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Michigan Historical Commission Historical Markers
Markers of the Michigan state historical markers program administered by the Michigan Historical Commission and its predecessors.
By Paul Fehrenbach, July 18, 2011
Gogebic Iron Range Marker
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On U.S. 2, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Gogebic was the last of the three great iron ore fields opened in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. Beginning in 1848 with Dr. A. Randall, federal and state geologists had mapped the ore formations almost perfectly long before any ore . . . — — Map (db m45035) HM |
| On McLeod Street at Day St., on the right when traveling east on McLeod Street. |
| | Here lived Solomon S. Curry, pioneer in the mining industry of the Ironwood area. Curry, a progressive, broad-minded man, was also instrumental in the building of the city of Ironwood, which through his efforts, grew from a wilderness to one of the . . . — — Map (db m45047) HM |
| On Iron King Road 0.5 miles from E. Ayer St, on the right when traveling west. |
| | On this site, on October 8, 1871, geologist Raphael Pumpelly of Harvard University discovered one of the iron ore formations that created Gogebic County’s “boom era”. The Newport Mine, named for Pumpelly’s home in Rhode Island, began . . . — — Map (db m45048) HM |
| | This recreational area was named in honor of A. Lanfear Norrie, who in 1882 began to explore for iron ore on the Gogebic Range. His discovery resulted in the opening of the Norrie Mine in Ironwood. Soon other mines, such as the Ashland, Aurora, . . . — — Map (db m45038) HM |
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(Side A)
The Hesler house is a rare surviving log house dating from the early settlement of the Old Mission Peninsula. From 1854 to 1856, Joseph and Mary Hesler built the house of hand hewn pine and hemlock logs fourteen miles south of here . . . — — Map (db m98182) HM |
| On Washington Street at Boardman Avenue, on the left when traveling west on Washington Street. |
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Grand Traverse County was officially organized in 1851. Its first courthouse and jail were built in 1854 for $600 on land donated by the lumbering firm Hannah, Lay and Company. The courthouse, a wooden structure, burned in 1862. The county used . . . — — Map (db m98213) HM |
| On West Superior Street near Maple Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | On October 26, 1886, the Presbyterian Synod of Michigan accepted an offer by Ammi W. Wright of Alma of thirty acres of land, containing two buildings, and a gift of $50,000 from Alexander Folsom of Bay City, for the purpose of establishing Alma . . . — — Map (db m91690) HM |
| On Masonic Drive 0.1 miles east of Business U.S. 27. |
| | In November 1885 the Michigan Masonic Home Association was established to raise funds for a home and health care facility for aged Masons. In 1891 Michigan's first Masonic Home, located on Reed's Lake near Grand Rapids, was opened. When fire . . . — — Map (db m91683) HM |
| On East Saginaw Street (State Highway 46) at Fourth Street, on the right when traveling east on East Saginaw Street. |
| | This house was built in 1907 for Wilkie and Rhoda Waggoner Drake. Upon graduating from medical school in 1902, Wilkie Drake (1875-1963) practiced near Detroit and then came to Breckenridge to begin a career that lasted nearly sixty years. After the . . . — — Map (db m106658) HM |
| On East Saginaw Street (State Highway 46), on the left when traveling east. |
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Saginaw and Gratiot County State Road
In 1867 goods for Gratiot and Isabella Counties were shipped from Detroit to St. Johns, then hauled by teams of horses to outlying settlements. In an effort to lessen the exhorbitant . . . — — Map (db m106669) HM |
| On Business U.S. 127 at North/South Main Street, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 127Business . |
| | This county was named for Gen. Charles Gratiot, builder of Fort Gratiot at Port Huron in 1814. A few Chippewas and other Indians lived in the area in 1831 when the county was laid out. A Lutheran Indian mission was set up in 1846 near what is now . . . — — Map (db m90001) HM |
| On West Center Street at North Maple Street, on the right when traveling west on West Center Street. |
