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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 Joel S., August 4, 2011
Veterans Memorial Peace Grove & Central Michigan University Marker
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On East Campus Drive 0.3 miles south of East Broomfield Street, on the left when traveling south. |
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Privately organized by citizens of Mt. Pleasant in 1892, Central became Michigan's second state-supported normal school in 1895. This met a long-felt need for a state school in this region. At first the college was designed to prepare rural and . . . — — Map (db m45876) HM |
| On Chippewa Street at Franklin Street, on the right when traveling west on Chippewa Street. |
| | Built about 1865 this oldest remaining house in Mt. Pleasant was purchased by Wilkinson Doughty in 1869. An early hardware and dry goods merchant, Doughty was a town trustee, and a founder of Central Michigan Normal School, now Central Michigan . . . — — Map (db m91750) HM |
| On South Bamber Road near O'Connor Drive, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In the 1850s, the Methodist Episcopal (Indian) Church established the Bradley Mission School and Indian Cemetery in this area. The cemetery served the mission until the late 1860s. Only a few grave markers are visible and it is not known how many . . . — — Map (db m91737) HM |
| On Mosher Street at North Main Street, on the right when traveling west on Mosher Street. |
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Isabella County Seat
The state legislature organized Isabella County on February 11, 1859. A commission appointed by the governor established the county seat as Isabella Centre. To encourage settlement on land he owned in Isabella . . . — — Map (db m91762) HM |
| On East Michigan Street near South Franklin Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | In 1889, Sacred Heart Academy was organized as a school for St. Charles Church, which was established in 1872. That year a new church was built here and the parish was renamed Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Father John J. Crowley moved the old church . . . — — Map (db m91751) HM |
| On West Maple Street at South Washington Street, on the right when traveling west on West Maple Street. |
| | A mission was organized in Mount Pleasant in 1876, and in 1882 the present building was begun. Local businessman William N. Brown contributed most of the building funds, and the bricks and lumber were made in his plants. The interior design of St. . . . — — Map (db m91749) HM |
| On State Highway 50 at Marshall Street, on the right when traveling south on State Highway 50. |
| | Thirteen lay members founded the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn in 1838. The Reverend C.W. Gurney became the church's first installed pastor in 1841. Dedicatory services for the church were held on October 7, 1845. Built with hand-hewn beams . . . — — Map (db m84885) HM |
| On State Highway 50 at Chicago Street, on the left when traveling south on State Highway 50. |
| | This village was founded by the Rev. Calvin Swain, who filed the first land claim on June 16, 1832. Elder Swain, who had been a chaplain in the War of 1812, was a Baptist minister and the postmaster in Adamsville, New York, before coming to Michigan . . . — — Map (db m84886) HM |
| | Concord Universalists
(Side 1)
After migrating from the East, primarily New York State, thirteen families brought their faith to Concord and formed a Universalist Society in 1854. Society members erected this building in 1866 and . . . — — Map (db m78876) HM |
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In 1843 New York natives Alfred and Ruth Paddock migrated to Concord Township. Within two years they erected this Greek Revival house, reminiscent of those in their home state. A prominent merchant, Alfred Paddock (1805-1870) owned . . . — — Map (db m78877) HM |
| On East Michigan Avenue at Drake Street, on the left when traveling east on East Michigan Avenue. |
| | (side 1)
Grass Lake
The first settlers arrived in Grass Lake in 1829. Two years later a post office, the second in Jackson County, opened at the settlement. In 1832 Grass Lake Township was created; the current boundaries were . . . — — Map (db m55223) HM |
| On Interstate 94 0.6 miles west of Mount Hope Road (exit 150), on the right when traveling west. |
| | Pioneers in the 1830's by the tens of thousands traveled west over the Territorial Road (roughly parallel to I-94). Many of them stopped in the Jackson area to take up land. Jackson County was named after Andrew Jackson and organized in 1832. The . . . — — Map (db m86567) HM |
