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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 Seewald, April 9, 2017
Oakwood Cemetery Entrance and Marker
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| 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. |
| | [Front Side of Marker]
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 |
| 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 m84920) HM |
| On Old Monroe Pike 0.1 miles north of Michigan Highway 50, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The Reverend William Narcissus Lyster founded St. Michael and All Angels Church in 1843. One of only four Episcopal clergy in Michigan at the time, Lyster established several churches in the area. In 1855 the Right Reverend Samuel A. McCoskry, the . . . — — Map (db m88402) HM |
| On East Michigan Avenue (U.S. 12), on the left when traveling east. |
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Clinton
Early settlers who came here from New York via the Erie Canal named this community in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the governor of their native state. First settled in 1829, Clinton became an important center of trade . . . — — Map (db m104925) HM |
| On West Michigan Avenue (U.S. 12) near South River Street. |
| | The Clinton Woolen Mill was a vital part of the economy of this area for over 90 years. Clinton's original mill was completed in 1867 at a cost of $95,000. Fire destroyed that structure in 1886. In less than a year, the mill was back in operation in . . . — — Map (db m102577) HM |
| On Tecumseh Road at East Franklin Street, on the left when traveling south on Tecumseh Road. |
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Jira Payne House
This Greek Revival house was built around 1840 by Jira Payne, owner of the Atlas sawmill. The twin fluted Ionic columns, flanked by square Doric piers, were hand hewn from trees on this property. Emil Lorch, . . . — — Map (db m104924) HM |
| Near Coman Street at Edgar Street. |
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Riverside Mortuary Chapel
This chapel, completed in 1913, embodies the dream of Cemetery Superintendent George Kies, the design of Clinton-born architect Wirt Rowland, and the artistry of the mason, a "Mr. Uhr" of Manchester. It . . . — — Map (db m104868) HM |
| On East Church Street 0.1 miles east of Tecumseh Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | In 1835, under the leadership of the Reverend William N. Lyster, this church was founded as St. Patrick's Episcopal Church. The Reverend Lyster had organized a church in nearby Tecumseh in 1833, and this church was a mission of that pioneer parish . . . — — Map (db m102573) HM |
| On Palmyra Road at Rouget Road, on the right when traveling north on Palmyra Road. |
| | Sixteen persons from Presbyterian congregations in Tecumseh, Blissfield and Adrian founded this church in 1836. The following year the Reverend John Walker became their minister. They held services in a schoolhouse on the west side of the River . . . — — Map (db m132040) HM |
| On North Evans Street at Macon Highway, on the right when traveling north on North Evans Street. |
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Side 1
Al Meyers, a native of Allenhurst, New Jersey, settled in this area in 1939, after accepting a government contract to manufacture planes for pilot training. Prior to that he had visited the area as a barnstormer, selling airplane . . . — — Map (db m159617) HM |
| On East Logan Street west of North Wyandotte Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Musgrove Evans built this dwelling in 1826. It is the oldest frame house in
Tecumseh and believed to be the oldest still standing in Lenawee County. Evans was a pioneer settler in this area. He platted the village of Tecumseh, served as its first . . . — — Map (db m159742) HM |
| On Michigan Avenue (U.S. 12) 0.3 miles west of Breyman Highway, on the right when traveling west. |
| | In 1834 Henry W. Sisson of New York settled here and built a log tavern, located on Evans Lake where the Chicago Road enters the Irish Hills. The tavern was purchased in 1839 by John Davenport, who owned the property until 1864. During this time the . . . — — Map (db m103701) HM |