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Side 1
Henry R. Pattengill (1852-1918) was Michigan superintendent of public instruction from 1893 to 1897. As a textbook author, an orator and editor of Moderator-Topics, a journal for educators, he shaped Michigan's . . . — — Map (db m91669) HM |
| On West Center Street at South Maple Street, on the left when traveling west on West Center Street. |
| Near North Lumberjack Road near Madison Road. |
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Side 1
In 1926, when George Beck of Ithaca learned that one of the last stands of white pine in Gratiot County was going to be cut, he called on local lumberjacks and rivermen to buy the threatened forty-acre tract and preserve . . . — — Map (db m91707) HM |
| On West Chicago Road (U.S. 12) 0.1 miles west of Park Drive, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Moses Allen fought in the War of 1812, later serving as a captain in the Michigan militia. He became the first "white settler" in present-day Hillsdale County, settling here in April 1827, two years after working on the Chicago Road (present-day . . . — — Map (db m66775) 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 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 |
| Near East College Street. |
| | 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 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 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 East Chicago Street (U.S. 12) at East Street, on the right when traveling east on East Chicago Street. |
| | William N. Lyster, Irish-born missionary, preached in Jonesville in 1836, and Darius Barker organized the parish in 1838. A church featuring Classical and Gothic styling was begun in 1844 and consecrated by Bishop Samuel McCoskry in 1848. Panelling . . . — — Map (db m32190) HM |
| On Maumee Street at Liberty Street, on the left when traveling south on Maumee Street. |
| | Completed in 1874, this structure of High Victorian Italianate design is one of the most magnificent residences in Michigan. The interior, an excellent example of a living museum of the 1870s, contains thirty-two rooms with twelve-foot ceilings. . . . — — Map (db m33656) HM |
| On North Chicago at Williams Street, on the right when traveling north on North Chicago. |
| | Twenty charter members, led by the Reverend Elisha Buck, established this church on July 14, 1839. Founded as a Presbyterian mission, it was reorganized under the congregational polity by the Reverend J.J. Bliss in 1844. At first, worship services . . . — — Map (db m63316) HM |
| On East Chicago Road (U.S. 12) at West Street, on the left when traveling east on East Chicago Road. |
| | A grand celebration and a baseball game greeted the Michigan and Ohio Railroad when its track reached Moscow on September 4, 1883. This Stick Style station, completed the following month, was "quite an ornament to the place," according to the . . . — — Map (db m66791) HM |
| On North Street at Winfield Road, on the right when traveling west on North Street. |
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(Obverse Side)
Mosherville Church
The Mosherville Church was built in 1861-62 on land donated by Joseph and Mary Riggs. Originally part of the Litchfield circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, it became the home church of a . . . — — Map (db m66790) HM |
| On Chicago Road (U.S. 12) at South Jackson Road, on the right when traveling west on Chicago Road. |
| | W. H. L. McCourtie
Somerset Center native W. H. L. McCourtie (1872-1933) was introduced to the cement industry by W. F. Cowham of Jackson in 1897. McCourtie soon went to Dallas, Texas, where he made a fortune speculating in oil and established . . . — — Map (db m33416) HM |
| On 6th Street at Elm Street, on the right when traveling north on 6th Street. |
| | One of the first municipal theaters in America, the Calumet opened on March 20, 1900, "the greatest social event ever known in copperdom's metropolis." The theater contained a magnificent stage and elegant interior decorations, including an . . . — — Map (db m76299) HM |
| On Eighth Street at Oak Street, on the right when traveling south on Eighth Street. |
| | St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church was established in 1889 by Slovenian immigrants who came to the area to work in the mines of the Copper Country. The wood frame church erected by the parish in 1890 was destroyed by fire in 1902. The following year . . . — — Map (db m76302) HM |
