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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM203U_red-run_Warren-MI.html
Only 10 miles from French Fort Detroit (1701), it took 100 years before settlers reached Warren. The Red Run, a branch of the Clinton River was the means that the fur traders and early pioneers followed by canoe.
The Red Run provided the pathwa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM203T_red-run_Warren-MI.html
Only 10 miles from French Fort Detroit (1701), it took 100 years before settlers reached Warren. The Red Run, a branch of the Clinton River was the means that the fur traders and early pioneers followed by canoe.
The Red Run provided the pathwa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM202I_st-paul-united-church-of-christ_Warren-MI.html
About 1850 a small group, representing the Warren Township Outpost of St. Peter's Evangelical Church of Halfway, met in the old Methodist Church across Mound Road. In 1864 they organized as St. Paul Evangelical Church. This sanctuary was built in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM202H_the-flynn-house_Warren-MI.html
This large frame house was built in 1865 by a family named Jones. In 1889, Dr. Flynn bought it and his family continued to live here until 1951.
Dr. John C. Flynn, born in New York in 1850, came to the Warren Village in 1880 and was the only do…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM202F_grist-mill_Warren-MI.html
This is the site of the old Grist Mill built by John and Dave Wilson in the late 1890's. In 1911 A.V. Church bought the Mill and later sold it to the Farm Bureau. In 1922 a group of Farm Bureau members organized the Co Operative Co. and the Warren…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM201I_the-hoard-house_Warren-MI.html
Gurton Hoard built the original frame building as a hotel in 1889, since this area was a days buggy ride from the Utica area to Detroit. The house also served as the location of the first village meeting place. After Mr. Hoards death the house ser…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XO6_milk-river-settlement-historical_Saint-Clair-Shores-MI.html
The strip of land at the mouth of the Milk River was named Pointe a Guignolet for a grape-link berry that the French fermented into brandy. It later became known as Gaukler Point. The 1702 map of Lac Sainte Claire, attributed to Detroit founder An…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XNQ_blossom-heath-inn-historical_Saint-Clair-Shores-MI.html
Matthew Kramer, a hotelier and yachtsman, built this roadhouse in 1911, naming it the Kramerhof. In 1920 the building was sold to William McIntosh, who renamed it the Blossom Heath Inn and added two large wings, which included an ornate ballroom. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XNP_shore-line-interurban-railway-historical_Saint-Clair-Shores-MI.html
The Detroit, Lake Shore, and Mt. Clemens Railway, also known as the Shore Line, began interurban rail service on September 28, 1898. The twenty-six mile route from Detroit followed Jefferson Avenue through Grosse Pointe and St. Clair Shores to Cro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XN4_selinsky-green-log-house-historical_Saint-Clair-Shores-MI.html
In 1868, when this area was covered with small farms, Prussian immigrants John and Mary Selinsky bought farm land in Erin Township and built this salt-box house using solid log construction covered with clapboard. The Selinskys gave the house to t…