Historical Markers and War Memorials in Onsted, Michigan
Adrian is the county seat for Lenawee County
Onsted is in Lenawee County
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Dedicated
July 4th 1932
in memory of the
undaunted faith
of the
Irish pioneers
whose bodies rest in
this hallowed ground
and of Father
Gabriel Richard,
pioneer missionary,
who in 1826 sponsored
the building of the
Chicago Pike
which . . . — — Map (db m165614) HM
Annie Oakley's real name was Phoebe Moses and she was born in Darke County, Ohio in 1860. She helped her family survive by hunting and selling game, or wild animals. Though she learned to use a rifle for practical reasons, she eventually became a . . . — — Map (db m228054) HM
Bill Pickett was born December 5, 1870 in Williamson County, Texas. He was an American rodeo cowboy who introduced bulldogging, a modern rodeo event that involves wresting a running steer to the ground. Pickett was descended from American Indians . . . — — Map (db m228051) HM
,br>The oldest evidence of the use of a bow and arrow was
found in South Africa from about 64,000 years ago. The
earliest use of the bow and arrow in the Americas was by
the Native Americans for hunting and tribal warfare.
Archery was very . . . — — Map (db m228010) HM
Near Michigan Ave (U.S. 12) at Rays Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Born near LeClaire in Scott County, Iowa, on February 26, 1846, William F. Cody worked for a freight company as a messenger and wrangler before trying his luck as a prospector in the Pikes Peak Gold Rush in 1859. the next year, at age 14, Cody . . . — — Map (db m228012) HM
Robert Leroy Parker was a train robber and outlaw who went by the name of "Butch Cassidy." He was born in 1866 after his parents settled in Mormon Country in Utah. As a teenager he fell under the influence of a cowboy rustler named Mike Cassidy . . . — — Map (db m228014) HM
Calamity Jane was born on May 1, 1852 near Princeton, Missouri. The myths and fabrications concerning the life of Calamity Jane are so numerous it is difficult to discover her true story. Legend has it that at various times Jane worked as a . . . — — Map (db m228049) HM
David Crockett was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died as a result of the Battle of the Alamo. . . . — — Map (db m228053) HM
John Henry "Doc" Holliday was a gambler, gunman, and loyal friend to Wyatt Earp. He was born in Georgia in 1851 and it is believed he graduated from a dental college in Pennsylvania or Maryland around 1872. He practiced dentistry for a short time . . . — — Map (db m228018) HM
Near Michigan Avenue (U.S. 12) at Rays Drive, on the right when traveling east.
George Armstrong Cuter is one of the best known figures in American history and in popular mythology long after his death at the hands of Lakota and Cheyenne Warriors at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, but . . . — — Map (db m228016) HM
In 1829, Geronimo was born in southern Arizona given the name Goyathlay, meaning "one who owns yawns." The Mexicans later gave him the name Geronimo, which is Spanish for Jerome. After his mother, wife, and children were massacred by Mexicans in . . . — — Map (db m228021) HM
On Boardman Drive, on the right when traveling north.
"Mystery Hill" has been entertaining and amazing folks since 1952. Thousands have driven miles and miles to see and feel the amazing force of gravity, and to witness how the laws of nature have seem to have gone wacky. Enjoy your visit and tell a . . . — — Map (db m226831) HM
Near Michigan Avenue (U.S. 12) at Rays Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Seen by some as a vicious murderer and others as a gallant Robin Hood, the famous outlaw Jesse Woodson James was born September 5 in 1847, in Cay County, Missouri. Jesse and his older brother Franklin lost their father in 1849, when the Reverend . . . — — Map (db m228055) HM
On Michigan Route 50, on the right when traveling west.
This boulder marks La Plaisance Bay Pike from Monroe to Cambridge Junction surveyed 1830 also Springville Inn built 1841 used by Irish Hills and Cambridge pioneers as a center for political and debating - gatherings, etc. — — Map (db m228060) HM
Lassos are typically used to catch large animals like horses and bulls. Some people say Native Americans invented the lasso, but others say ancient Greeks used them first. Ancient Greeks were said to use them to fight people in wars, but in the . . . — — Map (db m228052) HM
In its early days, the town of Deadwood took pride in being lawless, murdering anyone who dared to bring civility. After the death of Wild Bill Hickock and the acquittal of his killer, Jack McCall, it became apparent that Deadwood needed law and . . . — — Map (db m228011) HM
Born in the Grand River Valley in what is now South Dakota, Sitting Bull, or Tatanka Yotanka, received early recognition from his tribe as a warrior and man of vision. During his youth he joined in the usual tribe as a warrior and man of vision. . . . — — Map (db m228008) HM
On Michigan Route 12, 3 miles east of Highway 50, on the right when traveling west.
St. Joseph's Church
St. Joseph's Church originated as a missionary church during the 1850s. Priests from Adrian, Clinton, Manchester, Tecumseh and Monroe served the parish until the first resident priest arrived in 1954. The original church, . . . — — Map (db m165289) HM
Born in Illinois in 1837, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok first gained notoriety as a gunfighter in 1861 when he coolly shot three men who were trying to kill him. A highly sensationalized account of the gunfight appeared six years later in the . . . — — Map (db m228017) HM
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. The third of five sons born to Nicholas and Virginia Ann Earp, he spent his early life in Illinois and Iowa. As a young teenager, Wyatt repeatedly tried to run away and join his . . . — — Map (db m228015) HM
