Historical Markers and War Memorials in Hillsdale, Michigan
Hillsdale is the county seat for Hillsdale County
Hillsdale is in Hillsdale County
Hillsdale County(66) ► ADJACENT TO HILLSDALE COUNTY Branch County(79) ► Calhoun County(138) ► Jackson County(130) ► Lenawee County(157) ► Steuben County, Indiana(58) ► Fulton County, Ohio(109) ► Williams County, Ohio(92) ►
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On Lewis Emery Drive south of State Road, on the left when traveling south.
Camp Woodbury
On July 2, 1862, President
Abraham Lincoln issued a
call for troops for the Union
Army. Men from Monroe,
Hillsdale and Lenawee
counties met in Hillsdale to
form the Eighteenth
Michigan Infantry Regiment.
Local mill . . . — — Map (db m165558) HM
This church was incorporated as the First Free Will Baptist Church on November 24, 1855. The congregation met at the Hillsdale College Chapel until the present church was constructed in 1867-68. This Romanesque building was designed by a Chicago . . . — — Map (db m32250) HM
On North Howell Street, on the right when traveling north.
D.A.V. 68
V.F.W. 7301
1914-1918 WWI
1939-1945 WWII
1950-1953 Korea
1963-1973 Vietnam
We honor the dead by helping the living Hillsdale County — — Map (db m199750) WM
Near East College Street, on the left when traveling east.
This amphitheater is dedicated to the memory of
Dorothy and Joseph Moller, whose service to our country
in peace and war is exemplary, and whose kindness
and generosity to this College are unsurpassed.
Dorothy was a member of the Board of . . . — — Map (db m199767) HM WM
Near East College Street, on the right when traveling east.
Dedicated May 12, 2017 in proud recognition of the speech given at Hillsdale College by Frederick Douglass on January 21, 1863
Neither law, learning, nor religion, is addressed to any man's color or race. Science, education, the word of God, . . . — — Map (db m199758) HM
On Howell Street at McCollum Street, on the left when traveling south on Howell Street.
The plat for the village of Hillsdale was filed in July, 1839, though the first settlement probably occurred a few years previously. Before that time this area had been inhabited mainly by a band of Potawatomi Indians led by their chief, Baw Beese. . . . — — Map (db m33598) HM
In 1844 a group of Freewill Baptists organized Michigan Central College at Spring Arbor. This college was the first in Michigan to grant degrees to women. Moved to Hillsdale in 1853 and chartered by the legislature in 1855, the school was renamed . . . — — Map (db m34216) HM
On East College Street, on the left when traveling east.
Hillsdale College is an independent,
nonsectarian institution of higher
learning founded in 1844 by men and
women "grateful to God for the
inestimable blessings” resulting from
civil and religious liberty and
"believing that the diffusion of . . . — — Map (db m199766) HM
On North Howell Street, on the right when traveling north.
In Appreciation
to the Hillsdle County
men and women who
served in the
U.S.A. and overseas during
Operation Desert Storm.
Mothers Of The Military
and their supporters — — Map (db m199749) WM
On North Broad Street, on the left when traveling north.
This bronze and concrete sculpture expresses
Hillsdale County's heritage. The branch at
the top of the open circle symbolizes the
original deep forestland; the curve of the hills
at the bottom the glacially contoured terrain.
The figures moving . . . — — Map (db m199753) HM
On South Broad Street, on the right when traveling north.
1962 Walter Ferris •
1963 Frank Gaskill •
1964 George Vanzandt •
1965 Virgil Cummins •
1966 Lloyd Kelly •
1967 Marion Simmons •
1968 Miles Ansbaugh •
1969 Robert Scott •
1970 Charles Lane •
1971 Floyd Bordner •
1972 Harold . . . — — Map (db m199675) WM
On North Howell Street, on the right when traveling north.
In honor of the men and women who served our country during World War II and the Korean Conflict
God is our refuge and strength PS 4.61 — — Map (db m199751) WM
On East College Street at North Manning Street, on the left when traveling east on East College Street.
