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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Royal Oak
Royal Oak, Michigan and Vicinity
▶ Oakland County (250) ▶ Genesee County (35) ▶ Lapeer County (19) ▶ Livingston County (30) ▶ Macomb County (118) ▶ Washtenaw County (128) ▶ Wayne County (307)
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| | When it opened on August 1, 1928, the Detroit Zoological Park was unique and progressive in its design. The Detroit Zoological Society commissioned Boston landscape architect Arthur Shurtleff to draw the plans for the park. Shurtleff did so . . . — — Map (db m157817) HM |
| | On this site stood the old homestead of Dr. Firman W. Clawson the original owner & subdivider of Northwood "the Homesite Beautiful"
Planned & planted
A.D. 1900 — — Map (db m33003) HM |
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Several members of this church were significant to its early development. In 1839 charter member Hamlet Harris, "a free colored person" according to the 1840 census, donated $25.00 towards the construction of the first church. . . . — — Map (db m85288) HM |
| | During the early summer of 1818 the first white men to systematically explore this region camped near this spot on the first night they spent in what is now Oakland County. These men were: D.C. McKinstry, Benjamin Stead, John Montieth, A.G. Whitney, . . . — — Map (db m158437) HM |
| | This depressed path, northwest across the Almon Starr land, is the last visible remnant of a trail worn by the feet of Indians and the hoofs of their horses traveling between Detroit and Saginaw until the mid 1800s.
The children of the American . . . — — Map (db m33002) HM |
| | Orson Starr (1803-1873) and his wife, Rhoda Gibbs Starr, (1806-1853) built this home in 1845. Five generations of the Starr family lived here until 1964. The house was purchased by the city of Royal Oak in 1976. Orson Starr came to this area in 1831 . . . — — Map (db m32971) HM |
| | On May 3, 1918, the Royal Oak Tribune boasted that, "architecturally and artistically," the new Methodist Episcopal Church was "the achievement of a master mind." William E. N. Hunter, a Detroit architect and Methodist who designed many . . . — — Map (db m34270) HM |
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Royal Oak Township Cemetery
In 1826 Daniel Burrows donated land for use as a cemetery. The first burial was the infant daughter of Laura Swift Chase and David Chase, who later served as township supervisor and a delegate to the "Convention . . . — — Map (db m85340) HM |
| | Erected in 1839, this building was originally a small frame Baptist church. The village purchased it for a town hall in 1914 and used it for municipal purposes until 1923, when the Royal Oak Woman's Club acquired it. The club, founded in 1902 as a . . . — — Map (db m34271) HM |
| | Saginaw Trail
The Saginaw Trail, running from Detroit to Saginaw through Pontiac and Flint, was originally an Indian trail. In 1816 Michigan territorial government authorized the building of a road from Detroit to Saginaw along the trail. Part . . . — — Map (db m33001) HM |
| | Near this spot stood the oak tree named by General Cass "The Royal Oak" from which Royal Oak Township received its name. — — Map (db m32443) HM |
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