Gay was established in 1901, when the Mohawk and Wolverine mining companies each built a stamp mill here to process copper ore from their mines. The area, once known for quarrying, lumbering, and fishing, developed into a booming mill town named for . . . — — Map (db m153268) HM
1858: Erected by U.S. Lighthouse Service
1899: Fog Signal Building constructed
1900: Converted to a two family dwelling
1916: Kitchen added
1952: Modernized and electrified porch wings added
1972: Building closed. Automatic Light Tower . . . — — Map (db m162126) HM
Pierce Stocking, a native of northern Lower Michigan, worked as a lumberman and spent much of his leisure time in the woods. He wanted to share his love of nature with others and conceived the idea of constructing a scenic drive onto the Sleeping . . . — — Map (db m98312) HM
This school was erected in 1877 to replace a log structure built in 1870. The school has two rooms that housed grades one through eight. Older children attended school in Suttons Bay or Traverse City. Sunday school classes met here until 1888 when . . . — — Map (db m204878) HM
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
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
Here on the south side of Maumee Street in 1848, Thomas M. Cooley, a giant of the Michigan Law, established his first law office. He was a partner in the firm of Beaman, Beecher and Cooley and then established a law firm with Charles M. Croswell, . . . — — Map (db m102922) HM
Front Side
Erected by the
Adrian Woman's Christian
Temperance Union
and the
Haviland Memorial
Association
"I was thirsty and ye gave me drink."
Matthew XXV 35
Left Side
A tribute to a life consecrated to the . . . — — Map (db m103220) HM
Sacred Heart Hall, designed by Detroit architect Peter Dederichs, was built in 1922 to house Saint Joseph’s College. In 1919 Mother Camilla Madden and the Adrian Dominican Sisters founded Saint Joseph’s College as a liberal arts and teacher training . . . — — Map (db m180274) HM
Three bells were originally placed in the
St. Joseph belfry January of 1882.
The largest of these cracked in 1892 and
was replaced in 1895 by this 1500lb. bell.
It rang for about a century before it also
cracked and was replaced in May of 2007. — — Map (db m187552) HM
Michigan
Registered
Historic Site
Saint Joseph
School
Built in 1884
Burea of History, Michigan Department of State
Registered Local Site No. 1716
Property of the State of Michigan, 1993 — — Map (db m187553) HM
Installed atop South Hall in 1872, this bell marked the pace of life at Adrian College for many years. Upon the demolition of South Hall in 1965, the bell was placed in the Carillon Tower which marks the location of South Hall.
We, the members . . . — — Map (db m103184) HM
The Cane Ceremony, a traditional part of the Adrian College Commencement, has a rich and colorful heritage. As depicted in this 1940's era drawing by Will Cairns, each Adrian College graduating class ties a ribbon in its class colors to the . . . — — Map (db m102941) HM
The Centennial Mall is dedicated to the Adrian Dominican Sisters who founded St. Joseph's College for women in 1919. St. Joseph's College was renamed Siena Heights College in 1939 in honor of St. Catherine of Siena, and later renamed Siena . . . — — Map (db m182428) HM
Given to the Village of Blissfield, through
the will of Martha Schultz, by Frederick Schultz
(Deceased, 1948) and Martha Schultz (Deceased, 1950)
In memory of Harold W. and Erma Schultz Holmes, and their son, Frederick, All of whom were lost . . . — — Map (db m187565) HM
This site has been a part of Clinton's educational system since Union
High School opened here January 1, 1860. The three-story facility was con-
structured of brick garnered from the village brickyard. Boys entered Union
High School through an . . . — — Map (db m160038) HM
Seneca Township children
attended school here, on
the Wilson Farm, as early
as 1857. As school
inspector, Simon Wilson
oversaw construction and
maintenance of schools
for fifteen years. In
1899 his son Charles sold
land to the district, . . . — — Map (db m165615) HM
In 1850 the Reverend Robert
Wooden built this school,
located in Cambridge School
District No. 6. It is an example
of early fieldstone construction, commonly found in the
southern part of the Lower
Peninsula. The school closed
in 1955, and in . . . — — Map (db m161144) HM
Alvira and her husband, John, lived on Hamburg Road, south of Brighton with their two girls, Carrie and Lucy. John taught school in the Village of Brighton before being admitted to the University of Michigan Law School in the late 1850s. He . . . — — Map (db m107677) HM
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
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
This structure was constructed in 1858 as the Hartland First Congregational Church. It was purchased in 1929 for $500 by the Hartland Consolidated School Foundation, established by John Robert Crouse, Sr. In 1932 the remodeled building became the . . . — — Map (db m178054) HM
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 railroad . . . — — Map (db m107873) HM
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
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
Side 1
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
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
(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
Elisha Weller owned the land on which the school was situated for many years. In May, 1831, Elisha purchased three 80 acre parcels of farm land in Chesterfield from the United States Government. To date, the earliest records which we have been able . . . — — Map (db m124292) HM
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
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
This farm house was built in 1895. The architectural design is a combination of Greek Revival & Queen Anne (noted by the gables, dental moldings, fish scale shingles and fret work).
