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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VC9_haven-hill-farm-historical_White-Lake-charter-Township-MI.html
An expression of deep respect for the land,
this complex was called the Farm Group Buildings. Edsel Ford learned from his father Henry Ford who wrote in 1932 that "with one foot in industry and another foot in the land, human society is firmly ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VC6_haven-hill-carriage-house-historical_White-Lake-charter-Township-MI.html
It was a garage and a playhouse.
The Carriage House was planned to be the chauffeur's home and to shelter Ford family vehicles. But the chauffeur moved into the Lodge, and the Carriage House became a playhouse for the Ford children — Henry …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VBK_haven-hill-lodge-historical_White-Lake-charter-Township-MI.html
It was an expression of new wealth and mobility
created by the early automobile industry. Twenty years after his father founded Ford Motor Company in 1903, Edsel Ford began buying the hilly property that became his family's rural retreat at Have…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VAU_edsel-fords-leadership-historical_White-Lake-charter-Township-MI.html
He was a man of vision and achievement,
and he called Haven Hill his "nerve retreat," his restful refuge. The only child of Henry and Clara Ford, Edsel Ford was born in 1893 and became the youngest president of Ford Motor Company in 1919. Despite…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VAF_the-haven-hill-getaway-historical_White-Lake-charter-Township-MI.html
They came from around the world.
In the early 1920s, "weekend jaunts" in automobiles and on new roads brought day travelers to this countryside like never before, and also brought prominent people from around the world. The world of Edsel Ford in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VAB_haven-hill-gatehouse-historical_White-Lake-charter-Township-MI.html
The Gatehouse was the formal entryway
into the 2,422 acre Haven Hill Estate, Edsel Ford's chosen "weekend getaway." While Edsel gathered property for his country estate in the 1920s, Packard Motor Car Company and General Motors bought large parce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V9Y_genevieve-gillette-historical_White-Lake-charter-Township-MI.html
Michigan state parks welcomed the newly-mobile drivers
of automobiles in the early 1900s. Genevieve Gillette made it her life's work to preserve precious natural settings and make them available to the travelling public. In 1920 she began her lan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SBB_white-lake-township-hall_White-Lake-charter-Township-MI.html
White Lake Township's first white settler, Harley Olmstead, came here from New York State in 1830. The township was set off in 1836. Beginning around 1837 daily stagecoaches and wagons hauling lumber traveled along the old White Lake Road, part of…