| On Buno Road 0.2 miles west of Pleasant Valley Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | In 1842 pioneer settler Richard Lyons donated land for the first school in Brighton Township's District No. 8. Area Methodists worshipped in the log school until 1874. In 1885 the log building was replaced with this one-room clapboard structure. . . . — — Map (db m156118) HM |
| Near West St. Paul Street north of West North Street. |
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Side 1
The Brighton Village Cemetery began as a burial ground for the family of William A. Clark, D.D., an Episcopal minister from New York City, who settled with his family in Brighton Township in 1837. Clark acquired many acres of land, . . . — — Map (db m107616) HM |
| On West Main Street at North West Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street. |
| | Settled in 1832 by Maynard Maltby, this community was originally called Ore Creek for the stream that flows through it. In 1838 its name was changed to Brighton. It was incorporated as a village in 1867 and as a city in 1928. In 1878 the village . . . — — Map (db m107605) HM |
| On Rickett Road south of South Church Street. |
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St. Patrick Church
St. Patrick was the first church to serve Brighton area Catholics, many of whom were immigrants from Ireland. A simple log structure at the corner of McCabe and Silver Lake Roads built in 1838 was used by the congregation . . . — — Map (db m107557) HM |
| On West St. Paul Street at North West Street, on the right when traveling west on West St. Paul Street. |
| | When the Reverend William A. Clark, D. D., purchased his land in Brighton Township, he set aside an acre as a church site and established a cemetery near it. In 1837 he organized an Episcopal group and conducted its first services in his orchard. . . . — — Map (db m107623) HM |
| On Silver Lake Road 0.3 miles east of Kensington Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Twenty-five year old Kinsley Bingham left his New York home in 1833 saying: "Give me $500 and let me go to Michigan and I'll be governor in two years." He settled here, constructing this handsome Greek Revival house in 1842. Bingham's boast was not . . . — — Map (db m107539) HM |
| On State Park Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This was once the summer camp of Michigan's National Guard. Here in 1898 the five regiments which were recruited in the state during the war with Spain were organized. Ten men volunteered for every one who could be accepted. Two of the units, the . . . — — Map (db m107555) HM |
| On Hamburg Road (Route 10585) north of Strawberry Lake Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | St. Stephen's
This building is one of the oldest Episcopal churches in Michigan. St. Stephen's parish was organized in 1844, and construction of the church began almost immediately. Hiram Raymond of Hamburg was the contractor, and building funds . . . — — Map (db m67453) HM |
| On Hamburg Road at Strawberry Lake Road, on the right when traveling north on Hamburg Road. |
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Side A:
Hamburg
The year 1831 marked the arrival of Hamburg's first settlers -- Felix Dunlavy, Jesse Hall, Calvin Jackson, Cornelius Miller and Herman Lake -- and their families. In 1835, Ann Arbor merchant E.F. Gray and Amariah . . . — — Map (db m50165) HM |
| On Wetmore Street at North Walnut Street, on the left when traveling east on Wetmore Street. |
| | Howell raised $20,000 in 1885 to induce the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan to enter town. Many believed the town, already served by one railroad, would boom with a second line. Early in 1886 a right-of-way dispute erupted in an armed brawl . . . — — Map (db m107759) HM |
| On East Grand River Avenue (Business Interstate 96) at North State Street, on the right when traveling west on East Grand River Avenue. |
| | Albert E. French designed this two-and-a-half story brick and stone building. This edifice, completed in 1890, shows influence of Richardsonian architecture and has maintained many of its original Victorian furnishings. Peter and Maria Cowdry . . . — — Map (db m107800) HM |
| On South Walnut Street at West Crane Street, on the right when traveling south on South Walnut Street. |
| | This c. 1846 Greek Revival house, among Howell's oldest, was home to prominent citizen George W. Lee (1812-1882). Lee moved from New York State to Michigan in 1836. A businessman and public servant, Lee helped establish the Republican Party in 1854 . . . — — Map (db m107753) HM |