The house originally sat 200 ft. E. from it's current . . . — — Map (db m107289) HM
This large frame house was built in 1865 by a family named Jones. In 1889, Dr. Flynn bought it and his family continued to live here until 1951.
Dr. John C. Flynn, born in New York in 1850, came to the Warren Village in 1880 and was the only . . . — — Map (db m106005) HM
Built in 1858, this home belonged to the Frank Reddick family. Mr. Reddick, a 63-year Warren resident, served as Village president from 1895-1896 and from 1902-1909 and was an original member of the William Murthum School Board in 1925.
In . . . — — Map (db m155177) HM
This building was commonly names Bunert School, for August and Mine Bunert, who sold land to Warren School District No. 4 in January 1875. The school was built later that year on the northeast cornet of the intersection of Bunert and Martin roads. . . . — — Map (db m77790) HM
The Warren Village Hall was built originally in 1922 to house the offices of the village officials and serve as the voting place for village residents.
The west side of the building housed the Warren Community Library from 1949 to 1957.
. . . — — Map (db m91431) HM
Loren Andrus (1816-1901) came to Macomb County from New York State in 1828. He served as an assistant engineer on the survey of the Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal, but gained prominence in agricultural work. In particular he focused on the breeding of . . . — — Map (db m120833) HM
In 1880 many Germans left Milwaukee and settled in Manistee County. Among them was lumberman Henry Starke, who vowed to return to Wisconsin if no Lutheran church could be found. Instead he helped to organize this congregation in 1881, and he . . . — — Map (db m97463) HM
One lazy summer day in 1911, Manistee residents Herbert Harley and Charles Ruggles discussed reform of the American justice system while floating in a skiff on Lake Michigan near here. That conversation led to the birth of the American Judicature . . . — — Map (db m97436) HM
In 1885 a group of Manistee Ladies formed the Lakeside Club, whose primary goal was to create a library. In 1902 the club joined forces with the local literary society and successfully campaigned for a public library. The Andrew Carnegie . . . — — Map (db m97376) HM
Dedicated to the memory of
Paul P. Harris
Founder of Rotary
Feb. 23, 1905
--------------------------
This Park Is Dedicated
to the Memory of
Paul P. Harris
1868 – 1947
Founder of Rotary International
Spent Summers in . . . — — Map (db m97447) HM
Established by the legislature in 1899 as a normal school to provide teachers for the Upper Peninsula, Northern opened with thirty-two students, six faculty members, and Dwight B. Waldo as principal. A four-year collegiate program was introduced in . . . — — Map (db m206001) HM
Northern Michigan University's original 20 acre site was donated to the State Board of Education by John M. Longyear and Frederick Ayer in 1899. The first dormitory (1900-1917) was located to the south across Kaye Avenue. D. F. Charleton was the . . . — — Map (db m214504) HM
Between 1946 and 1957 Vetville existed on this site. It was developed by President Henry Tape (1940-1956) to accommodate the influx of World War II veterans who attended Northern Michigan University funded by the G.I. Bill. It was also home to . . . — — Map (db m214444) HM
On this site was located "Old Main," a landmark of Ferris Institute in its early years. From its dedication in January 1894 until its loss by fire in February 1950, "Old Main" helped create many happy memories for thousands of "Fi's." Preparation . . . — — Map (db m106742) HM
