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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NY8_mccain-school_Jackson-MI.html
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 af…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17DG_ella-sharp-museum_Jackson-MI.html
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 their firs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11HO_st-johns-church_Jackson-MI.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11CQ_st-mary-star-of-the-sea-church_Jackson-MI.html
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 struct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11C5_under-the-oaks_Jackson-MI.html
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, 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10ZC_horace-ismon-ismon-building_Jackson-MI.html
(side a)Horace IsmonThis 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 ventures, engaging in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10ZB_st-pauls-episcopal-church_Jackson-MI.html
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 twenty-two person…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10ZA_first-state-prison_Jackson-MI.html
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 prison…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10SC_first-methodist-episcopal-church_Jackson-MI.html
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 erected in 1850.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10RO_first-congregational-church_Jackson-MI.html
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 cla…