| On West Grand River Avenue (Business Interstate 96) at Center Street, on the left when traveling east on West Grand River Avenue. |
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Side 1
The Howell library association originated as the Ladies Library Association in 1875. That year, the ladies began offering books for lending. The need for spacious, permanent quarters grew, and in 1902, for three hundred dollars and . . . — — Map (db m107873) HM |
| On East Grand River Avenue (Business Interstate 96) at South Barnard Street, on the right when traveling east on East Grand River Avenue. |
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Side 1
The Livingston County Press, one of Michigan's oldest weekly newspapers, traces its roots to The Livingston Courier, The Livingston Republican and The Livingston Democrat. The Courier, established in . . . — — Map (db m107830) HM |
| On South Walnut Street at West Grand River Avenue (Business Interstate 96), on the left when traveling south on South Walnut Street. |
| | Built c. 1881 — — Map (db m107799) HM |
| On North Hacker Road at East Highland Road (State Highway 59), on the right when traveling south on North Hacker Road. |
| | Irish immigrants founded a Catholic mission in Livingston County in 1843. The following year, two acres of land were purchased here and a log structure was erected for worship services. As the congregation grew it required a larger facility, and a . . . — — Map (db m107751) HM |
| On U.S. 2 west of Hiawatha Trail Road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Epoufette has been a fishing village since 1859, when Amable Goudreau, born in Quebec around 1824, established a commercial fishery. More than a century after his death in 1882, some of his descendants continued fishing operations. Father Edward . . . — — Map (db m4446) HM |
| On Market Street at Fort Street, on the right when traveling west on Market Street. |
| | On June 6, 1822, Alexis St. Martin (1804-1880), a French Canadian voyageur, was accidentally shot in the American Fur Company Store located on this site. Dr. William Beaumont (1786-1853), the Fort Mackinac post surgeon, nursed St. Martin back . . . — — Map (db m34923) HM |
| On Lake Shore Drive (State Highway 185) at British Landing Road, on the left when traveling north on Lake Shore Drive. |
| | Here, during the night of July 16-17, 1812, a small force of British regulars and several hundred voyageurs and Indian allies from St. Joseph Island landed. They occupied a height that overlooks Fort Mackinac and demanded its surrender. Lt. . . . — — Map (db m96411) HM |
| Near Fort Holmes Road 0.5 miles south of Garrison Road. |
| | Here in 1812, on the island's highest point, a blockhouse and stockade were built by the British and named Fort George. It was the bulwark of British defenses in 1814 when the American attack was repulsed. After the war the Americans renamed the . . . — — Map (db m55408) HM |
| On Huron Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Mackinac Island has been called the most historic spot in the Middle West. Fort Mackinac was first built by the British in 1780-81. It was not until 1796, thirteen years after the end of the Revolutionary War, that the British relinquished this fort . . . — — Map (db m34972) HM |
| On Huron Street (State Highway 185 at milepost 0) at Mission Street, on the left when traveling east on Huron Street. |
| | This is one of Michigan's oldest Protestant churches. It was built in 1829-30 by the Presbyterian flock of Rev. Wm. M. Ferry, founder in 1823 of a nearby Indian mission. Robert Stuart and Henry Schoolcraft were lay leaders. About 1838 private owners . . . — — Map (db m34913) HM |
| On Huron Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | The Round Island Lighthouse, seen south of this site, was completed in 1895. Operating under the auspices of the United States Government, this facility was in continuous use for fifty-two years. It was manned by a crew of three until its beacon was . . . — — Map (db m35151) HM |
| On Lake Shore Drive (State Highway 185) at Church Street, on the left when traveling west on Lake Shore Drive. |
| | In 1670, Jesuit Father Charles Dablon founded a birchbark mission chapel on Mackinac Island. The following year, Father Jacques Marquette relocated the mission at Saint Ignace. Abandoned in 1706 and restablished at Fort Michilimackinac around 1715, . . . — — Map (db m96412) HM |