This college was founded in 1884 by Woodbridge N. Ferris as the Big Rapids Industrial School. His objective was to provide low cost, practical training for all with a real desire to study, regardless of a lack of previous formal education. The . . . — — Map (db m106741) HM
Helen Gillespie Ferris (1853-1917) loved flowers as much as she was inspired by learning and cultivating lives. This garden was conceived on the 125th anniversary of the institution that she and her husband Woodbridge N. Ferris, founded to . . . — — Map (db m106744) HM
Wheatland Church of Christ,
also known as the
Cross Church, is the oldest Disciples
of Christ church built mainly
for and by blacks in western
Michigan. Thomas Cross
(1826-1897), who with five
other members founded the
church in 1870, was . . . — — Map (db m190613) HM
This one room school house was called the Felix
School and was located at the corner of Eleven
mile and Beamish roads in Jerome township.
The Holsinger family donated the school to the
Sanford Historical Society. The school was
originally . . . — — Map (db m160030) HM
The main brick school was built in 1910 as a two-room school. The building was doubled in size in 1939 by Works Progress Administration workers. K thru 8th grade attended the school. The high school students went to Midland or Coleman for their . . . — — Map (db m160011) HM
This plaque is issued by the
Historical Society of Michigan
in recognition of
Sanford Centennial
Museum
founded in 1970
for more than 50 years of
continuous operation in service
to the people of Michigan
and for contributing to . . . — — Map (db m160591) HM
Hull's Treaty of 1807 gave the Potawatomi and other Indian tribes nine sections of land in Dundee Township, "where the Macon flows into th River Raisin". Main Street, Neiman, Day and Dundee-Azalia Roads were the original boundaries.
The Indians . . . — — Map (db m200517) HM
The first school bus safety crossing mirror in the world was
installed on a Bedford Rural Agricultural School bus in 1950
at Lambertville, MI. Inventor Reid Stout was principal,
teacher, and bus driver. The morror was designed to save
children’s . . . — — Map (db m132037) HM
On this site in 1849 the Reverend Erasmus J. Boyd opened the Young Ladies' Seminary, for 29 years a select school for girls and the town's cultural center.
The Detroit Archdiocese acquired the property in 1885 for a boys' college preparatory . . . — — Map (db m171063) HM
Pioneer settlers of Raisinville Township were the first citizens of Michigan to fully organize a school district which provided a building and financial support for basic education.
During 1828 the district built a log schoolhouse on land deeded . . . — — Map (db m170645) HM
McDowell Papermill
In 1838 Christopher McDowell built the first
newsprint mill in the Midwest on the south side
of the River Raisin, about 100 yards upriver. The
quality rag paper produced here was used by many
early newspapers in the . . . — — Map (db m215927) HM
A branch of the University of Michigan opened on this site, February 19, 1838. Later that year a female branch was authorized. Of 37 young women and 33 young men then enrolled, many were from prominent Monroe families. Others came from as far west . . . — — Map (db m171070) HM
This camp is dedicated to the children and civic organizations
of Monroe County for their pleasure and recreation.
——————————————
"Accolades" to
Arthur Lesow
our president for his untiring efforts
in behalf of Holiday Camp . . . — — Map (db m203860) HM
A tall oak grew in the yard of Lord School built on the NE corner of Sterns & Crabb Roads in 1853. Julius Sterns unfurled a United States banner from the tree in 1863 to prove his patriotism and hatred of slavery.
