On West Maple Street, 0.3 miles west of South Saginaw Street, on the right when traveling west.
Samuel W. Dexter, of Dexter, Michigan, made the first purchase of land here in July 1824. Four men known as the Byron Company bought this land in 1836 and platted the village the next year. Named after the British poet Lord Byron, in the 1840s the . . . — — Map (db m178250) HM
On Hamilton Street at East Street, on the right when traveling east on Hamilton Street.
Byron Cemetery originated with the 1837 interment of Theodore H. Provost, the son of one of Byron’s founders. According to local historians, Chippewa lived on this site until it became a cemetery. Byron Cemetery contains some sixteen hundred . . . — — Map (db m178328) HM
On West Maple Street, 0.3 miles South Saginaw Street, on the right when traveling west.
Ellen May Tower The daughter of Civil War Captain Samuel and Sarah Tower, Ellen May Tower was born May 8, 1868, in Byron. She attended Chaffee School, the Byron Village School, and a nurse’s training program at Detroit’s Grace Hospital. She . . . — — Map (db m178270) HM
