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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C50_st-peters-evangelical-lutheran-church_Eastpointe-MI.html
Erin Township's German immigrants first worshipped together in a log church amid an oak forest in 1846. The following year the Reverend John Friedrich Winkler helped organize St. Peter's church as a "country church" near Detroit. This is the third…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C4P_immanuel-methodist-episcopal-church_Eastpointe-MI.html
German immigrants began organizing Methodist churches in Michigan in 1846. In 1849 a small group founded the Immanuel Methodist Church in Roseville to serve Detroit's northeast side. In 1933, when the Roseville church was razed to widen Gratiot Av…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C1G_heritage-acres_New-Baltimore-MI.html
The Trinity Museum was originally established in 1964.
It was designed as a general store and its intent was to represent the general stores in Chesterfield Township during the period 1880 - 1930.
With time, the historical vision of Bernard an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BM1_steam-engines-a-brief-history_Richmond-MI.html
Horse drawn steam fire engines first appeared in the United States in the early 1850's. The steamers pumped 500 to 1,000 gallons of water per minute. They weighed as much as ten tons using three horses to pull them.
Along with the steamers came…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BM0_john-donley-farm_Richmond-MI.html
During the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, a million people fled their homeland. Most came to America. Among them was 22 year old John Donley of Ballyporeen, County Tipperary. He landed in New York City in 1848.
John leased and later bought a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLZ_richmond-center-for-the-performing-arts_Richmond-MI.html
Built in 1887, this structure formerly served as the First Congregational Church. When the congregation merged with St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1973, it sold the building to the Richmond Community Theatre. That group adapted the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BLY_sanford-stone-weller-house_Richmond-MI.html
Sanford Stone
Sanford Stone (1828-1888) came to Richmond in 1843. In 1875 he platted "Sanford M. Stone's Addition to the village of Richmond," which included Jefferson and Washington Streets between Ferguson and Beebe. Stone held many public offi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BIS_helen-starkweather_Romeo-MI.html
A lifelong resident of the Village of Romeo and art instructor in our local schools, Helen bequeathed her home to the community to be used as an art and historical center "dedicated to promoting and fostering an appreciation of local art and artis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BHJ_the-village-park_Romeo-MI.html
During the 1820's and 1830's pioneers from New York state and New England brought their cultural heritage to this community *** They and later settlers built homes and other structures of architectural distinction which qualified Romeo to be decla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BHB_from-the-foundry-fires_Romeo-MI.html
Romeo's foundry industry was well-established
when Lyman Holmes contacted Ford Motor Company in 1907. Ford was having problems getting engine parts for the Model N automobile from foundries in Detroit. Holmes managed the Romeo Foundry, that earli…