| On Seventh Street at Elm Street, on the right when traveling south on Seventh Street. |
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The Italian Hall
The building that stood on this site was called the Italian Hall, and was home to the Societa Mutua Beneficenza Italiana, which aided immigrants and others in need. Built in 1908, the hall housed a saloon . . . — — Map (db m76300) HM |
| On Quincy Street (U.S. 41) at Montezuma Street, on the right when traveling west on Quincy Street. |
| | Hancock (marker side 1)
The Quincy Mining Company platted Hancock in 1859, a decade after the company began mining Keweenaw copper. While many copper towns boomed and busted within a short period of time, Hancock remained stable, . . . — — Map (db m122367) HM |
| On Quincy Street (U.S. 41) at Dakota Street, on the right when traveling west on Quincy Street. |
| | Old Main (marker side 1)
Suomi College was founded in 1896 by the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. The cornerstone of Old Main, the first building erected at Suomi College, was laid on May 30, 1898. Jacobsville . . . — — Map (db m122387) HM |
| On East Lakeshore Drive 0.1 miles east of Isle Royale Street, on the right when traveling west. |
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The Amphidrome
The Amphidrome stood on this site from 1902 until 1927, when it burned. The first hockey game was played in the arena on December 29, 1902, when Portage Lake beat the University of Toronto, 13-2. The Amphidrome . . . — — Map (db m76308) HM |
| On East Montezuma Avenue (U.S. 41) 0.1 miles west of Pewabic Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Many of the Cornish miners, storekeepers and mining captains who immigrated to this area during the Copper Country mining boom (1842-1860) were Anglicans. On July 17, 1860, the Reverend Samuel A. McCoskry, Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, met with nine . . . — — Map (db m76306) HM |
| On Lakeside Drive 0.2 miles from Main Street (State Route 25), in the median. |
| | The Gillingham Fish Company was established in 1886; the Bay Port Fish Company in 1895. At their peak in the 1920s and 1930s, they shipped tons of perch, walleye, herring, whitefish and carp to New York and Chicago in refrigerated railroad cars. . . . — — Map (db m160705) HM |
| On South Unionville Road (Michigan Route 25) 0.6 miles south of Pigeon Road (Michigan Route 142), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Small fires were burning in the forests of the Thumb, tinder-dry after a long, hot summer, when a gale swept in from the southwest on Sept. 5, 1881. Fanned into an inferno, the fires raged for three days. A million acres were devastated in Sanilac . . . — — Map (db m160706) HM |
| On Cedar Street east of 2nd Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Stagecoaches played an important part in developing the Midwest. Michigan’s frontier “fever” peaked in the decade from 1830 to 1840 with a 600 percent population increase. Stagecoaches attempted to fill the demand for fast and relatively . . . — — Map (db m160627) HM |
| On South Huron Avenue (Michigan Route 25) 0.1 miles south of State Street (Michigan Route 142), on the left when traveling south. |
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Frank Murphy was associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1940 until his death in 1949. His earlier career included service as a judge in the Detroit Recorder’s Court and instructor in law at the University of Detroit in . . . — — Map (db m153635) HM |
| On Grant Street south of White Rock Road, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Named after a boulder in Lake Huron that was used as a landmark in the Indian Treaty of 1807, the village was settled about 1860. Destroyed in the Great Fire of 1871, the town was soon rebuilt, including a schoolhouse. The present building was . . . — — Map (db m154098) HM |
| Near Gulick Drive near Park Drive. |
| | The Pointe aux Barques Lighthouse and Lifesaving Station aided mariners for over a century, beginning in 1847. That year the United States Lighthouse Service built the first lighthouse on this site to mark the turning point of Lake Huron into . . . — — Map (db m41201) HM |
