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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z3T_professional-baseball-in-adrian_Adrian-MI.html
Adrian got to experience professional baseball in 1894 when the Adrian Light Guard baseball team was formed to play in the Michigan Baseball League. Although the league lasted only one year, Adrian fielded great players such as star pitcher and Pa…
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Frank Navin was the most famous Adrian native involved in professional baseball in his day. Born in Adrian in 1871, Navin went to Detroit in 1889, where he worked as a bookkeeper. He eventually became the right-hand man to Sanuel F. Angus, the fir…
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Thomas Cooley was the greatest lawyer and judge ever to come out of Lenawee County and is generally considered the finest legal mind Michigan produced during the nineteenth century. During the 1840s and 1850s, Cooley partnered with several local l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z0T_spirit-of-cooperation_Adrian-MI.html
The Adrian Kiwanis Club and the City of Adrian have a rich history of working together to make Adrian a better community. With the assistance of the City in site selection, and through significant public support, the Kiwanis Riverview Terrace, a h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YZT_history-of-kiwanis-trail-and-trestle-park_Adrian-MI.html
Early in 1974, with much foresight, the City of Adrian adopted a Land Use Plan that called for the acquisition of all river bank property between Riverside and Island Parks. The goal was to connect the two major city parks with a walkway. A major …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YY8_history-of-the-adrian-kiwanis-club_Adrian-MI.html
The Adrian Kiwanis Club was begun in 1940, some 35 years after Kiwanis was founded in Detroit. The Adrian club was chartered by the Hillsdale Kiwanis Club and Charter Night was September 25, 1940 with an initial membership of 34. The purpose of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YY4_the-first-house-built-in-adrian-marker_Adrian-MI.html
This tablet marks the site of the first house built in Adrian in 1826 by Addison J. Comstock founder of the city.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YXH_adrians-governors_Adrian-MI.html
William Greenly was born in New York and came to Adrian in 1836. He became a lawyer and in 1838 was elected a state senator on the Democratic ticket. In 1846 Greenly was elected lieutenant governor. When Governor Alpheus Felch resigned a year late…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y63_laura-smith-haviland_Adrian-MI.html
Front Side Erected by the Adrian Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Haviland Memorial Association "I was thirsty and ye gave me drink." Matthew XXV 35 Left Side A tribute to a life consecrated to the betterment of humanity. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y5N_the-antislavery-underground-railroad-movement_Adrian-MI.html
What was the Underground Railroad? The Underground Railroad existed from around 1830 to the Civil War (1860). It was a secret (underground) network of people organized on Moral grounds to help slaves travel to Canada to find freedom from the slav…
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