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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O3T_this-boulder_Pleasant-Lake-MI.html
This boulder
marks the site where
John Batteese Berrard
built the first
Indian trading post
in
Jackson County
Erected by
Thomas Wincad
William E. Flemming
1816 — 1985
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NZ2_ed-cross-farm_Spring-Arbor-MI.html
Ed Cross and his wife, Edith, built this house, barn and granary in 1919. As a young man Cross (1863 - 1938) spent several years working as a logger in Mackinac County, eventually returning to Spring Arbor. During the last fifty years of his life …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NZ1_spring-arbor-college_Spring-Arbor-MI.html
Three Michigan institutions of higher education have had their roots here. The predecessor of Albion College, the Spring Arbor Seminary was chartered in 1835. Michigan Central College, founded in 1844, was located here until its removal in 1855 wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NYY_wellman-general-store_Horton-MI.html
This triple-brick Victorian-style structure, built in 1886 by Newton Sears and Milford Tanner, exemplifies small town midwestern general stores of the 1880s. In 1891, Ernest Wellman and his mother bought out Tanner's interest. The following year, …
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/HM1MF9_the-jackson-area_Grass-Lake-charter-Township-MI.html
Pioneers in the 1830's by the tens of thousands traveled west over the Territorial Road (roughly parallel to I-94). Many of them stopped in the Jackson area to take up land. Jackson County was named after Andrew Jackson and organized in 1832. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MF8_michigan-cental-college-residence-hall_Spring-Arbor-MI.html
This building, constructed in 1845 and pictured here in 1903, served as a residence hall of Michigan Central College. The connecting living quarters t the right were built in 1873 by Moses L. Hart, father of Rev. E.P. Hart. Moses Hart, the postmas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LGX_brooklyn-presbyterian-church_Brooklyn-MI.html
Thirteen lay members founded the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn in 1838. The Reverend C.W. Gurney became the church's first installed pastor in 1841. Dedicatory services for the church were held on October 7, 1845. Built with hand-hewn beam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LGW_brooklyns-founder_Brooklyn-MI.html
This village was founded by the Rev. Calvin Swain, who filed the first land claim on June 16, 1832. Elder Swain, who had been a chaplain in the War of 1812, was a Baptist minister and the postmaster in Adamsville, New York, before coming to Michig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LDD_huron-potawatomi-village-spring-arbor_Spring-Arbor-MI.html
Huron Potawatomi Village
As early as 1825 large numbers of Potawatomi encamped at this location. One of the most prominent Huron Potatwatomi located here was Wabkezhik (Whapcazeek), who was wounded during the 1811 Battle of Tippicanoe Creek when …