| On Moeller Road 2.4 miles from North Van Dyke Road (State Route 53), on the left when traveling east. |
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St. Mary of Czestochowa Roman Catholic Church
The Polish refugees who immigrated to Dwight Township in the 1840s in order to escape Prussian domination worshipped at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Port Austin. In 1903 in an effort to . . . — — Map (db m153627) HM |
| On Lake Street (Michigan Route M-25) south of Madison Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | A native of New York, contractor Charles G. Learned helped build New York City’s waterworks system and the Erie Canal. Around 1857, Learned and his brother-in-law purchased several thousand acres of pine land in Michigan’s Thumb area. Two years . . . — — Map (db m160068) HM |
| On Huron City Road north of North Lakeshore Road (State Route 25), on the right when traveling north. |
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During the mid-1850s the firm of R. B. Hubbard and Company, which included Connecticut-born entrepreneurs Langdon Hubbard, his brother Watson, and cousin Rollin B., built a steam-powered sawmill on Willow Creek. The company . . . — — Map (db m160462) HM |
| Near State Street at Huron Street. |
| | This chimney was built in 1858 by John Geltz. It is all that remains of the lumber mill established that year by William R. Stafford. Port Hope grew up around the mill. For a score of years this town was a center of lumbering in the Thumb. It also . . . — — Map (db m41202) HM |
| On East Main Street 0.1 miles from South Beck Street (State Route 25), on the right when traveling east. |
| | John C. Liken
One of Sebewaing’s most prominent citizens, John C. Liken (1832-1920), came here in 1865 from New York State where he owned a cooperage. Lured by Michigan’s bountiful forests, he opened stave and sawmills in Sebewaing, . . . — — Map (db m160752) HM |
| On South Center Street north of West Grove Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Sebewaing Township was organized in 1853. In 1877 the board resolved to use “liquor money” to build this township hall. The atypical two-story town hall included voting booths, a courtroom, a jury room, a jail, and a meeting hall. The . . . — — Map (db m131775) HM |
| On East Bay Street 0.2 miles east of South Beck Street (State Highway 25), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Here, on July 1, 1845, three Lutheran missionaries, Reverend Johann J. F. Auch, Reverend J. Simon Dumser, and Reverend George Sinke, arrived. The Lutheran leader, Reverend Friedrich Schmid, sent them from Ann Arbor to evangelize the Chippewa . . . — — Map (db m131772) HM |
| On East Main Street 0.4 miles east of Washington Street (State Route 19), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Built in 1907 by local contractor David Pierce, the Citizens Bank Block also housed a harness shop and a library. Albert Sleeper (1862-1934), who served in the Michigan State Senate and as governor, cofounded the bank with his uncle A. W. Merrell, . . . — — Map (db m160467) HM |
| On West Circle Drive west of Abbott Road, on the left when traveling west. |
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The Alice B. Cowles House, built in 1857, is the oldest building on the Michigan State University campus. Built as a "Farm Cottage" on Faculty Row from bricks made of clay from the banks of the Red Cedar River, it was originally the . . . — — Map (db m106907) HM |
| On North Hagadorn Rd at Ann Street, on the right when traveling north on North Hagadorn Rd. |
| | By 1986 this Greek Revival house was the only privately-owned pre-Civil War house still used as a residence in East Lansing. Horace Bigelow (c. 1822-1891) built it in 1849. According to the 1874 Atlas of Ingham County, Bigelow was "a farmer, . . . — — Map (db m106962) HM |
| Near Kalamazoo Street west of Chestnut Steet, on the right when traveling west. |
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Side 1
In 1900 about 625 students attended the State Agricultural College, known commonly as M.A.C. The school was the precursor to Michigan State University. Making a new commitment to serious intercollegiate athletic competition, the . . . — — Map (db m106931) HM |
| On Abbot Road at Linden Street, on the right when traveling north on Abbot Road. |
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Collegeville
