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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NIL_millstones_Ray-MI.html
These stones were used in this mill from the time it opened in 1847 until 1890 when they were replaced by roller mills. These comprise one set, or "run", of stones with a bottom stationary stone ("bedstone") and a top, rotating stone ("runner"). A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N88_wolcott-mill_Ray-MI.html
Wolcott Mill is among the oldest mills in Michigan. Built in the mid-1840s by the Arad Freeman family, early Macomb County settlers. It passed through several owners before Frederick Wolcott purchased it in 1878. The Wolcott family upgraded the bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N7C_first-methodist-episcopal-church_Ray-MI.html
In 1844 the Reverend Jonathon Davis founded the Methodist Episcopal Church to serve the community of Davis, known then as the village of Brooklyn. In 1846 the congregation built the town's first church. The present one, which dates from 1895, is a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMQ2_ray-township-district-no-1-school_Ray-MI.html
In 1863, Ray area farmers built what became known popularly as Mill School. Kindergarten through eighth grade students attended school here until 1953. That year the school district consolidated with Romeo School District and it transferred the pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMQ1_religious-society-church_Ray-MI.html
The First Religious Society of Ray organized in 1869 and built this church on land donated by Arad Freeman, a member of Ray's founding families. Known for a time as the Ray Union Church, it originally had a steeple, and was similar in design to th…