| On Main Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | This triple-brick Victorian-style structure, built in 1886 by Newton Sears and Milford Tanner, exemplifies small town midwestern general stores of the 1880s. In 1891, Ernest Wellman and his mother bought out Tanner's interest. The following year, . . . — — Map (db m88685) HM |
| On Greenwood, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Austin Blair began his political career in Eaton Rapids, where he was elected Eaton County clerk in 1842. As a member of the Michigan House of Representatives (1846-1849), he served in the Judiciary Committee and was a leading supporter or the 1846 . . . — — Map (db m54275) HM |
| On Wildwood, on the right when traveling west. |
| | During the the American Civil War (1861-1865) one of Michigan's military headquarters was In Jackson. Camp Blair was planned 1863 as a draft rendezvous point and as a center for convalescing troops. Named for incumbent governor Austin Blair, a . . . — — Map (db m54315) HM |
| On 4th Street at Horton Road, on the right when traveling north on 4th Street. |
| | In 1855 Abraham Wing purchased this farm for his widowed daughter, Mary. Within a year she married Dwight Merriman, and under their guidance, “Hillside” became a model farm, with over 600 acres of orchards and cultivated fields. In 1881 . . . — — Map (db m63843) HM |
| On South Jackson Street at West Cortland Street, on the right when traveling north on South Jackson Street. |
| | In 1834 thirteen Jackson pioneers established the Barry-Jackson Baptist Church in Sandstone Township. Five years later the Reverend David Hendee and seventeen members of that church formed the First Baptist Church in Jackson. Meetings were held in . . . — — Map (db m54348) HM |
| On North Jackson Street south of West Pearl Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This monumental Romanesque Revival church was erected in 1859 according to plans by architect Horatio N. White of Syracuse, New York. It is this congregation's third church. In 1871 the building was raised eight feet to accommodate lower-level . . . — — Map (db m54349) HM |
| On West Michigan Avenue at South Blackstone Street, on the right when traveling east on West Michigan Avenue. |
| | The origins of the First United Methodist Church can be traced to 1831 when preacher Elijah Pilcher arrived in “Jacksonburgh” to serve the town's growing Methodist community. Services were held around town until a small church was . . . — — Map (db m54374) HM |
| On North Mechanic Street north of Armory Court, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This was the original site of Michigan's first state prison, approved by the legislature in 1838. A temporary wooden prison, enclosed by a fence of tamarack poles, was built on sixty acres donated for that purpose here. In 1839 the first 35 . . . — — Map (db m54645) HM |
| On West Michigan Avenue at South Jackson Street, on the left when traveling west on West Michigan Avenue. |
| | (side a)
Horace Ismon
This building was erected for Jackson dry goods merchant Horace Ismon in 1853. Ismon had begun his mercantile career in Paw Paw during the 1840s. Although established in Jackson, he continued his Paw Paw . . . — — Map (db m54647) HM |
| On North Jackson Street at West Michigan Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Jackson Street. |
| | On March 30, 1830, a commission appointed to choose Jackson County's seat of government reported: "A territorial road, call the St. Joseph's road, was last winter laid.... Where this road crosses the Grand river... a flourishing village is . . . — — Map (db m54313) HM |
| On McCain Rd at Ganton Dr, on the right when traveling west on McCain Rd. |
| | This typical one-room schoolhouse was built for School District No. 2 of Summit Township in the 1880s. Named for a school board member, McCain School is the second schoolhouse erected on this site. The first was built in the early 1850s shortly . . . — — Map (db m88676) HM |
| On North Francis Street at East Ganson Street, on the left when traveling south on North Francis Street. |
| | Constructed in 1857, St. John's is the oldest Catholic Church in Jackson and was the only church of this denomination in this city until 1901. Bishop Peter Paul Lefevre laid the cornerstone for this structure in 1856. St. John's began as a mission . . . — — Map (db m55417) HM |
| On South Mechanic Street at East Wesley Street, on the right when traveling north on South Mechanic Street. |
