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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A8X_parrott-civil-war-cannon_Niles-MI.html
Nearly 12,000 memorial cannons were donated by the U.S. Government, between 1872 and 1916, to local Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) and other civic and patriotic groups for the purpose of display as a veterans' war memorial. They …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1854_johnson-cemetery_Niles-MI.html
John Johnson Sr. donated property for this cemetery in 1838. His son Samuel had been buried on the land in 1835. John Johnson Jr. was among the township's first white settlers. The Johnsons and many pioneers are buried here. All but 20 of the 211 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1853_morris-chapel-church_Niles-MI.html
The local Methodist Episcopal Society, the oldest Methodist society in Berrien Township, was organized in 1840. In 1846 it voted to name its church in honor of Bishop Thomas A. Morris, then the head of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Michigan. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM184L_st-josephs-mission_Niles-MI.html
Here, in 1837, in the then flourishing settlement of Bertrand, a fine brick church, dedicated to St. Joseph, was built to serve the Catholics of this area. In this church, on September 8, 1844, the habit of the Sisters of the Holy Cross was given …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1821_portage-prairie-united-methodist-church_Niles-MI.html
(Side 1)Persuaded by reports of good land from the Reverend John Seybert, Bishop of the Ohio Conference, the Jacob and David Rough families came to Portage Prairie from Pennsylvania in the spring of 1849. In 1851 they organized the Zion Evangelica…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17ZW_methodist-episcopal-church-the-old-rugged-cross_Niles-MI.html
(Obverse Side)Methodist Episcopal ChurchCircuit-riding Methodist ministers held religious services in Pokagon Township during the 1830s and 1840s. A class was organized in Sumnerville in 1840. In 1876 the Methodists purchased this building, which …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17ZT_sumnerville-mounds-sumnerville-cemetery_Niles-MI.html
(Obverse Side)Sumnerville MoundsBetween the first and fourth centuries A.D. Hopewell Indians built nine burial mounds near here. The six remaining earthen mounds reflect the Hopewellian culture, which flourished in the Eastern Woodlands of North A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17ZS_howard-township-hall_Niles-MI.html
The first white settlers located in this vicinity about 1826. The first school was held in an abandoned log cabin in the northwest part of the township in 1833. Howard Township was organized by an Act of the Territorial Legislature on March 7, 183…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17ZR_smiths-chapel_Niles-MI.html
The first Methodist church in Milton Township was organized in 1839. The following year, this church was built and named Smith's Chapel to honor Canon Smith, who had contributed generously to the construction of the church. Smith, a native of Dela…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17UU_parc-aux-vaches_Niles-MI.html
Known as Parc aux Vaches, or "cow pasture," this area was named by the French for the wild buffalo that once grazed here. Two major Indian trails crossed here: the Sauk Trail, also called the old Chicago Trail, which linked Detroit and Chicago; an…