In 1849 when D. Robert Burcham settled in this vicinity, Chippewa and Ottawa Indians lived along the Red Cedar River. Burcham journeyed here on the Indian trail that became the Grand River Road, also known as the Lansing-Howell . . . — — Map (db m102977) HM |
| On East Circle Drive at West Circle Drive, on the right when traveling east on East Circle Drive. |
| | Famous horticulturist and educator, Liberty Hyde Bailey, designed this building as the first separate horticulture laboratory in America. Completed in 1888, the structure contained rooms for classes and botanical experiments. It exemplified Bailey's . . . — — Map (db m106911) HM |
| | Local Masons organized in 1915 and promptly hired Lansing architect, Samuel D. Butterworth, a fellow Mason, to design a meeting hall. Butterworth rejected the practice of designing Masonic halls as elaborate classical temples, and instead blended . . . — — Map (db m102986) HM |
| On Kendale Boulevard 0.2 miles north of East Saginaw Street (Business Interstate 69) when traveling north. |
| | In 1920 the Michigan Automotive Trade Association was founded in Detroit. On May 19, 1921, the group was incorporated, with the following officers: G.S. Garber, President: H.H. Shuart Secretary; and Clark Graves, Treasurer. The association's purpose . . . — — Map (db m102983) HM |
| On West Saginaw Street (Business Interstate 69) at Abbot Road on West Saginaw Street. |
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Michigan State Medical Society
In 1819 five physicians organized the Michigan Medical Society in Detroit. Its purpose was "to examine medical students and certify those so deemed as doctors." The group reorganized in Ann Arbor as the . . . — — Map (db m102984) HM |
| Near West Circle Drive 0.2 miles east of Kalamazoo Street, on the left when traveling east. |
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On this site stood College Hall, first building in the United States erected for the teaching of scientific agriculture. Here began the first college of its kind in America, and the model for Land-Grant colleges established under the Morrill Act . . . — — Map (db m106921) HM |
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Monsignor Jerome V. MacEachin
Affectionately known as Father Mac, the Reverend Monsignor Jerome V. MacEachin (1904-1987) was associated with Lansing area Catholics for nearly 45 years. A native of Ubly, he was ordained in 1932. Father Mac . . . — — Map (db m102974) HM |
| On Haslett Road east of Babbitt Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Settlement on Pine Lake, now Lake Lansing, began in the 1830s, but real growth came after the opening of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in 1877. Easy access prompted the Nemoka Spritual Association to begin in 1883 the first of a long series . . . — — Map (db m106964) HM |
| On Zimmer Road at Haslett Road, on the left when traveling north on Zimmer Road. |
| | The Williamston Center United Methodist Church is the out-growth of a Methodist class that met in a local schoolhouse before this structure was completed. On November 5, 1877, members of the congregation pledged money to build this church. Merrit . . . — — Map (db m106405) HM |
| On W. Shiawassee Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Side A Andrew Carnegie credited libraries with opening the "treasures of knowledge and imagination through which youth may ascend." This belief led him to provide funding for more than 1,600 libraries across the United States. Designed by . . . — — Map (db m103324) HM |
| On North Capitol Avenue near Ottawa Street. |
| | The first recorded Methodist meeting in Lansing was held in 1845 when the Reverend Lewis Coburn preached in the log cabin of Joab Page of North Lansing. In 1850 a Methodist class (congregation) was formed in what is now central Lansing. Its first . . . — — Map (db m103630) HM |
| On E. Michigan Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Church of the Resurrection On June 15 1922, the Most Reverend Michael J. Gallagher, bishop of Detroit, sent Father John A. Gabriels to Lansing to establish a Catholic parish east of the Pere Marquette railroad tracks that would include East . . . — — Map (db m103656) HM |
| On E. Saginaw Street at N. Washington Avenue on E. Saginaw Street. |