| | In 1880 Bishop Casper Henry Borgess of the Detroit Diocese approved the establishment of a second Catholic parish in the city of Jackson. The cornerstone ceremony for the parish church was held July 4, 1881. The present limestone Romanesque . . . — — Map (db m55220) HM |
| On South Jackson Street at West Washington Street (U.S. 127), on the left when traveling south on South Jackson Street. |
| | On December 8, 1838, the founders of St. Paul's Parish met and began the task of drafting the Articles of Organization for a “new Protestant society.” The Parish of St. Paul's Church was officially established with the signing by . . . — — Map (db m54646) HM |
| On W. Franklin Street at Second Street, on the right when traveling west on W. Franklin Street. |
| | On July 6, 1854, a state convention of anti-slavery men was held in Jackson to found a new political party. Uncle Tom's Cabin had been published two years earlier, causing increased resentment against slavery, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of May, . . . — — Map (db m55195) HM |
| Near Meridian Road 0.8 miles north of N. Territorial Rd., on the left when traveling north. |
| | Side 1
The 1875 Land Ordinance organized the system of surveying land in regular square six-mile units called townships and square one-mile subunits called sections. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin set the Michigan Meridian (north-south . . . — — Map (db m89644) HM |
| On Teft Rd, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Ed Cross and his wife, Edith, built this house, barn and granary in 1919. As a young man Cross (1863 - 1938) spent several years working as a logger in Mackinac County, eventually returning to Spring Arbor. During the last fifty years of his life he . . . — — Map (db m88675) HM |
| On E.P.Hart Circle (State Highway M60), on the right when traveling west. |
| | Three Michigan institutions of higher education have had their roots here. The predecessor of Albion College, the Spring Arbor Seminary was chartered in 1835. Michigan Central College, founded in 1844, was located here until its removal in 1855 when . . . — — Map (db m88681) HM |
| On Hammond Road at Cross Road, on the right when traveling east on Hammond Road. |
| | Huron Potawatomi Village
As early as 1825 large numbers of Potawatomi encamped at this location. One of the most prominent Huron Potatwatomi located here was Wabkezhik (Whapcazeek), who was wounded during the 1811 Battle of Tippicanoe Creek . . . — — Map (db m84726) HM |
| Near Augusta Drive 0.5 miles west of G Ave. E, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Barn Theatre, originally constructed in 1943 by Robert M. Cook as a dairy barn, is the home of Michigan's oldest resident summer stock theatre. Such theatres use a group of actors who perform consecutive productions of different shows. Founded . . . — — Map (db m44945) HM |
| On E. Maple Street east of Sheldon Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | In 1835, New York native Daniel B. Eldred built this house, which is believed to be the earliest frame dwelling in Climax. Eldred's house, with its delicate Federal entrance, was the site of the first Climax Township meeting in 1838. Eldred first . . . — — Map (db m68801) HM |
| Near Douglas Avenue north of W. D Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
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(Side One)
In 1843 the Reverends Mason Knappen and Ova Hoyt organized the Cooper Congregational Church with families from New York and Vermont. Church founders included Laura Blanchard, John and Betsy Borden, Mace, Nancy and John Borden, . . . — — Map (db m68817) HM |
| On W. E Avenue 0.3 miles west of N. Westnedge Avenue, on the left when traveling west. |
| | William Smith DeLano (1819-1901) was a southwestern Michigan pioneer settler. He built this modest Greek Revival style house in 1858. A native of western New York State, DeLano came to the area with an uncle in 1837. He first worked clearing farms . . . — — Map (db m68820) HM |
| On Church Street at W. Battle Creek Street, on the right when traveling south on Church Street. |
| | This congregation has held services continually since 1832. In 1852 it was formally organized as an offshoot of the First Presbyterian Church of nearby Comstock. Later that year the church's name was changed to the First Congregational Church. It . . . — — Map (db m68813) HM |
| Near Interstate 94 at milepost 84, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Kalamazoo is an Indian word said to mean "boiling water." Originally it was applied to the river that flows northwesterly to Lake Michigan. A trickle of settlers in the late 1820's became a torrent in the 1830's as the region's fertile prairies, oak . . . — — Map (db m68803) HM |