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be arguing, much writing, many opinions;
for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton
In 1975, The Kresge Foundation recognized Hillsdale College for . . . — — Map (db m199757) HM
On East Court Street, on the left when traveling east.
This Tulip Poplar is a direct bud-grafted descendent of the 600
year-old historic Liberty Tree under which the Sons of Liberty
of Maryland read the Declaration of Independence in
1776. When the magnificent historic tree fell in 1999 . . . — — Map (db m199765) HM
On East College Street at North Manning Street, on the left when traveling east on East College Street.
To recognize the Civil War Honor of more than 500 Hillsdale College soldiers who dutifully answered the call of their county.
Alpha Kappa Phi Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion
Oliver C. Adkinson, 140th Imd. Inf. •
S. L. Armstrong, . . . — — Map (db m199759) WM
On E. Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling west.
Oak Grove Cemetery was privately owned when a section was set
aside for its Potter's Field. This was a place for the indigent to be
laid to rest. About fifty people are buried here, with some in the
woods and most without a grave marker.
The . . . — — Map (db m165571) HM
On South Broad Street (State Highway 99) at Cook Street/East Bacon Avenue, on the left when traveling south on South Broad Street.
In 1839 Episcopalians held the first church service in Hillsdale. Saint Peter's Church was organized in 1844. The original Gothic Revival church dates from 1859 and forms the sanctuary of the present church. Saint Peter's housed the first pipe organ . . . — — Map (db m33602) HM
On Lakeview Drive, on the right when traveling south.
Sandy Beach
People began using Sandy Beach as a
popular, but informal, swimming spot
in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1955
nine Hillsdale County residents formed
the Baw Beese Memorial Park
Association to acquire and convert . . . — — Map (db m160830) HM
On North Broad Street (State Highway 99), on the left when traveling south.
The origins of Catholicism in Hillsdale County date to the 1840s when Irishmen who worked for the Southern Railroad settled here. In 1853 the Reverend Joseph Kindekens of Adrian and eighty-five people organized St. Anthony's parish. The former . . . — — Map (db m33601) HM
On North Broad Street (State Highway 99) at McCollum Street, on the right when traveling south on North Broad Street.
Dedicated to the memory of the 280 Michigan Civil War soldiers who lost their lives in America's worst maritime disaster, the sinking of the steamship "Sultana."
These men were among more than 2,200 Union soldiers returning home from Confederate . . . — — Map (db m33960) HM
On North Howell Street south of North Street, on the left when traveling south.
This plaque is issued by the Historical Society of Michigan in recognition of
Taylor-Moore & Co.
founded in 1894
for more than 100 years of continuous operation in service to the people of Michigan and for contributing to the economic . . . — — Map (db m199756) HM
Near West Montgomery Street at North West Street, on the right when traveling west.
The Oak Grove Cemetery Association held it first meeting November 21, 1859, with by-laws and constitution adopted six months later. During the Civil War, the Cemetery fell into disrepair and became "a disgrace to our town."
In 1867, "The Ladies . . . — — Map (db m165570) HM
On E. Bacon Street, on the right when traveling east.
Mrs. Nancy Stock Sessions
Mrs. Stock was born Wilhelmina Augusta
Seidel in the Pommern province of Prussia
in 1840. She came to this country in 1855
and married Fredrick W. Stock in 1858.
Together they had eight children, five sons
and three . . . — — Map (db m199748) HM
On East Bacon Street, on the right when traveling east.
The Heritage Association 2017
Winona Daughter of The Chief
Daughter of Chief Baw Beese, leader of the Native American Potawatomi Clan, Winona lived in the region of Hillsdale County around the 1830's. Winona's mother was a French . . . — — Map (db m199676) HM
On Griswold Street near Lakeview Court, on the right when traveling north.
In 1849 the Reverend Wilhelm Hattstaedt founded a Lutheran congregation in Hillsdale. It was organized in 1854 under the Reverend Phillip Trautmann as the German Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church. Construction on this building began in 1854, . . . — — Map (db m220422) HM
