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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28M4_the-mill_Williamston-MI.html
In early times, communities grew up around mills, particularly sawmills and grist mills. Settlers needed to make regular trips to grist mills in order to convert their grain crops into flour or meal for their families, livestock and sale. Other bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28LV_the-bridge_Williamston-MI.html
1842: The wooden bridge Though no records exist of Williamston's first bridge, there must have been bridges to move supplies and traffic between the mills and farms on the north side. One entering our Village from the north, will not fail to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20BA_williamston-center-united-methodist-church_Williamston-MI.html
The Williamston Center United Methodist Church is the out-growth of a Methodist class that met in a local schoolhouse before this structure was completed. On November 5, 1877, members of the congregation pledged money to build this church. Merrit …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LC0_grand-river-trail_Williamston-MI.html
The old Grand River Indian Trail, now US-16, became a plank road in 1848. A toll gate and Red Bridge Post Office were located here. Nearby were homes of John Mullett, pioneer surveyor, and John Forester, explorer, north Michigan mine pioneer. Mich…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8R_saint-mary-parish_Williamston-MI.html
(Side 1) Beginning in the 1850s, Williamston Catholics worshipped with visiting priests. They often traveled ten miles by carriage or horseback on rutted, muddy roads to Saint Patrick Church in Woodhull (present-day Shaftsburg) to worship with Fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L6Y_downtown-historic-district_Williamston-MI.html
(Side 1) Williamston grew where two Native American trails crossed. In 1834, settlers Hiram and Joseph Putnam built the north-south road that became Putnam Street. Construction of the Grand River Turnpike from Detroit to Grand Rapids in 1851 crea…
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