| On S. Burdick Street near W. Cedar Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | The only resident of Kalamazoo to be elected governor of Michigan during its first 150 years, Epaphroditus Ransom lived and farmed on this site. Born in Massachusetts in 1796, Ransom came to Michigan in 1834. An attorney, he soon became the area’s . . . — — Map (db m74527) HM |
| On W. Michigan Avenue at S. Church Street, on the right when traveling east on W. Michigan Avenue. |
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(Side One)
Constructed in 1853, this is the oldest church building in Kalamazoo. Titus Bronson, the city’s founder, donated this site on Church Square. The Baptist faith reached the Kalamazoo River Valley in 1826 when missionary Leonard . . . — — Map (db m74522) HM |
| On S. Park Street (State Highway 331) north of W. South Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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(Side One)
In 1830 the Reverend James T. Robe, a young Methodist circuit rider, delivered the first sermon in the village of Bronson, later Kalamazoo, at the home of the town’s founder, Titus Bronson. After his appointment to the . . . — — Map (db m74489) HM |
| Near S. Park Street (State Highway 331) north of W. Lovell Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | This building, completed in 1879, is the first in the nation erected for the use of a women’s club. The Ladies’ Library Association, organized in January, 1852, grew out of a reading club started in 1844. It was the first women’s club in Michigan . . . — — Map (db m74487) HM |
| On Parkview Avenue at 11th Street, on the right when traveling east on Parkview Avenue. |
| | Among the earliest pioneers of Oshtemo Township was a Black family, that of Enoch and Deborah Harris. Born in the East in the late 1700's, they settled in the Ohio wilderness about 1810. Moving westward with the advancing frontier, they claimed land . . . — — Map (db m23059) HM |
| On S. Park Street (State Highway 331) at Balch Street, on the right when traveling north on S. Park Street. |
| | A Scotsman, named Taylor, grew the first celery in Kalamazoo in 1856. Diners at the Burdick Hotel regarded it with curiosity. Cornelius De Bruyn, a gardener, who came here from The Netherlands in 1866, developed the modern type of celery from the . . . — — Map (db m74486) HM |
| On S. Westnedge Avenue (State Highway 331) at W. Walnut Street, on the left when traveling south on S. Westnedge Avenue. |
| | The first classroom building for the Michigan and Huron Institute, now Kalamazoo College, was erected on this site between June and September of 1836. The charter bill for the school had been introduced in the Michigan Territorial Legislative . . . — — Map (db m74525) HM |
| On S. Burdick Street at E. Lovell Street, on the right when traveling north on S. Burdick Street. |
| | Founded in 1833 as the weekly Michigan Statesman and St. Joseph Chronicle, this newspaper, edited by Henry Gilbert, followed the United States Land Office when it moved from White Pigeon to Kalamazoo in 1835. It first appeared as the . . . — — Map (db m74528) HM |
| On South Westnedge Avenue (State Highway 331) at West Vine Street, on the right when traveling south on South Westnedge Avenue. |
| | Near here, in 1858, Kalamazoo's first high school was opened. Fifteen years later the right of the school board to levy taxes to support a high school was challenged. A unanimous decision of the Michigan Supreme Court, rendered by Justice Thomas M. . . . — — Map (db m43675) HM |
| Near West South Street at South Park Street (Michigan Highway 331), on the left when traveling east. |
| | On August 27, 1856, here in this park, Abraham Lincoln, then an obscure lawyer, spoke to a rally for John Frémont, the Republican presidential nominee. This was the only time that Lincoln addressed an audience in Michigan. The event was . . . — — Map (db m26760) HM |
| Near S. Westnedge Avenue (State Highway 331) at Park Place, on the right when traveling south. |
| | South Westnedge Street Park is actually Kalamazoo’s first cemetery. The pioneer leader, Cyren Burdick, and his wife Mary Ann in 1833 donated this land as a common burial ground. From this time until 1862 hundreds of pioneer settlers were buried here . . . — — Map (db m74526) HM |
| On W. South Street west of S. Westnedge Avenue (Michigan Highway 331), on the right when traveling west. |
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(Side One)
This tree-lined neighborhood, today nestled between the business district and college campuses, recalls a quiet but prosperous Kalamazoo at the turn of the century. The street was platted in 1841. Its beautifully preserved . . . — — Map (db m74523) HM |