Frank Ludwig, noted Toledo . . . — — Map (db m170638) HM
These cornerstones were placed to commemorate the
original construction (1912) and added wing (1936)
of Greenville's Central School. Cornerstones were
laid with great ceremony, and hundreds of people
attended the events. Both cornerstones . . . — — Map (db m217442) HM
In October 1971, the Flat River Historical Society finalized a lease and founded the Museum which opened in 1972.
In 1977, the former Central
School was demolished and the original 1912 clock was
donated to the museum. It was mounted on . . . — — Map (db m217446) HM
On May 25, 1888, Muskegon lumber baron Charles H. Hackley announced that he would donate a library to the city. Hackley stipulated that the facility be "forever maintained as a library." Patton and Fisher of Chicago, one of the six firms invited to . . . — — Map (db m154384) HM
The Allen House, built in 1928, stands on land purchased by Elijah Willits from the federal government in December 1818. The first structure built on the land was a public elementary school, erected in 1856, which was used until 1869, when Hill . . . — — Map (db m213088) HM
The Hill Building Bell was removed when the former school/administration building was demolished in 1969. Hill School was built in 1869 at Chester and Merrill Streets. — — Map (db m213082) HM
Responding to a request from the Antoine Beaubien family, five religious of the French order of the Sacred Heart came from New York to Detroit in 1851. The religious opened a school on Jefferson Avenue in June of that year with ten day students . . . — — Map (db m68347) HM
It has been a building of many uses for many people.
It was built as Clarkston High School in 1910 and students learned and played here until 1930. In recent years, it was a community center and the Independence Township Hall. But in 1940 the . . . — — Map (db m128228) HM
1. First Post Office, 1825 (23925 Farmington Road)
2. Approximate site of first school, 1826
3. Site of first saw mill, 1826
4. Oldest frame house in Farmington, 1824
5. Site of first . . . — — Map (db m85016) HM
Buckhorn Corners was a hamlet in the early days of Farmington Township. A pioneer carpenter, Timothy Tolman, built an early frame house at Buckhorn Corners in 1828.
In the same year, the Tibbits Sawmill went into business half a mile south, . . . — — Map (db m136084) HM
This is the only existing one-room schoolhouse in the area used continuously for educational purposes. It was built on land donated for a public school and named after George German, one of an English group who settled here in 1835. It provided . . . — — Map (db m136187) HM
This graceful English-style stone clubhouse, completed in 1925, was designed by Butterfield and Butterfield of Farmington. In 1923 developers began the Oakland Subdivision housing development. The clubhouse and its adjoining nine-hole public golf . . . — — Map (db m135932) HM
An 80 acre parcel on this site was purchased by the Czechoslovak Workers Farm Co-operative Association in 1924. They opened a summer education and recreation camp for blue collar workers and their families here in 1928. The camp was purchased by the . . . — — Map (db m160879) HM
This beautiful historic building was constructed and then destroyed by fire in 1914. Known as The Ferndale School, it was re-built in time for the 1915 school year. Eventually known as The Central School, in the 1920's it was remodeled for District . . . — — Map (db m107989) HM
During the early twentieth century, many African Americans migrated north to work in Detroit's automobile factories. Increased migration during World War II prompted Royal Oak Township's Clinton School District to split into two racially segregated . . . — — Map (db m95364) HM
Michigan's Territorial Council passed a law in 1827 requiring every township with fifty or more inhabitants to establish a school. Thus, the following year, the first school in Southfield Township was erected in Franklin Village. Sophie Gotie taught . . . — — Map (db m98767) HM
John Howarth provided the land on which this Greek Revival schoolhouse was built in 1859. The building served the community as a place of worship for the Howarth United Methodist Church and as an Oakland County school. The Methodists moved to a new . . . — — Map (db m78025) HM
The "Milford Rural Agricultural School" was the first building in Milford Township designed solely for high school pupils. It was built in 1926 and was located on the east side of Hickory Street between Detroit and Summit Streets. This name stone . . . — — Map (db m125287) HM
The Michigan State University Tollgate Farm
is the latest in a line of stewards of this precious land. 160 acres were first settled by John and Ervilla Bassett in 1837 here at Twelve Mile and Meadowbrook Roads. The farm grew with access to . . . — — Map (db m164611) HM
This 150-pound cast iron bell was purchased for $15 in 1878 to call local children to Green School. Located at Green Road and Savoie Trail, the school was built on farmland donated by the Hartwell Green family, c. 1866. The bell is one of three . . . — — Map (db m176371) HM
Orchard Lake Schools
Orchard Lake School Historic District comprises eleven buildings constructed between 1858 and 1924. The oldest, a massive Romanesque Revival house resembling a Norman castle, was built in 1858 by one-time Michigan . . . — — Map (db m156488) HM
To change directions, trolleys had to turn around.