| On Garrison Road at Rifle Range Road, on the right when traveling north on Garrison Road. |
| | According to tradition this is the cave in which the English fur-trader Alexander Henry hid out during the Indian uprising of 1763. The floor of the cave, he claimed, was covered with human bones, presumably Indian. — — Map (db m34912) HM |
| Near U.S. 2 1.1 miles east of Beach Road. |
| | About a mile west of here is the northernmost point of Lake Michigan. This geographical location is of historical importance because the act of Congress which created the territory of Michigan in 1805 used it to mark the western boundary of this new . . . — — Map (db m139339) HM |
| On North State Street (Business Interstate 75) at East Goudreau Street, on the left when traveling north on North State Street. |
| | This fort was built by the French near here within a decade after Marquette had established his mission in 1671. Its name was that of the family of Frontenac, the French Governor for North America. Until Detroit was founded in 1701, this was the . . . — — Map (db m139604) HM |
| On U.S. 2 0.9 miles west of Gudmunson Road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | French fishermen who came to Gros Cap (on the shore below) early last century also participated in its offshore settlement, St. Helena Island, where ships obtained wood fuel and other supplies. There in 1850, Archie and Wilson Newton set up a . . . — — Map (db m104025) HM |
| Near U.S. 2 0.2 miles east of Cheeseman Road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | This lake, the sixth largest in the world, was discovered in 1634 by Jean Nicolet, who explored this north shore to Green Bay but found no Orientals as the French in Quebec had hoped he would. The general size and outline of the lake was established . . . — — Map (db m4439) HM |
| On Interstate 75 at milepost 343, 0.8 miles south of U.S. 2, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Nicolet passed through the Straits in 1634 seeking a route to the Orient. Soon it became a crossroads where Indian, missionary, trapper, and soldier met. From the 1600's through the War of 1812 first Frenchman and Englishman, then Briton and . . . — — Map (db m101013) HM |
| On Business Interstate 75, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Pere Marquette established in 1671 the Mission of St. Ignace. French troops soon after built Fort Buade. The state’s second oldest white village guarded the Straits while serving as the most important French fur post in the northwest. By 1706 both . . . — — Map (db m34970) HM |
| On North State Street (Business Interstate 75) at Marquette Street, on the left when traveling north on North State Street. |
| | In 1671 the mission of St. Ignace was established so that the Christian message could be brought to several thousand Indians living on this shore. The founder was Father Jacques Marquette, the Jesuit missionary. In 1673 he left on his great journey . . . — — Map (db m139390) HM |
| On Van Dyke (State Highway 53) at Engelman Street, on the left when traveling south on Van Dyke. |
| | Priests from Detroit served the Catholics of Kunrod's Corner, present-day Center Line, from 1852 to 1857. In 1854 Saint Clement Catholic Parish was founded, and a church was erected on land sold to the Diocese of Detroit by Hermann and Magthalina . . . — — Map (db m106224) HM |
| On Engelman Street 0.2 miles east of Van Dyke (State Highway 53), on the right when traveling east. |
| | St. Clement Catholic Church served as the center of community life for the Belgian, German, Polish, French, and Irish Catholics who settled at Kunrod's Corner during the mid-nineteenth century. This cemetery originated as the parish's burying . . . — — Map (db m106225) HM |
| On Gloria Goike Boulevard 0.2 miles north of Sugarbush Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Father Joseph Wuest established the Detroit Chapter of the Catholic Kolping Society in 1926. Wuest inscribed "Honor by means of untiring work," on a plaque for this chapel, which he built in 1932. Constructed of stones and shells sent from Kolping . . . — — Map (db m123236) HM |
| | Established in 1855, the Clinton Grove Cemetery exhibits an exquisite array of funerary art in a wooded landscape. This combination of nature and monuments reflects the rural cemetery movement of the nineteenth century, which popularized park-like . . . — — Map (db m32164) HM |
