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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EZ2_kalamazoo-gazette_Kalamazoo-MI.html
Founded in 1833 as the weekly Michigan Statesman and St. Joseph Chronicle, this newspaper, edited by Henry Gilbert, followed the United States Land Office when it moved from White Pigeon to Kalamazoo in 1835. It first appeared as the Kalamazoo Gaz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EZ1_epaphroditus-ransom_Kalamazoo-MI.html
(Side One)The only resident of Kalamazoo to be elected governor of Michigan during its first 150 years, Epaphroditus Ransom lived and farmed on this site. Born in Massachusetts in 1796, Ransom came to Michigan in 1834. An attorney, he soon became …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EYZ_kalamazoo-college_Kalamazoo-MI.html
The first classroom building for the Michigan and Huron Institute, now Kalamazoo College, was erected on this site between June and September of 1836. The charter bill for the school had been introduced in the Michigan Territorial Legislative Coun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EYX_south-street-historic-district_Kalamazoo-MI.html
(Side One)This tree-lined neighborhood, today nestled between the business district and college campuses, recalls a quiet but prosperous Kalamazoo at the turn of the century. The street was platted in 1841. Its beautifully preserved houses, which …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EYW_first-baptist-church_Kalamazoo-MI.html
(Side One)Constructed in 1853, this is the oldest church building in Kalamazoo. Titus Bronson, the city's founder, donated this site on Church Square. The Baptist faith reached the Kalamazoo River Valley in 1826 when missionary Leonard Slater prea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EY5_first-united-methodist-church_Kalamazoo-MI.html
(Side One)In 1830 the Reverend James T. Robe, a young Methodist circuit rider, delivered the first sermon in the village of Bronson, later Kalamazoo, at the home of the town's founder, Titus Bronson. After his appointment to the Kalamazoo Mission …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EY4_first-womens-club-in-michigan_Kalamazoo-MI.html
This building, completed in 1879, is the first in the nation erected for the use of a women's club. The Ladies' Library Association, organized in January, 1852, grew out of a reading club started in 1844. It was the first women's club in Michigan …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17JX_stuart-neighborhood_Kalamazoo-MI.html
Wealthy merchants and businessmen, seeking an escape from the hurried life of downtown living, built this prosperous neighborhood in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Movement to the suburbs gained in popularity after the 1850s, but lack …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKAV_lincolns-august-1856-speech-in-kalamazoo_Kalamazoo-MI.html
1861 - 1865 This tablet is placed here bySarah E. Fuller - Tent No. 8Daughters of Union Veteransof the Civil WarDept. of Michigan in memory ofOrcutt Post No. 79Kalamazoo, Dept. Of Mich.Grand Army of the Republicthe veterans of the Civil WarT…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKAN_in-memoriam-u-s-s-maine_Kalamazoo-MI.html
Upper Plaque:In MemoriamU.S.S. MaineDestroyed in Havana HarborFebruary 15th, 1898This tablet is cast from metal recovered from the U.S.S. Maine Lower Plaque:Tablet secured for Richard Westnedge Camp No-16, United Spanish War Veterans by past Co…
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