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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N92_crawford-settlement-burying-ground_Macomb-MI.html
Revolutionary War veteran John Crawford and his wife, Ann, founded this cemetery in 1837. Ornate headstones exhibit trends in funerary art over two centuries, and the German script on markers reflects the migration of European immigrants after the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N88_wolcott-mill_Ray-MI.html
Wolcott Mill is among the oldest mills in Michigan. Built in the mid-1840s by the Arad Freeman family, early Macomb County settlers. It passed through several owners before Frederick Wolcott purchased it in 1878. The Wolcott family upgraded the bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N7C_first-methodist-episcopal-church_Ray-MI.html
In 1844 the Reverend Jonathon Davis founded the Methodist Episcopal Church to serve the community of Davis, known then as the village of Brooklyn. In 1846 the congregation built the town's first church. The present one, which dates from 1895, is a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M0I_zion-church_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
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Organized on July 3, 1854, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was the first German Protestant congregation in Mount Clemens. Its founding trustees were John Rossow and Abraham Devantier from Prussia, John William Miller and Carsten Roecker…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LZO_carnegie-library_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
Mount Clemens Carnegie building was erected in 1904 and was the first Carnegie Library built in Macomb County. It is one out of 1,681 such libraries across the United States financed by Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist and philanthropist. The co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LZM_saint-marys-school_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
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In 1870 Father Camillius Maes of Saint Peter Parish erected Saint Mary's School on this lot, adjacent to the church. When the grammar school opened in that year, it was the first Catholic school in the city and in Macomb County. Three …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LYS_mount-clemens-mineral-bath-industry_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
For seven decades, Mount Clemens was internationally renowned as a mineral bath resort city. In 1865 the first well was sunk to obtain brine for salt production. Because of the high cost of separating the salt from the various other minerals and e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LYK_grace-episcopal-church_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan sent Edward Magee to Mount Clemens in 1849. The interest generated by this missionary visit culminated a year later when the Grace Episcopal congregation was formed. In December of that year Michigan's first Episc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LY8_crocker-house_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
The first mayor of Mount Clemens, Josua Dickinson, built this Italianate house in 1869. His daughter Katherine (1849-1882), the great-granddaughter of city founder Christian Clemens, and his son-in-law, George M. Crocker (1848-1918), moved into it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LY2_saint-joseph-sanitarium-and-bath-house_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
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Opened in 1899, the Saint Joseph Sanitarium and Bath House is the only building remaining from the Mount Clemens bath era. Beginning in 1870, people suffering from rheumatism, blood poisoning, diabetes and skin diseases, among other ai…