| On Metropolitan Parkway at Moravian Drive, on the right when traveling west on Metropolitan Parkway. |
| | In 1782 marauding American militia massacred nearly one hundred Christian Delaware Indians at their village in eastern Ohio. Seeking refuge, the Delaware settled on the Clinton River two and one-half miles north of here, on land granted by the . . . — — Map (db m85632) HM |
| On Romeo Plank Road at 27 Mile Road, on the right when traveling north on Romeo Plank Road. |
| | In 1844 the Reverend Jonathon Davis founded the Methodist Episcopal Church to serve the community of Davis, known then as the village of Brooklyn. In 1846 the congregation built the town's first church. The present one, which dates from 1895, is a . . . — — Map (db m87612) HM |
| On East Nine Mile Road at Grove Avenue, on the left when traveling west on East Nine Mile Road. |
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This school served children in Erin and Warren Townships from 1872 to 1921. Beginning in 1838, German farmer Christian Gerlach held classes in his home. During the 1840s a log building served as a classroom. In 1850 a red frame school was built. . . . — — Map (db m122963) HM |
| On Gratiot Avenue (State Highway 3) at Semrau Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Gratiot Avenue. |
| | German immigrants began organizing Methodist churches in Michigan in 1846. In 1849 a small group founded the Immanuel Methodist Church in Roseville to serve Detroit's northeast side. In 1933, when the Roseville church was razed to widen Gratiot . . . — — Map (db m124524) HM |
| On Gratiot Avenue (State Highway 3) at Aurora Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Gratiot Avenue. |
| | Erin Township's German immigrants first worshipped together in a log church amid an oak forest in 1846. The following year the Reverend John Friedrich Winkler helped organize St. Peter's church as a "country church" near Detroit. This is the third . . . — — Map (db m124572) HM |
| On Masonic Boulevard at Kelly Road, on the right when traveling west on Masonic Boulevard. |
| | A native of Bavaria, John Baumgartner purchased this property in Erin Township in 1856, becoming one of Fraser's first landowners. Around 1866 he and his wife, Samantha, moved here with the first three of their seven children. In 1875 they erected . . . — — Map (db m110795) HM |
| On East 14 Mile Road near Utica Road, on the right when traveling west. |
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In 1864, local residents asked Pastor Herman Lemke of East Detroit to help them organize a Lutheran church in Fraser. That same year, they built a small wood frame building on land south of 14 Mile Road. Each week after Sunday service, . . . — — Map (db m111062) HM |
| Near Lake Shore Road 0.2 miles north of Shorecrest Circle. |
| | Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company for many years, and his wife, Eleanor Clay, completed this 87-acre estate in 1927. Architect Albert Kahn derived the design from precedents in Cotswold, England, and many of the building materials, . . . — — Map (db m143597) HM |
| On Doolittle Drive at C Street, on the right when traveling south on Doolittle Drive. |
| | Selfridge, Michigan's first real airport, began operations as a training base in July, 1917. It has progressed to a leading role in America's air arm. It is often called "The Home of Generals" because Selfridge has been a springboard to success in . . . — — Map (db m157867) HM |
| On Bordman Road 0.2 miles east of Cedar Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Thomas Clegg (1863-1939) and his English-born father, John, built “The Thing,” the first recorded self-propelled vehicle in Michigan (and perhaps the country) in 1884-85. The Thing, driven by a single cylinder steam engine with a tubular . . . — — Map (db m135276) HM |
| On North Main Street near Macomb Place, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In 1818 Territorial Governor Lewis Cass proclaimed the third Michigan County to be called Macomb. At that time the young General was Commander of the Fifth Military Department in Detroit. Born in that city in 1782, son of prominent local . . . — — Map (db m146870) HM |
| On Macomb Place at Southbound Gratiot Avenue (Michigan Highway 3), on the right when traveling south on Macomb Place. |