| On West Kalamazoo Avenue (State Highway 43) at Elm Street, on the right when traveling west on West Kalamazoo Avenue. |
| | Wealthy merchants and businessmen, seeking an escape from the hurried life of downtown living, built this prosperous neighborhood in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Movement to the suburbs gained in popularity after the 1850s, but lack of . . . — — Map (db m64116) HM |
| Near U.S. 131 at milepost 43, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Kalamazoo is an Indian word said to mean "boiling water." Originally it was applied to the river that flows northwesterly to Lake Michigan. A trickle of settlers in the late 1820's became a torrent in the 1830's as the region's fertile prairies, oak . . . — — Map (db m68804) HM |
| On Park Street west of N. 32nd Street (Michigan Highway 43), on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Ladies Library Association raised the funds to build this Classical Revival style building, which was completed in 1910. After serving as a private library for thirty-eight years, it was sold first to the Richland Rural Agricultural School . . . — — Map (db m68821) HM |
| On Park Street west of N. 32nd Street (Michigan Highway 43), on the right when traveling west. |
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(Side One)
Settlers from Hudson, Ohio, came to the Richland area (then known as Gull Prairie) in 1830. A year later, a Presbyterian congregation was organized. Established under the 1801 Plan of Union adopted by the Presbyterians and . . . — — Map (db m122219) HM |
| On W. Maple Street west of S. Main Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Fanny M. Bair, a member of one of Vicksburg's pioneer families, built this library and presented it to the Ladies Library Association on November 21, 1902. Charles A. Fairchild of Kalamazoo designed the building with "modern conveniences" like . . . — — Map (db m68793) HM |
| On W. Prairie Street at S. Michigan Avenue, on the left when traveling west on W. Prairie Street. |
| | In 1831, John Vickers built a brush dam over the eight-foot waterfall on Portage Creek and erected a log grist mill. The mill is believed to have been the first mill in Kalamazoo County. The dam created a pond that supplied water power to the mill, . . . — — Map (db m68794) HM |
| | Side A The first Central High School opened in a stone building three blocks to the west. The state legislature instituted high school grading in 1859, and the first Central High School graduation was held in 1862. Two successively larger . . . — — Map (db m99990) HM |
| | Side A Central Reformed Church was formed on April 23, 1918, by the merger of the first two Reformed churches in the Grand Rapids area: the First Reformed, an English-speaking church organized in 1840; and the Second Reformed, a . . . — — Map (db m99981) HM |
| | Side A On September 18, 1836, twenty-two persons, under the direction of the Reverend Silas Woodbury of Kalamazoo, founded one of the first Protestant congregations in Grand Rapids. Initially a Presbyterian parish, the church was reorganized . . . — — Map (db m99986) HM |
| | In 1870, six women who had been meeting for a year to study history, organized Grand Rapids' first Ladies Literary Association. The group was also instrumental in opening the first public library in the city that same year. In 1882 the association . . . — — Map (db m99985) HM |
| | Built between 1865 and 1870 by James and Hannah Gallup, this Victorian style villa is one of the oldest homes in the Heritage Hill Historic District. Gallup and his family lived here until 1896. The house was later owned by several prominent Grand . . . — — Map (db m99991) HM |
| | Side A Designed by local architect William G. Robinson, this castle-like edifice was constructed in 1884-86 for Colonel E. Crofton Fox and his brother Charles. Built of granite block imported from Scotland, this house is a fine example of . . . — — Map (db m99984) HM |
| | This elegant and perfectly preserved Victorian mansion was built for Carl G. A. Voigt in 1895. Voigt came to Grand Rapids in 1870 and ran a mill and dry goods store with W. G. Herpolsheimer. In 1902, when the partnership ended, Voigt took over the . . . — — Map (db m99983) HM |
| On Lincoln Lake Avenue NE at 3 Mile Road NE, on the right when traveling north on Lincoln Lake Avenue NE. |
| | (side 1)
In the early 1830s the settlement known as Alton grew up in this vicinity. A log schoolhouse, the first in the township, was built on this corner in 1839. In 1842, Gideon Hendricks and Newcomb Godfrey organized the Christian Church . . . — — Map (db m55251) HM |
