This 10-pound Parrott cannon is a replica of the cannons used by Battery M of the 1st Michigan Artillery, assigned to the Eighth Michigan Cavalry Regiment.
Under the command of Colonel John Stockton, the Regiment trained in 1862-63 at Camp . . . — — Map (db m256905) HM
In 1818 Territorial Governor Lewis Cass proclaimed the third Michigan County to be called Macomb. At that time the young General was Commander of the Fifth Military Department in Detroit. Born in that city in 1782, son of prominent local . . . — — Map (db m146870) HM
In honoring the memory of General Alexander Macomb as a military hero of the War of 1812 and as a scholar and civil administrator of the Michigan Territory's largest county in 1818, may this statue serve as a reminder to future generations of the . . . — — Map (db m256903) HM
Mount Clemens Carnegie building was erected in 1904 and was the first Carnegie Library built in Macomb County. It is one out of 1,681 such libraries across the United States financed by Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist and philanthropist. The . . . — — Map (db m85696) HM
In memory of
the Eighth Mich. Vol. Cav.
Col John Stockton
1862 - 1865
Dedicated by the survivors
on
Memorial Day, May 30, 1914. — — Map (db m256906) WM
The first mayor of Mount Clemens, Josua Dickinson, built this Italianate house in 1869. His daughter Katherine (1849-1882), the great-granddaughter of city founder Christian Clemens, and his son-in-law, George M. Crocker (1848-1918), moved into it . . . — — Map (db m85660) HM
Mark A. Barbret • Shane H. Ahmed • Stephen M. Okray • Tarryl B. Hill • Gentian Marku • Donald L. Munn II • Jason R. Freiwald • Anthony A. Dilisio • Ergin V. Osman • In C. Kim • Allan Klein • Jason A. Lehto • Robert M. Friese • D. Alex Knapp • . . . — — Map (db m256907) WM
The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan sent Edward Magee to Mount Clemens in 1849. The interest generated by this missionary visit culminated a year later when the Grace Episcopal congregation was formed. In December of that year Michigan's first . . . — — Map (db m85763) HM
The only Macomb County Native to play in the National Basketball Association (as of 2012) and considered the county's best ever. Joe began his basketball career at Warren Fitzgerald High School, where he once scored 51 points in a single game, . . . — — Map (db m147028) HM
John DiGiorgio played high school football as a Linebacker and Running Back for Utica Eisenhower High school. He led Eisenhower to the state finals in 1999 and 2000 and was named to the All-State Team. As a senior, John was a "Dream Team Pick" . . . — — Map (db m147034) HM
When this Collegiate Gothic Church, designed by Cleveland architect Herman W. Maurer, was dedicated during the week of of January 3, 1926, the Mount Clemens Daily Leader called it a "Monument to Unity of Action." Over a century earlier, in . . . — — Map (db m263533) HM
For seven decades, Mount Clemens was internationally renowned as a mineral bath resort city. In 1865 the first well was sunk to obtain brine for salt production. Because of the high cost of separating the salt from the various other minerals and . . . — — Map (db m85658) HM
The Fair Labor Standards Act (the Act) was enacted by Congress in 1938 to regulate workers' hours and wages. The United States Supreme Court interpreted an important provision of the Act in 1946 in a case arising in Mount Clemens.
The Mount . . . — — Map (db m146845) HM
1880 Mt. Clemens 2010
Old Crowd
Centitrigintennial
The Old Croud
Est. 1880
Mount Clemens, Michigan
The members of the "Old Crowd" have gathered here at the county seat on the third Thursday of August for a parade and a day of fun . . . — — Map (db m256900) HM
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Opened in 1899, the Saint Joseph Sanitarium and Bath House is the only building remaining from the Mount Clemens bath era. Beginning in 1870, people suffering from rheumatism, blood poisoning, diabetes and skin diseases, among . . . — — Map (db m85643) HM
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In 1870 Father Camillius Maes of Saint Peter Parish erected Saint Mary's School on this lot, adjacent to the church. When the grammar school opened in that year, it was the first Catholic school in the city and in Macomb . . . — — Map (db m85703) HM
This cannon is a replica of the six-pounders used by both the British and Americans in the War of 1812. It was at the Battle of Plattsburg at Lake Champlain, New York, where 3,500 American soldiers under the command of General Alexander Macomb . . . — — Map (db m256901) HM
While working as a railway newsboy on the Detroit-Port Huron line, Tom Edison often stopped in Mount Clemens. He made friends with station agent J.U. Mackenzie and in 1862 saved Mackenzie's young son from death by a train. In gratitude Mr. Mackenzie . . . — — Map (db m143408) HM
In observance of the 175th anniversary of the City of Mount Clemens, the citizens of this proud community dedicate this clock to all the individuals and families whose energies and sacrifices have made Mount Clemens one of our state's truly . . . — — Map (db m256908) HM
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Organized on July 3, 1854, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was the first German Protestant congregation in Mount Clemens. Its founding trustees were John Rossow and Abraham Devantier from Prussia, John William Miller and Carsten . . . — — Map (db m85723) HM
