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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZSL_spicer-barn_Farmington-Hills-MI.html
Built c. 1880
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZSK_lemuel-botsford-house_Farmington-Hills-MI.html
Lemuel and Lucy Botsford were Quakers. From Salisbury, Connecticut, they moved to Lyons, New York, and in 1836 to Farmington's Quaker settlement. In 1837 the Botsfords built this Greek Revival house on what became known as Botsford Hill. The house…
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This Federalist Revival House was designed by talented architect Marcus Burrowes for Kirby White, an executive of Ferry Morse Seed Company. In the 1930s Ferry Morse was the largest seed company in the world. This house is considered the work of a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZSI_gray-spicer-house_Farmington-Hills-MI.html
Built in 1926
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZSH_goodenough-spicer-stable_Farmington-Hills-MI.html
Built c. 1918
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YR8_the-old-mill_Farmington-Hills-MI.html
Water power! Before the advent of the steam engine, water provided the energy needed to run mills for grinding the grain into flour for our ancestor's table and to cut the lumber for their homes. In the early 1800's this middle branch of the Rouge…
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This centennial business marked its 100th year in 1993. In 1893 Francis J. McCabe purchased the Detroit funeral home of Frank Gibb at Cass and Grand River. In 1902 he moved to Canfield and Grand River, again moving in 1904 to Hudson and Grand Rive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YQJ_sleepy-hollow_Farmington-Hills-MI.html
Three mills and a small village, including a cooper's shop, a soap factory, a shoemaker's shop, a slaughterhouse and a tannery comprised Sleepy Hollow in the 1830's. In 1827 a grist mill was built on this spot along this rapidly flowing branch of …
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Architect Marcus Burrowes designed this lovely home in 1925 for David and Martha Gray. Burrowes selected the site and built the house to blend with the land, yet retain an historic English architectural form. The Grays never lived in the house.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFT_the-stuart-little-pond_Farmington-Hills-MI.html
In the spring of 1953, Eleanor Olney Spicer age 12 was walking her dog, a toy Manchester terrier named Stuart Little, after the children's book, Stuart Little by E.B. White. Suddenly Stuart noticed a small animal and chased it into a drainpipe and…
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