| On Covered Bridge Road NE at Beckwith Drive NE, on the left when traveling east on Covered Bridge Road NE. |
| | John W. and Silas S. Fallas settled here in 1837, founding a village which soon boasted a chair factory, sawmill, and gristmill. About 1840 the first of several wooden bridges was placed across the Flat River, but all succumbed in a short time to . . . — — Map (db m55253) HM |
| On Covered Bridge Road NE north of Montcalm Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | (side 1)
Fallasburg was settled in 1837 by two brothers from Tompkins County, New York. In 1839, John Wesley Fallas purchased the northwest quarter of section 24 and laid plans for a village. His brother, Silas S., also purchased land at . . . — — Map (db m55255) HM |
| On Covered Bridge Road NE at Whinnery Street NE, on the left when traveling north on Covered Bridge Road NE. |
| | (side 1)
John Wesley Fallas House
John Wesley Fallas built this house in 1842 in the village which bears his family name. Fallas platted the village on land he purchased from the U.S. government in 1839. That year, after a bridge . . . — — Map (db m55254) HM |
| On West Main Street SE (State Highway 21) at North Hudson Street SE, on the left when traveling east on West Main Street SE. |
| | In 1873 Robert W. Graham designed and built this Italianate structure as a two-family residence. A native of England, Graham settled in Lowell in 1858. Here he worked as a brick mason, a farmer and a merchant. Graham's son Ernest, an architect, . . . — — Map (db m55252) HM |
| On State Highway 26 at South Street, on the right when traveling south on State Highway 26. |
| | Side 1
Built by the Eagle Harbor Mining Company in 1845, Eagle Harbor House opened to boarders and travelers in 1846, the beginning of the Keweenaw copper rush. It is the last remaining log building of the first four in Eagle Harbor. In . . . — — Map (db m106232) HM |
| On 4th Street at Sand Dunes Drive (State Highway 26), on the right when traveling west on 4th Street. |
| | (side one) Douglass Houghton, Michigan’s first State Geologist, was born in Troy, New York, on September 21, 1809. He studied under Amos Eaton at the Van Renssaeler Polytechnic School in Troy. In 1828 he graduated and became a professor of . . . — — Map (db m152744) HM |
| On State Highway 26 at 4th Street on State Highway 26. |
| | Lake Shore Drive Bridge. This bridge, completed in 1915, was one of two bridges erected simultaneously by the Michigan State Highway Department across the Eagle River. The second was located in nearby Phoenix. Prior to 1915 a Pratt through truss . . . — — Map (db m106210) HM |
| On East Tenth Street at Michigan Avenue (State Highway 37), on the right when traveling west on East Tenth Street. |
| | This county was originally set off in 1840 and first named Aishcum after a well-known Potawatomi chief. In 1843 the name was changed to Lake. For three decades it was attached to neighboring counties until 1871 when settlement was sufficient to . . . — — Map (db m106842) HM |
| On Martin Luther King Avenue 0.1 miles west of Northrup Road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | (side one)
The Island
The Island, once accessible only by footbridges, was the center of life at Idlewild from the 1910s into the 1960s. Early advertisements for the resort described Island Park as having a beautiful bathing . . . — — Map (db m55402) HM |
| On East St. Clair Street east of Spring Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Frederick and Mary Currier built this house around 1854, inspired by Orson Fowler's A Home for All, which promoted the octagon form as a healthy place to live. The tall windows, which admit light and air, and the five octagonal rooms reflect . . . — — Map (db m154962) HM |
| On West St. Clair Street at Cherry Street, on the left when traveling west on West St. Clair Street. |
| | Henry Stephens (1823-1886), a native of Dublin, Ireland, was a merchant, lumberman and financier. One of Almont's earliest settlers, Stephens established the first mercantile business here. In 1845 he built a sawmill north of Lapeer. When the pine . . . — — Map (db m154947) HM |
| On First Street south of Pine Street (Route 44), on the left when traveling south. |
| | In the nineteenth century, railroads provided the prime transportation link between small villages and the rest of the country. The first Columbiaville depot was built near this site in 1872. In 1893 William Peter (1824-1899) replaced that structure . . . — — Map (db m101541) HM |
| On First Street south of Pine Street (Route 44). |
