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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14WM_salem-church_Manchester-MI.html
The Reverend Edward Weiss, a Washtenaw County circuit rider, organized an Evangelical class of fifteen members in 1874. They met in a school located two miles east of here. Two years later, trustees Herman Gieske, Lambert Gieske and Bernhardt Kuhl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11HN_north-lake-methodist-church_Chelsea-MI.html
The Reverend Charles Glenn organized the first Methodist class here in 1836, and for the next ten years the group met in the home of his brother, John. In 1846 the brothers presented the congregation with a building which served as both church and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11GV_bethel-church_Manchester-MI.html
(side 1)In 1840 the Reverend Frederich Schmid of Ann Arbor organized the Evangelical German Bethel Congregation in Freedom Township. Schmid, a missionary pastor originally from Basil, Switzerland, frequently traveled to the township and held servi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1150_st-joseph-catholic-church_Dexter-MI.html
The Catholic church in this village dates back to 1840 with Fathers Cullen, Hennesy and Pulsers serving the predominantly Irish parishioners for nearly thirty years. The present brick edifice, completed in 1874, is an example of simple Gothic styl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM114B_dexter-depot-track-pans_Dexter-MI.html
Dexter DepotThe Michigan Central Railroad reached Dexter from Detroit on July 4, 1841, just after Dexter's first depot was completed. Frederick H. Spier of Detroit designed the present depot, which was completed in record time. Work began on Novem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10MY_first-congregational-church_Chelsea-MI.html
Vermont Congregationalists organized a church in Sylvan Township in 1849. In 1852 the built the first church in the village, here on land donated by Chelsea founder Elisha Congdon. When that building burned in 1894, John Foster of Chelsea built th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10MG_the-welfare-building_Chelsea-MI.html
The Welfare Building was constructed in 1906 as a recreation facility for the workers of the Glazier Stove Company. It featured a swimming pool, a billiard hall, a basketball court, a theatre and a reading room. Chelsea native Frank P. Glazier, wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10ME_chelsea-chelsea-depot_Chelsea-MI.html
(side 1)ChelseaIn the 1830s the Congdon brothers, Elisha and James, settled the land where Chelsea is located. In 1848 they offered the Michigan Central Railroad a free site on which to build a station. The first and succeeding structures were fre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1047_dexter-area-civil-war-memorial_Dexter-MI.html
Erected by the citizens of Dexter and vicinity, in memory of the heroes who fought and the martyrs who died that the republic might live.
Dedicated May 30, 1898
1861-1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYXA_michigan-central-railroad-depot_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
Built in 1886, and conceived by Frederick Spier, the design of this granite block building was influenced by the Romanesque style of the great American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. The massive arch and two-foot thick walls are balanced by si…