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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29NM_rapid-railway-company_Roseville-MI.html
Interurban service became the most successful mode of transportation
through Roseville in the early 1900s. Starting in 1895, the Rapid Railway Company ran electric interurbans along Gratiot Avenue between Detroit and Mt. Clemens, a relatively spe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29MB_a-plank-road-history_Roseville-MI.html
There had to be a better way to travel
through the countryside when Michigan was young. In the mid-1800s, the new Gratiot Turnpike between Detroit and Mt. Clemens was a swampy and rutted dirt road. To improve things, in 1846 the State of Michigan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28K5_utica-cemetery_Shelby-charter-Township-MI.html
John and Mary Stead deeded 4.46 acres of land to the Utica Cemetery Association in 1863. Included in that parcel was a section referred to as the "Old Burying Ground" and a family plot called "Stead's Reserve." The first burial occurred in 1817 up…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28K2_st-lawrence-parish-of-utica_Utica-MI.html
In May 1866 the Reverend Amandus VanDenDriessche of Detroit recited Utica's first Catholic Mass. Forty Irish families at Utica Junction (present-day Roseville) formed what became a mission of Sacred Heart Parish. On August 15, 1874, Bishop C. H. B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23HB_st-john-lutheran-church-and-schools_Fraser-MI.html
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In 1864, local residents asked Pastor Herman Lemke of East Detroit to help them organize a Lutheran church in Fraser. That same year, they built a small wood frame building on land south of 14 Mile Road. Each week after Sunday service, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23CU_fire-apparatus-bell_Fraser-MI.html
The forest fire apparatus bell in America appeared in 1803 on a hose wagon owned by the Philadelphia Hose Company No. 1. A spring-operated clapper rang the bell as the wheels turned, and acted as the warning device. Fire engines to this day are st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BX_the-baumgartner-house-1875_Fraser-MI.html
This was the home of John & Samantha Baumgartner. John came to America from Bavaria. The beauty of this house is in its architecture, "Rundbogenstil", or "Round arched windows". The style was popular in Germany between 1840 and 1850. German immigr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23AR_baumgartner-house_Fraser-MI.html
A native of Bavaria, John Baumgartner purchased this property in Erin Township in 1856, becoming one of Fraser's first landowners. Around 1866 he and his wife, Samantha, moved here with the first three of their seven children. In 1875 they erected…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23A6_erin-united-presbyterian-church_Roseville-MI.html
Under the leadership of the Reverend Harry N. Bissell of Mount Clemens, several families organized the First Presbyterian Church of Erin in 1860. The original thirteen members held their first services in a small schoolhouse. They were the first c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM238A_sacred-heart-church_Roseville-MI.html
On June 1, 1861, the Reverend Amandus Van Den Driessche, from the Detroit Diocese, helped establish a Catholic mission at Utica Junction (now Roseville). The Sacred Heart mission, composed of Irish, German, Belgian and French families, completed i…