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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AXG_delano-homestead_Cooper-Charter-Township-MI.html
William Smith DeLano (1819-1901) was a southwestern Michigan pioneer settler. He built this modest Greek Revival style house in 1858. A native of western New York State, DeLano came to the area with an uncle in 1837. He first worked clearing farms…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AXD_cooper-congregational-church_Cooper-Charter-Township-MI.html
(Side One)In 1843 the Reverends Mason Knappen and Ova Hoyt organized the Cooper Congregational Church with families from New York and Vermont. Church founders included Laura Blanchard, John and Betsy Borden, Mace, Nancy and John Borden, Matilda De…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AX0_the-kalamazoo-region_Galesburg-MI.html
Kalamazoo is an Indian word said to mean "boiling water." Originally it was applied to the river that flows northwesterly to Lake Michigan. A trickle of settlers in the late 1820's became a torrent in the 1830's as the region's fertile prairies, o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF93_harris-family_Oshtemo-MI.html
Among the earliest pioneers of Oshtemo Township was a Black family, that of Enoch and Deborah Harris. Born in the East in the late 1700's, they settled in the Ohio wilderness about 1810. Moving westward with the advancing frontier, they claimed la…