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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M0I_zion-church_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
Side 1 Organized on July 3, 1854, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was the first German Protestant congregation in Mount Clemens. Its founding trustees were John Rossow and Abraham Devantier from Prussia, John William Miller and Carsten Roecker…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LZO_carnegie-library_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
Mount Clemens Carnegie building was erected in 1904 and was the first Carnegie Library built in Macomb County. It is one out of 1,681 such libraries across the United States financed by Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist and philanthropist. The co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LZM_saint-marys-school_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
(Side 1) In 1870 Father Camillius Maes of Saint Peter Parish erected Saint Mary's School on this lot, adjacent to the church. When the grammar school opened in that year, it was the first Catholic school in the city and in Macomb County. Three …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LYS_mount-clemens-mineral-bath-industry_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
For seven decades, Mount Clemens was internationally renowned as a mineral bath resort city. In 1865 the first well was sunk to obtain brine for salt production. Because of the high cost of separating the salt from the various other minerals and e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LYK_grace-episcopal-church_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan sent Edward Magee to Mount Clemens in 1849. The interest generated by this missionary visit culminated a year later when the Grace Episcopal congregation was formed. In December of that year Michigan's first Episc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LY8_crocker-house_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
The first mayor of Mount Clemens, Josua Dickinson, built this Italianate house in 1869. His daughter Katherine (1849-1882), the great-granddaughter of city founder Christian Clemens, and his son-in-law, George M. Crocker (1848-1918), moved into it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LY2_saint-joseph-sanitarium-and-bath-house_Mount-Clemens-MI.html
(Side 1) Opened in 1899, the Saint Joseph Sanitarium and Bath House is the only building remaining from the Mount Clemens bath era. Beginning in 1870, people suffering from rheumatism, blood poisoning, diabetes and skin diseases, among other ai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLG4_methodist-episcopal-church_Mt-Clemens-MI.html
When this Collegiate Gothic Church, designed by Cleveland architect Herman W. Maurer, was dedicated during the week of of January 3, 1926, the Mount Clemens Daily Leader called it a "Monument to Unity of Action." Over a century earlier, in 1820, t…
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