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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LKP_city-of-farmington_Farmington-MI.html
Buildings and sites of historic interest 1. First Post Office, 1825 (23925 Farmington Road) 2. Approximate site of first school, 1826 3. Site of first saw mill, 1826 4. Oldest frame house in Farmington, 1824 5. Site of first tavern, 1834 6…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFQ_the-walker-wixom-tavern_Farmington-MI.html
The first country inn in Farmington was the log home of Solomon Walker, opened in 1827. A gala celebration was held there for New Year's Eve 1828, followed by the first Township meeting in 1829. East of his log house Walker built a Greek Revival f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IJI_spicer-house_Farmington-Hills-MI.html
Architect Marcus Burrowes designed this lovely home in 1925 for David and Martha Gray. Burrowes selected the site and built the house to blend with the land, yet retain an historic English architectural form. The Grays never lived in the house.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IG2_phelps-saw-mill-and-distillery_Milford-Township-MI.html
Circa 1836, Aaron Phelps, Milford's first postmaster and the man who platted north Milford, built a saw mill and a distillery here, at the foot of the lower mill pond. The distillery became a carding mill in 1848, but the other mill, used for man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HRS_wells-brothers-foundry_Milford-Township-MI.html
In 1865 Philip F. and D. Webster Wells moved their foundry, then called the Milford Furnace, from North Main Street to this site after experiencing problems with the water power at the former site (a water power their father had developed). Their …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HPP_the-village-of-highland-station_Highland-Township-MI.html
In 1872 Almon Ruggles and Germain St. John platted the village of Highland Centre beside the new railroad. They named two streets after themselves, while a third honored late Governor Henry H. Crapo. The Crapo family was active in the Flint & Pere…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HA5_howarth-school_Orion-Township-MI.html
John Howarth provided the land on which this Greek Revival schoolhouse was built in 1859. The building served the community as a place of worship for the Howarth United Methodist Church and as an Oakland County school. The Methodists moved to a ne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H49_seymour-lake-methodist-episcopal-church_Brandon-Township-MI.html
The local Methodist society, organized in 1837 at the house of Joseph Shurter, met in residences and schoolhouses for nearly four decades. In 1871, Irene Gibbs donated this land for its use. The church's cornerstone was laid on May 29, 1874. Lumbe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AL6_the-academy-of-the-sacred-heart_Bloomfield-Hills-MI.html
Responding to a request from the Antoine Beaubien family, five religious of the French order of the Sacred Heart came from New York to Detroit in 1851. The religious opened a school on Jefferson Avenue in June of that year with ten day students an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AHA_the-kresge-foundation_Troy-MI.html
Sebastion Spering Kresge established this foundation in 1924 on the 25th anniversary of the company he organized in Detroit. The foundation's sole donor, he remained chairman of the board until retiring in 1966, shortly before his death. Grants of…
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