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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LQL_benton-harbor-fruit-market_Benton-Harbor-MI.html
Relocated and constructed on this site 1967-1968 by authority of Benton Harbor City Commission, as of June 20, 1968.
This agricultural marketing facility was originally created by the city of Benton Harbor in 1870 at its original locati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JQ4_the-historic-district-of-marys-city-of-david_Benton-Harbor-MI.html
Officially beginning on 14 March, 1930, Mary Purnell's reorganization of the Israelite House of David began in a very humble fashion on newly acquired properties along Britain and Eastman Avenues. With four agricultural properties, an unfinished a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM181F_the-fruit-belt_Benton-Harbor-MI.html
Because of Lake Michigan's moderating effect, a narrow coastal strip from Indiana to Grand Traverse Bay, 300 miles north, is blessed by a climate uniquely suited to fruit growing. This fact was observed by the 1840's when peaches already were bein…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM181C_israelite-house-of-david-marys-city-of-david_Benton-Harbor-MI.html
(Obverse Side)Israelite House of DavidBased on the teachings of the Christian Israelite tradition begun by Joanna Southcott in England in 1792. Benjamin and Mary Purnell founded the House of David communal religious community in Benton Harbor in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTFT_the-morton-house_Benton-Harbor-MI.html
This house built in 1849, by Eleazar Morton and his son Henry, was occupied until 1936 by four generations of Mortons. The oak-framed barn was built in 1840. Members of the Morton family, pioneers in this area, were prominent in Benton Harbor's ea…