ireland As:
The Great Potato Famine
1845-1850
Ancient Order of Hibernians
We remember the old ones
and the younger for we are the
harvest of the Hunger. They
sleep forever in the land of
their birth and our . . . — — Map (db m165616) HM
Conrad Ten Eyck (1782-1847) built a famous tavern in 1826 about 300 feet west of this marker--the first resting place of travelers, one day's trip west of Detroit. It stood on the River Rouge at a point where the Chicago Road forked. The northerly . . . — — Map (db m32498) HM
This marker commemorates three American Revolutionary War soldiers who lived and died in Livonia. David Dean was born in 1763 and enlisted in the New York militia in 1778. Dean settled in Livonia around 1836 where he died in 1838. A native of . . . — — Map (db m170554) HM
The Indiana General Assembly authorized the formation of Randolph County from Wayne County in January 1818 to take effect in August 1818. Early historians contend that the county's name came from settlers who relocated from Randolph County, North . . . — — Map (db m225004) HM
Forest Lawn Cemetery was part of a parcel owned by Samuel Dexter, who came to Michigan in 1824 from New York State. He purchased 926 acres of land that was incorporated as the village of Dexter. For years, Dexter offered cemetery plots free to . . . — — Map (db m171679) HM
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In 1942, the National Housing Agency designed and built the Norwayne Subdivision to provide rental housing for nearby WWII defense factory workers. It cost $12 million dollars and was then the largest public housing project in the . . . — — Map (db m79300) HM
The Kennedy Family
Emmett Loren Kennedy was born July 5, 1848. I 1870, he worked for his father, Archibald M. Kennedy, on the first bridge built by the Kennedy family. Upon completion of this bridge at Dunlapsville, in Union County, Indiana, . . . — — Map (db m152015) HM
President Abraham Lincoln met an assassin's bullet on April 14, 1865. He made his final journey by train, as his remains were carried more than 1,600 miles from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois, for burial. Mourners lined the train's . . . — — Map (db m294157) HM
Early settlers to Huron Township came from eastern states, including Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. Immigration peaked in the 1830s, spurred by the sale of government land.
Among early settlers to Huron Township were William Sr. . . . — — Map (db m171691) HM
"Bold, courageous, genial and inventive, James H. Audrain was a man in his times almost larger than life. No frontier constrained him. He was in step with many of the men we know from the history books and countless others." . . . — — Map (db m169536) HM
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