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Durant Park William C. Durant was one of Michigan's most important industrialists and the founder of the General Motors Corporation. In 1919 Durant purchased this three-acre city block, once the estate of Mortimer Cowles, an Eaton Rapids . . . — — Map (db m103629) HM |
| On North Chestnut Street. |
| | Side A This church, Lansing's first congregation to affiliate nationally (with the Marshall Presbytery), was founded on December 17, 1847. It was organized by the Reverend Calvin Clark, an agent for the American Home Missionary Society. . . . — — Map (db m103502) HM |
| On N. Grand Avenue at E. Michigan Avenue., on the right when traveling north on N. Grand Avenue. |
| | George E. Palmer George E. Palmer (1862 - 1944) served Lansing as a truant officer, police officer and superintendent of buildings for the Lansing Public Schools. Beginning in 1900 as a truant officer, Palmer worked with students who were not . . . — — Map (db m103930) HM |
| Near South Washington Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Constructed in 1902, this castle-like building with its square tower was the Lansing station for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad until 1971. For decades passengers streamed through its doors. Here servicemen left and returned from military duty. . . . — — Map (db m104014) HM |
| On N. Capitol Avenue just south of Lapeer Street. |
| | This English Tudor house was built in 1893 for John T. Herrmann, a Lansing tailor. Herrmann immigrated to Lansing from Bernsberg, Germany in 1872 with his wife, Katharine, and two children Henry and Christian, In 1878 John Herrmann opened the . . . — — Map (db m103355) HM |
| On N. Grand Avenue at Michigan Avenue, on the right when traveling north on N. Grand Avenue. |
| | Kerns Hotel Fire
At 5:30 A.M. on December 11, 1934, the alarm outside the Kerns Hotel sounded. The 211-room four-story brick hotel that stood on this site had 215 registered guests. Before the last embers of the fire were extinguished, . . . — — Map (db m104407) HM |
| On N. Capitol Ave., on the left when traveling south. |
| | Lansing Community College was established on April 8, 1957, by the Lansing Public Schools. It opened that fall with 425 students and sixteen faculty members. It offered civil mechanical and electronics technologies as well as practical nursing and . . . — — Map (db m103351) HM |
| On South Washington Square at W. Allegan Street on South Washington Square. |
| | Lansing's First Capitol Building
Early in 1847, three commissioners were appointed to select an appropriate site for the capitol in Lansing. The contract for construction was awarded on June 3, 1847. Building materials were shipped by boat on . . . — — Map (db m99950) HM |
| On S. Martin Luther King Blvd., on the right when traveling north. |
| | Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925, lived on this site in the 1930's. His early life was marked by the violent death of his father, the Reverend Earl Little, on the Michigan Avenue streetcar tracks. Under severe economic . . . — — Map (db m104016) HM |
| On N. Washington Avenue at W. Kilborn Street on N. Washington Avenue. |
| | Michigan Education Association When completed in 1928, this building marked the Michigan Education Association's seventy-fifth anniversary. The Lansing architectural firm of Warren Holmes-Powers Company designed the Neo-Georgian structure. The . . . — — Map (db m105077) HM |
| On South Capitol Avenue at W. St. Joseph Street, on the left when traveling north on South Capitol Avenue. |
| | Side A Since its 1902 founding, the Michigan Manufacturers association has dealt with many important business issues. Beginning in 1908, the MMA organized employers to establish a system for compensating injured workers. In 1912, based on a . . . — — Map (db m103660) HM |
| Near W. Ionia Street near N. Pine, on the left. |
| | The state's professional optometry association was founded as the Michigan Optical Society in Muskegon in 1896. Benson W. Hardy, Jay W. Gould, Ernst Elmer, Nelson K. Standart, Emil H. Arnold were its first directors. In 1904 the group was . . . — — Map (db m103353) HM |
| On Kalamazoo Plaza, on the left when traveling north. |
| | On November 14,1883, seventy-seven druggists met in the State Capitol to organize the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association. Jacob Jesson of Muskegon led the effort to establish a professional association to participate in national professional . . . — — Map (db m103350) HM |
