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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UXN_three-faced-clock-historical_Rochester-MI.html
The three-faced clock installed April 8, 1993 was provided by NBD Bank, N.A. in cooperation with the Rochester Downtown Development Authority. Its purpose is to both honor the traditions of the past and to compliment Downtown Rochester in the pres…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UWT_rochester-opera-house-historical_Rochester-MI.html
Built in 1890, the Opera House Block opened with the First National Bank and Norton Pharmacy on its ground floor. On November 7, 1890, a grand opening dance launched the upper-level opera house as Rochester's social and cultural center. Until 1933…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UUK_masonic-block-historical_Rochester-MI.html
Built in 1899-1900, the Masonic Block was designed by Edward R. Prall. The Rochester Building Association raised funds for the project. Among its leaders were William Clark Chapman, general manager of Western Knitting Mills and twentieth village p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UAO_axford-coffin-farm-historical_Oakland-charter-Township-MI.html
This complex of buildings began as the farmstead of John Axford, who built the Greek Revival house during the 1840s. Farmer Jacob Kline purchased it in 1848, and his descendants operated the farm until 1925. During the Great Depression the bank fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UAH_carriage-barn-replica-historical_Oakland-charter-Township-MI.html
This building is a replica of the original carriage barn that stood on this site. The original building was circa 1870, and was rumored to have been moved to this site in 1910. It was a two-bay timber framed building constructed of hand hewn six-b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TB2_berkley-old-village-fire-hall-historical_Berkley-MI.html
Leaders in the Berkley territory became keenly interested in becoming an incorporated village in the Spring of 1922, believing that more recognition could be received than if the district remained unincorporated. Officials advocated incorporation …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SVS_barn-church-historical_Troy-MI.html
Built by William Lakie as a dairy barn in 1912, this structure is now a church. At one time the electric interurban railway ran past this barn and picked up milk cans gathered from surrounding farms. After the Presbyterian Church purchased the bui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SR1_carver-elementary-school_Ferndale-MI.html
During the early twentieth century, many African Americans migrated north to work in Detroit's automobile factories. Increased migration during World War II prompted Royal Oak Township's Clinton School District to split into two racially segregate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SBB_white-lake-township-hall_White-Lake-charter-Township-MI.html
White Lake Township's first white settler, Harley Olmstead, came here from New York State in 1830. The township was set off in 1836. Beginning around 1837 daily stagecoaches and wagons hauling lumber traveled along the old White Lake Road, part of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PWO_troy-township_Troy-MI.html
In 1827 the Michigan Territorial Legislative Council created Troy Township. Stephen V.R. Trowbridge and Riley Crooks were elected supervisor and clerk. Township meetings were held in houses and barns until 1848 when a frame hall was built on this …
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