| | Mount Clemens Carnegie building was erected in 1904 and was the first Carnegie Library built in Macomb County. It is one out of 1,681 such libraries across the United States financed by Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist and philanthropist. The . . . — — Map (db m85696) HM |
| On Union Street 0.1 miles west of Southbound Gratiot Avenue (Michigan Highway 3), on the left when traveling west. |
| | The first mayor of Mount Clemens, Josua Dickinson, built this Italianate house in 1869. His daughter Katherine (1849-1882), the great-granddaughter of city founder Christian Clemens, and his son-in-law, George M. Crocker (1848-1918), moved into it . . . — — Map (db m85660) HM |
| On South Main Street at Church Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street. |
| | The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan sent Edward Magee to Mount Clemens in 1849. The interest generated by this missionary visit culminated a year later when the Grace Episcopal congregation was formed. In December of that year Michigan's first . . . — — Map (db m85763) HM |
| On Cass Avenue at Southbound Gratiot Avenue (Michigan Highway 3), on the right when traveling west on Cass Avenue. |
| | When this Collegiate Gothic Church, designed by Cleveland architect Herman W. Maurer, was dedicated during the week of of January 3, 1926, the Mount Clemens Daily Leader called it a "Monument to Unity of Action." Over a century earlier, in 1820, the . . . — — Map (db m32093) HM |
| On Cass Avenue 0.1 miles east of Southbound Gratiot Avenue (Michigan Highway 3), on the left when traveling east. |
| | For seven decades, Mount Clemens was internationally renowned as a mineral bath resort city. In 1865 the first well was sunk to obtain brine for salt production. Because of the high cost of separating the salt from the various other minerals and . . . — — Map (db m85658) HM |
| On North Avenue at Yeamans Street, on the left when traveling north on North Avenue. |
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(Side 1)
Opened in 1899, the Saint Joseph Sanitarium and Bath House is the only building remaining from the Mount Clemens bath era. Beginning in 1870, people suffering from rheumatism, blood poisoning, diabetes and skin diseases, among . . . — — Map (db m85643) HM |
| On New Street 0.1 miles south of Southbound Gratiot Avenue (Michigan Highway 3), on the left when traveling south. |
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(Side 1)
In 1870 Father Camillius Maes of Saint Peter Parish erected Saint Mary's School on this lot, adjacent to the church. When the grammar school opened in that year, it was the first Catholic school in the city and in Macomb . . . — — Map (db m85703) HM |
| On Grand Avenue north of Cass Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | While working as a railway newsboy on the Detroit-Port Huron line, Tom Edison often stopped in Mount Clemens. He made friends with station agent J.U. Mackenzie and in 1862 saved Mackenzie's young son from death by a train. In gratitude Mr. Mackenzie . . . — — Map (db m143408) HM |
| On New Street at Pine Street, on the right when traveling north on New Street. |
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Organized on July 3, 1854, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was the first German Protestant congregation in Mount Clemens. Its founding trustees were John Rossow and Abraham Devantier from Prussia, John William Miller and Carsten . . . — — Map (db m85723) HM |
| On Washington Street south of Alfred Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Frederick Losh opened the Grand Pacific House in 1881, during New Baltimore's golden era. The Italiante hotel and saloon was built of bricks made locally at Streits's brickyard. Losh quickly profited from the city's popularity as a summer resort. . . . — — Map (db m152070) HM |
| On Maria Street at Green Street (State Highway 29), on the right when traveling south on Maria Street. |
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New Baltimore
French explorers led by Pierre Yax first settled this area now known as New Baltimore in 1796. Chippewa Indians inhabited this vicinity then. Fabian Robertjean made the first government land purchase in 1820. Twenty-five years . . . — — Map (db m152837) HM |
| On Wolcott Road 0.7 miles north of 29 Mile Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | In 1863, Ray area farmers built what became known popularly as Mill School. Kindergarten through eighth grade students attended school here until 1953. That year the school district consolidated with Romeo School District and it transferred the . . . — — Map (db m34018) HM |