| | Dr. Richardson practiced Osteopathic family medicine and surgery in Lapeer and Genesee counties for 33 years. He was an ardent conservationist. He arranged for the planting of a half a million trees in this area. He was a founding member of . . . — — Map (db m101545) HM |
| On Second Street (County Route 44) at Water Street, on the right when traveling south on Second Street. |
| | This structure, completed in 1896, was the home of William Peter (1824-1899). Peter, a prominent Columbiaville businessman, was a rags-to-riches character. Around 1847 he came to the area from Germany via New York state, a penniless immigrant. . . . — — Map (db m101547) HM |
| On Pine Street (County Route 44) at Second Street (Route 44) when traveling east on Pine Street. |
| | This handsome Romanesque structure was completed in 1897 for the Methodist Protestant Church of Columbiaville. Local Methodists, with the assistance of circuit riders, had organized the church some forty years earlier. In 1865 the congregation . . . — — Map (db m101546) HM |
| On Main Street west of Mill Road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Side 1
The area now known as Dryden was settled in 1834. By 1880 it was a hamlet of about 300 people. A marketing center surrounded by rich farm land, it turned to the railroad to increase its prosperity. Its citizens, spurred by the local . . . — — Map (db m109865) HM |
| On Main Street near Mill Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | The Ladies Library Association was established in 1871 to provide reading material at a small cost to the community. In the beginning the association only allowed married women to be members and charged an annual fee of one dollar. The women of the . . . — — Map (db m109815) HM |
| On West Nepessing Street at North Court Street, on the right when traveling east on West Nepessing Street. |
| | Set off by Gov. Cass in 1822, this county took its name from the French La Pierre, a translation of the Indian name for the Flint River. Settlers began to arrive in 1828. The county seat, founded in 1831, was also named Lapeer. Organization . . . — — Map (db m101532) HM |
| On West Nepessing Street at North Washington Street, on the right when traveling east on West Nepessing Street. |
| | Founded in 1859, the Lapeer Ladies Library Association gathered the community's first collection of books for lending. The popularity of the collection led the Carnegie Foundation to offer $10,000 to build a public library in 1916. In part through . . . — — Map (db m101536) HM |
| On North Main Street (State Highway 24) at State Street on North Main Street. |
| | Lapeer lumberman Columbus Tuttle and his second wife, Linda, had this Queen Anne house built around 1890. Tuttle's planing mill provided lumber for the county's earliest homes and businesses. After lumbering declined during the 1880s, Tuttle's mills . . . — — Map (db m101537) HM |
| On East Kolarik Road (County Route 637) at North Jelinek Road, on the right when traveling east on East Kolarik Road. |
| | St. Wenceslaus Church and Cemetery
In the 1860s and 1870s settlers from Bohemia (now part of Czechoslovakia) came to this area and worked at the Leland Lake Superior Iron Foundry and the Gill sawmill. Catholics attended mass at the Holy Trinity . . . — — Map (db m78883) HM |
| On W. River St west of Main Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | This commercial fishing district has provided a livelihood for residents of the town for over a century. Fishermen reached the fishing grounds of Lake Michigan by way of the Leland River (Carp River) using small sailboats until the introduction of . . . — — Map (db m76057) HM |
| Near N Lighthouse Point Rd, north of Catyhead Bay Drive. |
| | Grand Traverse Lighthouse Built in 1858 — — Map (db m76060) HM |
| On Greenleaf Road 0.2 miles east of U.S. 127, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Prior Foster, an Ohio Negro, began this school "in the woods" in 1844 and four years later it was incorporated. Designed to serve "colored people and others," the Institute taught a full range of subjects and was one of the nation's first integrated . . . — — Map (db m34694) HM |
| On South Madison Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Chartered on March 28, 1859, Adrian College traces its origins back to a Wesleyan Methodist theological institute founded at Leoni, Michigan in 1845. This institution later became Michigan Union College. Strongly antislavery in its sentiments, the . . . — — Map (db m102933) HM |
| On East Church Street (State Highway 52). |
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Adrian Fire Department
