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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21X8_orson-quackenbush_Brighton-MI.html
Orson Quakenbush played a key role in establishing Brighton as a viable rural community with the downtown construction of his dam and grist mill on Ore Creek in 1838. The flowing water of Ore Creek would turn a water wheel that rotated a grindston…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21WQ_pipp-children-fishing_Brighton-MI.html
Amelia and Benjamin Pipp lived near the Millpond. Their summer activities were swimming and fishing which was common for all kids. Placing worms on their hooks and awaiting the first hit of the "big" fish was their challenge. Their talents were ob…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21VV_railroad-repair-gang_Brighton-MI.html
The iron horse arrived in Brighton in 1871. Brighton's future growth and success was off to a good start with this new transportation service running through town. The railroad depot was built about 600 feet beyond this artwork. The push-pull hand…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21VF_john-mckinney_Brighton-MI.html
John McKinney arrived in Brighton in the 1850s as an escaped slave who most likely survived the dangers of hidden travel with the families who operated the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad helped Southern slaves escape to the North a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM219V_alice-jolly_Brighton-MI.html
Alice and her husband, George, ran one of Brighton's hat shops for ladies in the late 1800s. Alice Jolly became the sole proprietor of the Jolly Millinery Shop in 1893 with the death of her husband at age 49. THis was necessitated since she had tw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2199_daniel-marsh_Brighton-MI.html
Daniel Marsh was elected as the first President of the new Village of Brighton. He arrived in Brighton in 1839 and was this small town's first attorney and the first prosecuting attorney in Livingston County. He married the widow Sara Maltby who a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM218F_duke-the-hereford_Brighton-MI.html
Duke was raised to provide beef. Herefords are brown and white and could be found in the 1870s. Sometimes cattle and cows were found in the Old Village Cemetery eating grass. These animals apparently left the safety of their pen in search of food.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM218C_alvira-gilluly_Brighton-MI.html
Alvira and her husband, John, lived on Hamburg Road, south of Brighton with their two girls, Carrie and Lucy. John taught school in the Village of Brighton before being admitted to the University of Michigan Law School in the late 1850s. He practi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM217X_b-t-o-clark_Brighton-MI.html
Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk Clark was an infant when his family came to Brighton in 1837 just after the tiny town of Ore Creek was renamed. His father, Reverend William A. Clark held the first regular religious services in the community and donat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM217Q_st-pauls_Brighton-MI.html
When the Reverend William A. Clark, D. D., purchased his land in Brighton Township, he set aside an acre as a church site and established a cemetery near it. In 1837 he organized an Episcopal group and conducted its first services in his orchard. …