| Near South Pennsylvania Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Side 1 With the philosophy, "in union there is strength", twenty Michigan hardware retailers convened in Detroit on July 9, 1895, and organized the Michigan Retail Hardware Association. Frank S. Carlton of Calumet was elected the first . . . — — Map (db m103926) HM |
| Near South Capital Avenue at W. St. Joseph Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In December 1877 twenty-four county sheriffs met in Lansing and formed the Michigan State Sheriffs Association--committed to devising ways and means for assisting each other in the detention, arrest and conviction of criminals. In 1893 the group . . . — — Map (db m103927) HM |
| On Capitol Avenue at Michigan Avenue on Capitol Avenue. |
| | Michigan State Capitol Hailed by Michigan citizens as a proud symbol of their young and growing state, this building was dedicated on January 1, 1879. National publications praised its scandal-free construction which took six years, and its . . . — — Map (db m99951) HM |
| On W. Ionia Street at N. Pine Street, on the right when traveling west on W. Ionia Street. |
| | This Late Victorian house, designed by Darius B. Moon was built by Morgan B. Hungerford in 1880. Hungerford (1830-1903) had arrived in the area in 1858. He farmed a large tract of land in what is now west Lansing and served one term as justice of . . . — — Map (db m103352) HM |
| On Mt. Hope Road at Aurelius Road on Mt. Hope Road. |
| | Side A Mount Hope Cemetery opened as Lansing's new city cemetery in June 1874 on what was formerly the John Miller Farm. Between 1874 and 1881 the city vacated the Lansing City Cemetery, located on the site of what would become Oak Park, and . . . — — Map (db m103653) HM |
| On W. Grand River Avenue at N. Washington Avenue, on the right when traveling west on W. Grand River Avenue. Reported permanently removed. |
| | Side A On October 19, 1863, fourteen members of Lansing’s First Presbyterian Church signed the Articles of Association creating the Franklin Street Church Society. The society acquired a lot for a church from James Turner, a merchant and . . . — — Map (db m131709) HM |
| On S. Washington Avenue at Baker Street, on the right when traveling north on S. Washington Avenue. |
| | REO Motor Car Company In 1904 Ransom Eli Olds founded the REO Motor Car Company and built a factory on this site. In 1897 Olds had organized the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, the forerunner of Oldsmobile. REO soon became a leading automobile . . . — — Map (db m103922) HM |
| Near West Miller Rd., on the left when traveling west. |
| | Roswell Everett
Roswell Everett, a native of New York State, came to Michigan in 1834. In 1841 he moved to Ingham County and immediately involved himself in public affairs. Everett (1790 - 1871) is credited with naming Delhi Township, which . . . — — Map (db m103501) HM |
| | Side A In 1848, soon after the Michigan legislature relocated the state capital to Lansing Township, an Episcopal society met in the new capitol, located at Washington Avenue and Allegan Street. The society which became a parish in 1856, . . . — — Map (db m103358) HM |
| | The State Bar of Michigan was established by the legislature in 1935 as an organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice and the delivery of legal services. Every lawyer licensed to practice in Michigan is required to be a . . . — — Map (db m99958) HM |
| Near E. Shiawassee Street. |
| | The Grand River and its valley were formed by the melting of the continental glacier that retreated from this area some 12,000 years ago. Known by Chippewa Indians as Washtanong (further country) and by the French as le Riviere Grand, the Grand is . . . — — Map (db m104018) HM |
| On S. Washington Ave., on the right when traveling north. |
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The Strand On April 21 1921, this building opened as the Strand Theater and Arcade. The 2000-seat theater boasted one of the largest vaudeville stages in the state and a screen for viewing motion pictures. The building was the pride of . . . — — Map (db m103633) HM |
| | Town of Michigan )
In 1847, required by Michigan's 1835 constitution to choose a permanent capital site within the first decade of statehood, the legislature voted to move the capital from Detroit. Convinced that the governmental seat should be . . . — — Map (db m92851) HM |