Adrian founded its fire department in 1841. By 1851, it had 102 male volunteers, who served in two companies. They pulled hand pumpers and hose carts to fires, using water from city-built reservoirs. In 1867, the city . . . — — Map (db m102861) HM |
| On North Adrian Highway (State Highway 52) at West Valley Road, on the left when traveling north on North Adrian Highway. |
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Adrian Monthly Meetinghouse
Quakers from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania settled in southeastern Michigan in the early nineteenth century. In June 1831 Adrian Quakers held their first meeting in the home of Darius Comstock. In 1834 . . . — — Map (db m102686) HM |
| On South Madison Street at Williams Street, on the left when traveling north on South Madison Street. |
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Camp Williams
At the outbreak of the Civil War in early 1861, the trustees of Adrian College offered the use of campus buildings and grounds to the Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry for training. This became known as Camp Williams. The . . . — — Map (db m102927) HM |
| On North Main Street (State Highway 52) at West Front Street, on the right when traveling south on North Main Street. |
| | Lenawee County was first settled in 1824 at Tecumseh, which the Territorial Legislature subsequently made the county seat. Pioneers, mostly from upper New York State, then established Blissfield and Adrian, the later called Logan. The largest Indian . . . — — Map (db m102761) HM |
| On North Broad Street (State Highway 52) near State Highway 52, on the right when traveling north. |
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Governor Charles M. Croswell
Charles Miller Croswell (1825-1886) was born in New York. A lawyer and civic leader, he was the secretary of the Republican Party's founding convention in Jackson. He also drafted Michigan's act ratifying the . . . — — Map (db m102862) HM |
| On North Dean Street at East Hunt Street, on the right when traveling north on North Dean Street. |
| | The Agricultural Society of Lenawee County organized and held its first fair in 1839, making it one of Michigans oldest county fairs. The fair originally took place in downtown Adrian between River Street and the River Raisin. In 1879 the grandstand . . . — — Map (db m102733) HM |
| On East Siena Heights Drive at North Locust Street, on the left when traveling east on East Siena Heights Drive. |
| | With its parklike setting, wooded pathways and variety of monuments, Oakwood Cemetery is an outstanding Victorian Era cemetery. Local citizens, including Adrian founder Addison Comstock, created Oakwood Cemetery in 1848. Originally 22 acres, by 1968 . . . — — Map (db m102687) HM |
| On North Broad Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | In 1866 Laura Smith Haviland, a former abolitionist, persuaded several African Americans in Washington, DC. to migrate to Adrian. Three years later the Reverend A. I. J. Jackson led the settlers in founding the Second Baptist Church. The . . . — — Map (db m102762) HM |
| On South Locust Street at East Church Street, on the right when traveling north on South Locust Street. |
| | The Reverend William Hatterstaedt helped organize St. John's Lutheran Church in 1847. Until their first church was completed in 1849, the original congregation, fourteen German families, met in a church that belonged to the Episcopalians. Services . . . — — Map (db m102923) HM |
| On East Maple Avenue at Ormsby Street, on the left when traveling east on East Maple Avenue. |
| | German immigrants desiring to practice Catholicism in their native language founded St. Joseph's parish in 1863. Father John G. Ehrenstrasser became the first pastor in 1865. This handsome brick and stone church, the second house of worship for this . . . — — Map (db m102734) HM |
| On Main Street at Worth Street on Main Street. |
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The first railroad operated west of the Alleghenies, the Erie and Kalamazoo, was chartered on April 22, 1833 to connect Port Lawrence (later named Toledo) with the Kalamazoo River via Adrian. A horse-drawn car made . . . — — Map (db m27807) HM |
| On Beagle Road east of North Main Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | [Front side of Marker]:Erie and Kalamazoo Rail Road
The first railway in the Northwest Territory, the Erie and Kalamazoo Rail Road linked the east coast with the Michigan Territory and points westward. The E&K was chartered on April . . . — — Map (db m27804) HM |
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