At this location, at the back of what had been the parade grounds of the Michigan Military Academy, the Detroit United Railway (DUR) built a "wye." This Y-shaped track allowed . . . — — Map (db m105150) HM
Children attended school in this building,
originally located on Sawmill Lake Road,
From 1879 to 1943
Moved to this site by The Ortonville
Community Historical Society in 1996 — — Map (db m179808) HM
This plaque is issued by the
Historical Society of Michigan
In Recognition Of
Pontiac
Public Library
Founded in 1882
For more than 100 years of Providing continuous service to the people of Michigan
And for contributing to the . . . — — Map (db m174238) HM
1817 Alexander Graham and his wife built the first permanent, non-native settler's dwelling in Oakland County (a log cabin on the plot just east of today's East Alley on Third Street). Their son, James, was born in 1818 and was the first . . . — — Map (db m219596) HM
1952 As the population in the Rochester area grew, a change in the organization of local schools became necessary. A special election in December 1952 consolidated the rural school districts of Brooklands, Stony Creek, Mt. Vernon, Snell, . . . — — Map (db m219867) HM
On this site
1817-The first house built in Oakland County
1818-The first settler's child born in Oakland County
1823-The first school started in Rochester — — Map (db m118709) HM
Built in 1889 to replace a school that had burned down the year before, the Avon School District No. 5 Schoolhouse sits on the site of the first private school in Avon Township, originally constructed in 1847. Since Rochester's founding, the . . . — — Map (db m118785) HM
Ken and Dorothy Stewart first visited the site of this campus in 1957 for an open house on the newly acquired property. As new Christians, the young couple decided they would like to have their children someday attend the new Christian college . . . — — Map (db m160423) HM
Originally a gravel pit operated during the early 1900s by Isaac Boomer, Lake Norcentra has served as a focal point of Rochester College since 1959. Early college leaders derived the lake's name from the first institutional name, North Central . . . — — Map (db m159785) HM
In memory of
Shane D. Carter
loving wife of Don H. Carter and mother of Mark W. Carter
Provided by
Don H. Carter
Class of 1964
The Carter family has supported Rochester College since its beginning. Don Carter Sr. and his wife . . . — — Map (db m160424) HM
Before the 1959 founding of this educational institution, the Montgomery and Slater families believed a college affiliated with Churches of Christ was needed in the Midwest. To honor both families for their role in establishing and sustaining the . . . — — Map (db m159938) HM
Detroit advertising executive Lou Maxon built what is now Gallaher Center in the early 1940s as a country home and location for entertaining clients and friends. Previously, the Eureka Fruit Farm operated on the site during the late 1800s. A . . . — — Map (db m160170) HM
The School Act of 1829 created the Stoney Creek School District. Fractional School No. 1 was constructed in 1848. Like one-room schoolhouses across the country, the building originally housed children of varying ages and grades, elementary through . . . — — Map (db m118923) HM
1883
First zoo in Detroit, result of bankrupt circus. Sited where Tiger Stadium once stood.
1911
First meeting of Detroit Zoological Society
1916
Royal Oak site of Detroit Zoo . . . — — Map (db m213154) HM
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