| On Wolcott Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The First Religious Society of Ray organized in 1869 and built this church on land donated by Arad Freeman, a member of Ray's founding families. Known for a time as the Ray Union Church, it originally had a steeple, and was similar in design to the . . . — — Map (db m34016) HM |
| Near Kunstman Road 0.6 miles north of 29 Mile Road. |
| | Wolcott Mill is among the oldest mills in Michigan. Built in the mid-1840s by the Arad Freeman family, early Macomb County settlers. It passed through several owners before Frederick Wolcott purchased it in 1878. The Wolcott family upgraded the . . . — — Map (db m87660) HM |
| On Churchill Street at Parker Street, on the right when traveling west on Churchill Street. |
| | Built in 1887, this structure formerly served as the First Congregational Church. When the congregation merged with St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1973, it sold the building to the Richmond Community Theatre. That group adapted the . . . — — Map (db m123721) HM |
| On Washington Street at Stone Street, on the left when traveling east on Washington Street. |
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Sanford Stone
Sanford Stone (1828-1888) came to Richmond in 1843. In 1875 he platted "Sanford M. Stone's Addition to the village of Richmond," which included Jefferson and Washington Streets between Ferguson and Beebe. Stone held many . . . — — Map (db m123722) HM |
| On Campground Road north of West Gates Street, on the left when traveling north. |
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Side 1
In the early nineteenth century Methodists began holding camp meetings, an outgrowth of their early revivals. Revival services were held during the winter months, and late summer was generally reserved for the district camp meeting. . . . — — Map (db m123303) HM |
| On North Main Street at Church Street, on the left when traveling north on North Main Street. |
| | Originally known as Indian Village, Romeo was platted in 1830 on the former winter campgrounds of a band of Chippewa Indians. Nathaniel Taylor, Ashael Bailey and a Major Larned laid out the village, which was incorporated in 1838. Named Romeo by . . . — — Map (db m123372) HM |
| On Gratiot Avenue (State Highway 3) at Wallace Street, on the right when traveling north on Gratiot Avenue. |
| | Under the leadership of the Reverend Harry N. Bissell of Mount Clemens, several families organized the First Presbyterian Church of Erin in 1860. The original thirteen members held their first services in a small schoolhouse. They were the first . . . — — Map (db m110738) HM |
| On Gratiot Avenue (State Highway 3) at Utica Road, on the right when traveling north on Gratiot Avenue. |
| | On June 1, 1861, the Reverend Amandus Van Den Driessche, from the Detroit Diocese, helped establish a Catholic mission at Utica Junction (now Roseville). The Sacred Heart mission, composed of Irish, German, Belgian and French families, completed its . . . — — Map (db m110679) HM |
| On Van Dyke Ave. (State Highway 53) 0.4 miles north of 22 Mile Rd., on the left when traveling north. |
| | Packard Motor Car Company In 1899 brothers James Ward and William Doud Packard founded the Ohio Automobile Company in Warren, Ohio. In 1902 Detroiter Henry Joy and several other local investors purchased the company, moved it to Detroit, and . . . — — Map (db m135685) HM |
| On unnamed road 0.7 miles east of Ryan Road when traveling east. |
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Spring Hill Farm
Peter and Sarah Lerich established Spring Hill Farm in the 1830s. Their daughter Liberetta wrote in 1923 that her parents, opponents of slavery, had built a hiding place into a hillside as part of the Underground Railroad. . . . — — Map (db m137840) HM |
| On Shelby Road near Sylvan Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | John and Mary Stead deeded 4.46 acres of land to the Utica Cemetery Association in 1863. Included in that parcel was a section referred to as the "Old Burying Ground" and a family plot called "Stead's Reserve." The first burial occurred in 1817 upon . . . — — Map (db m118901) HM |
