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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LWR_moravian-road_Charter-Township-of-Clinton-MI.html
In 1782 marauding American militia massacred nearly one hundred Christian Delaware Indians at their village in eastern Ohio. Seeking refuge, the Delaware settled on the Clinton River two and one-half miles north of here, on land granted by the Chi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I64_upton-house_Sterling-Heights-MI.html
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Constructed in 1866-67, the William Upton House is one of the oldest surviving nineteenth-century brick dwellings in Sterling Heights. Italianate in style, the house features a reconstructed open porch topped by a second story balustrade, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HSY_bunert-weier-farm_Warren-MI.html
Gottlieb and Susan Bunert bought the 80 acre farm in 1849. They built a log cabin, dug a well and started to farm.
Their daughter's (Wilhelmine) diary stated the brick house was built in 1876, barn in 1883 and the carriage garage in 1892. Warre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H3T_warren-township-district-no-4-school_Warren-MI.html
This building was commonly names Bunert School, for August and Mine Bunert, who sold land to Warren School District No. 4 in January 1875. The school was built later that year on the northeast cornet of the intersection of Bunert and Martin roads.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A9W_gillett-beer-farm_Warren-MI.html
Peter & Sally Gillett moved to Warren Township from New York in 1832, buying 82 acres of land from the government. Part of the current house was built before 1840. Peter sold a portion of land to the First Methodist Episcopal Church in 1845 as a b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A9V_norman-j-halmich-park_Warren-MI.html
After their immigration from Germany to America in 1851, the Halmich family owned several farms in and around Warren.
The largest portion of what is now Halmich Park was a cattle farm owned by the Charles Halmich family. The property was sold t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A9U_warren-union-cemetery_Warren-MI.html
In 1845 pioneer farmer Peter Gillete sold a parcel of land to eighteen families for use a burial ground. The Warren Union Cemetery Association was organized in 1852 to maintain the cemetery, which consists of two and one-quarter acres. Some of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMVD_holcombe-beach_Sterling-Heights-MI.html
Near this site in 1961 archaeologists from the Aboriginal Research Club and the University of Michigan uncovered evidence of an early Paleo-Indian settlement. Here about 11,000 years ago these first prehistoric dwellers in the Great Lakes region i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMQ2_ray-township-district-no-1-school_Ray-MI.html
In 1863, Ray area farmers built what became known popularly as Mill School. Kindergarten through eighth grade students attended school here until 1953. That year the school district consolidated with Romeo School District and it transferred the pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMQ1_religious-society-church_Ray-MI.html
The First Religious Society of Ray organized in 1869 and built this church on land donated by Arad Freeman, a member of Ray's founding families. Known for a time as the Ray Union Church, it originally had a steeple, and was similar in design to th…