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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLHS_clinton-grove-cemetery_Charter-Township-of-Clinton-MI.html
Established in 1855, the Clinton Grove Cemetery exhibits an exquisite array of funerary art in a wooded landscape. This combination of nature and monuments reflects the rural cemetery movement of the nineteenth century, which popularized park-like…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLG4_methodist-episcopal-church_Mt-Clemens-MI.html
When this Collegiate Gothic Church, designed by Cleveland architect Herman W. Maurer, was dedicated during the week of of January 3, 1926, the Mount Clemens Daily Leader called it a "Monument to Unity of Action." Over a century earlier, in 1820, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLBH_michigans-first-tri-level-intersection_Ferndale-MI.html
During the 1950s, as Oakland County's population soared, the corner of Eight Mile Road and Woodward Avenue became the most congested crossroad in Michigan. The solution, envisioned in a plan created by Detroit and its surrounding counties in the 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6R_fair-lane_Dearborn-MI.html
Here Henry and Clara Bryant Ford lived from 1915 until their deaths in 1947 and 1950. The eminent American auto magnate and inventor named Fair Lane after the road on which his father, William Ford, was born in County Cork, Ireland. The fifty-six …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6O_commandants-quarters_Dearborn-MI.html
This building was one of eleven built in 1833 for the United States Detroit Arsenal at Dearbornville. A walled compound, a 360 foot square, was erected to store military supplies on the frontier. Constructed of red brick in the Federal style, this…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6N_charles-a-kandt-house_Dearborn-MI.html
This house, built around 1927 by Charles and Anna Kandt, represents the foursquare, a house type popular during the early twentieth century, particularly in the teens and twenties. Charles Kandt opened a hotel in Dearborn in 1903 and engaged in ot…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKAM_spanish-war-veterans-monument_Kalamazoo-MI.html
Erected by the citizens of Kalamazoo city and county to commemorate the valor and patriotism of those who served in the war with Spain, the Philippine insurrection, and the China relief expedition.Dedicated May 30th, A.D. 1924 under the auspices o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIXQ_mary-miller-hillside_Marshall-MI.html
(Front)This house, built for local attorney Henry W. Taylor and long owned by the Schuyler family, was also home to Mary "Mazie" Miller (1871-1941) and her husband, Craig. An outspoken suffragette and Republican political activist, Miller was an e…