| | Matthew Kramer, a hotelier and yachtsman, built this roadhouse in 1911, naming it the Kramerhof. In 1920 the building was sold to William McIntosh, who renamed it the Blossom Heath Inn and added two large wings, which included an ornate ballroom. . . . — — Map (db m102498) HM |
| | French explorers discovered and named Lake Saint Clair on August 12, 1679. Among the party of 34 men were voyageur Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle and Roman Catholic friar Father Louis Hennepin. Aboard the Griffon, the first sailing . . . — — Map (db m102458) HM |
| On Lakeshore Drive 0.1 miles south of Westbury Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The strip of land at the mouth of the Milk River was named Pointe a Guignolet for a grape-link berry that the French fermented into brandy. It later became known as Gaukler Point. The 1702 map of Lac Sainte Claire, attributed to . . . — — Map (db m102506) HM |
| On East Eleven Mile Road 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling east. |
| | In 1868, when this area was covered with small farms, Prussian immigrants John and Mary Selinsky bought farm land in Erin Township and built this salt-box house using solid log construction covered with clapboard. The Selinskys gave the house to . . . — — Map (db m102473) HM |
| On Jefferson Avenue at Revere Street, on the right when traveling north on Jefferson Avenue. |
| | The Detroit, Lake Shore, and Mt. Clemens Railway, also known as the Shore Line, began interurban rail service on September 28, 1898. The twenty-six mile route from Detroit followed Jefferson Avenue through Grosse Pointe and St. Clair Shores to . . . — — Map (db m102489) HM |
| On Dodge Park Road 0.2 miles north of Metropolitan Parkway (16 Mile Road), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Near this site in 1961 archaeologists from the Aboriginal Research Club and the University of Michigan uncovered evidence of an early Paleo-Indian settlement. Here about 11,000 years ago these first prehistoric dwellers in the Great Lakes region . . . — — Map (db m34227) HM |
| On Utica Road at Dodge Park Road, on the right when traveling south on Utica Road. |
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Side 1
Constructed in 1866-67, the William Upton House is one of the oldest surviving nineteenth-century brick dwellings in Sterling Heights. Italianate in style, the house features a reconstructed open porch topped by a second story . . . — — Map (db m79392) HM |
| On Utica Road near Nichols Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In May 1866 the Reverend Amandus VanDenDriessche of Detroit recited Utica's first Catholic Mass. Forty Irish families at Utica Junction (present-day Roseville) formed what became a mission of Sacred Heart Parish. On August 15, 1874, Bishop C. H. . . . — — Map (db m118891) HM |
| On Tank Avenue just east of Donald Court, on the right when traveling west. Reported missing. |
| | Side A In 1940 the U.S. Army and the Chrysler Corporation hired Detroit architect Albert Kahn to design a self-contained tank plant. Kahn specialized in factories. In 1941 he designed 20 million square feet of defense plants. The first tank . . . — — Map (db m101995) HM |
| Near East Thirteen Mile Road at Ryan Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery was organized in 1925 to serve the rapidly expanding post-war Detroit black population. Concerned with the indignities and poor quality of service received by the black community, several distinguished Detroiters . . . — — Map (db m87801) HM |
| On Mound Road at GM Tech Center Road, on the right when traveling north on Mound Road. |
| | An American icon of modern architecture, the General Motors (GM) Technical Center stands as a model corporate research and development park. Thirty-one buildings were constructed between 1949 and 1985. Conceived in 1944 by Board of Directors . . . — — Map (db m87767) HM |
| On Mound Road at GM Tech Center Road, on the right when traveling north on Mound Road. |
| | Son of a pioneer Dutch-French family, Groesbeck was born in Warren Township near the corner of Mound and Twelve Mile Roads in 1872. His father's election as sheriff in 1880 caused the family to move to Mount Clemens. In 1893 Alex graduated from the . . . — — Map (db m87766) HM |
| On East Ten Mile Road, on the right when traveling east. |
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Built c. 1857 — — Map (db m106145) HM |
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