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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20MF_sleepy-hollow_East-Lansing-MI.html
Side 1 The small depression between Beaumont Tower and the Music Practice Building, known today as Sleepy Hollow, is the last vestige of a small, spring-fed brook entering the campus from the north and draining into the Red Cedar River. The cl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20M9_botanical-laboratory_East-Lansing-MI.html
At this location, near the W.J. Beal Botanical Garden (1873), the Botanical Laboratory stood from 1879 until it burned on March 20, 1890. Watson and Arnold of Lansing designed this Gothic-inspired, wooden structure as the first botanical laborator…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20LT_w-j-beal-botanical-garden_East-Lansing-MI.html
Side 1 Botany pioneer William James Beal was born March 11, 1833 in Adrian, Michigan. Taking up teaching after earning degrees from the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago, he was named professor of botany an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y15_chief-okemos-historical_Meridian-charter-Township-MI.html
Erected to the memory of Chief Okemos of the Chippewas whose tribe once occupied the ground upon which this school now stands. * Brave in battle * Wise in council * * Honorable in peace * After his people became ravaged by disease and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LBZ_chief-okemos-okemos-village-marker_Meridian-charter-Township-MI.html
Chief Okemos Okemos was born in Shiawassee County around 1775. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Sandusky during the War of 1812 and won the respect of the Saginaw Chippewa people. Chief Okemos later signed several treaties on behalf of t…
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