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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWF_royal-oak-methodist-episcopal-church_Royal-Oak-MI.html
On May 3, 1918, the Royal Oak Tribune boasted that, "architecturally and artistically," the new Methodist Episcopal Church was "the achievement of a master mind." William E. N. Hunter, a Detroit architect and Methodist who designed many Protestant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWE_fred-a-baker-house_Huntington-Woods-MI.html
In 1890, Fred A. Baker, an attorney and former state legislator, purchased 320 acres of land in Royal Oak Township. He developed the land into the Black Meadow Dairy Farm, one of the area's largest dairies. This Colonial Revival house was built in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMVE_ferndale-school_Ferndale-MI.html
Constructed in 1915
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM1Q_roseland-park-mausoleum_Berkley-MI.html
The Roseland Park Mausoleum was the largest public mausoleum in the United States when it was dedicated in 1914. Designed by Detroit architect Louis Kamper (1861-1953), the classically inspired, two-story building contains 1,300 crypts. Before des…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM15_dr-firman-w-clawson-homestead-site_Royal-Oak-MI.html
On this site stood the old homestead of Dr. Firman W. Clawson the original owner & subdivider of Northwood "the Homesite Beautiful"Planned & plantedA.D. 1900
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM14_indian-trail_Royal-Oak-MI.html
This depressed path, northwest across the Almon Starr land, is the last visible remnant of a trail worn by the feet of Indians and the hoofs of their horses traveling between Detroit and Saginaw until the mid 1800s.The children of the American Rev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM13_saginaw-trail-john-almon-starr-house_Royal-Oak-MI.html
Saginaw TrailThe Saginaw Trail, running from Detroit to Saginaw through Pontiac and Flint, was originally an Indian trail. In 1816 Michigan territorial government authorized the building of a road from Detroit to Saginaw along the trail. Part of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM0E_orson-starr-home_Royal-Oak-MI.html
Orson Starr (1803-1873) and his wife, Rhoda Gibbs Starr, (1806-1853) built this home in 1845. Five generations of the Starr family lived here until 1964. The house was purchased by the city of Royal Oak in 1976. Orson Starr came to this area in 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLOM_the-royal-oak_Royal-Oak-MI.html
Near this spot stood the oak tree named by General Cass "The Royal Oak" from which Royal Oak Township received its name.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLBH_michigans-first-tri-level-intersection_Ferndale-MI.html
During the 1950s, as Oakland County's population soared, the corner of Eight Mile Road and Woodward Avenue became the most congested crossroad in Michigan. The solution, envisioned in a plan created by Detroit and its surrounding counties in the 1…
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