| On West Holmes Rd. at Averill Dr., on the right when traveling west on West Holmes Rd.. |
| | Side 1
Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church of Lansing is the oldest black church in the city. Its first services were held in a building on North Washington Avenue. The church formally organized by the Reverend Mr. Henderson of . . . — — Map (db m103654) HM |
| | Side A
James Turner, a Lansing pioneer, originally owned this property. A native of New York, Turner came to Lansing in 1847 from nearby Mason, where he was a merchant. He immediately opened a general store in the Seymour House, the . . . — — Map (db m103655) HM |
| On North Verlinden Ave. at Inverness Ave,, on the right when traveling north on North Verlinden Ave.. |
| | Wolverine Boys' State: The American Legion
On November 28, 1937, the board of directors of The American Legion established Wolverine Boys' State. American Legion departments in other states, including Ohio and Indiana, had existing programs. . . . — — Map (db m104318) HM |
| On Townsend Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Darius B. Moon, prominent turn-of-the century Lansing architect, designed this Queen
Anne house in 1896 for Chester E. Woodbury, founder of the Lansing Capitol Savings
and Loan Association. The structure’s last residential owner was William G. . . . — — Map (db m103322) HM |
| On Okemos Road at Hamilton Road, on the right when traveling north on Okemos Road. |
| | Chief Okemos
Okemos was born in Shiawassee County around 1775. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Sandusky during the War of 1812 and won the respect of the Saginaw Chippewa people. Chief Okemos later signed several treaties on behalf . . . — — Map (db m84683) HM |
| On State Highway 43 0.1 miles east of South Putnam Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | (Side 1)
Williamston grew where two Native American trails crossed. In 1834, settlers Hiram and Joseph Putnam built the north-south road that became Putnam Street. Construction of the Grand River Turnpike from Detroit to Grand Rapids in . . . — — Map (db m84507) HM |
| On High Street at North Cedar Street, on the right on High Street. |
| | (Side 1)
Beginning in the 1850s, Williamston Catholics worshipped with visiting priests. They often traveled ten miles by carriage or horseback on rutted, muddy roads to Saint Patrick Church in Woodhull (present-day Shaftsburg) to worship . . . — — Map (db m84588) HM |
| On State Highway 43 at Meridian Road, on the right when traveling west on State Highway 43. |
| | The old Grand River Indian Trail, now US-16, became a plank road in 1848. A toll gate and Red Bridge Post Office were located here. Nearby were homes of John Mullett, pioneer surveyor, and John Forester, explorer, north Michigan mine pioneer. . . . — — Map (db m84681) HM |
| On East Main Street at Hanover Street, on the left when traveling east on East Main Street. |
| | Alvah N. Belding erected this library in 1917/18 as a memorial to his parents, Hiram and Mary Wilson Belding. Alvah and his brother Hiram began peddling silk around Belding (then Patterson's Mills) in 1858. With the help of their brother Milo they . . . — — Map (db m55243) HM |
| On Hanover Street at East Main Street, on the right when traveling north on Hanover Street. |
| | Built in 1906, the Belrockton is the last remaining boardinghouse of the three provided by the Belding Brothers and Company for its single female workers. A major silk manufacturer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the company . . . — — Map (db m55242) HM |
| On Depot Street at North Bridge Street, on the right when traveling west on Depot Street. |
| | Completed in 1923 for the Pere Marquette Railway, this depot is typical of the railroad stations that served Michigan towns during the early decades of the twentieth century. The depot replaced an earlier, wood frame station built during the 1880s . . . — — Map (db m55241) HM |
| On North Whites Bridge Road 1 mile north of Richmond Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | This picturesque covered bridge, one of the last of its kind in Michigan, was built in 1867 by Jared N. Brazee and J.N. Walker, builders of several covered bridges in this area. The name of the bridge derives from the White family, a prominent . . . — — Map (db m55246) HM |
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