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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIW1_gardner-house-museum_Albion-MI.html
Augustus P. Gardner (1817-1905), a wealthy hardware merchant, built this Victorian style house in 1975. A three-story, thirteen-room mansion with a mansard roof, it was Gardner's home until his death in 1905. In 1966, after decades of neglect, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIW0_first-presbyterian-church_Albion-MI.html
(Front)In February 1837 the Reverend Calvin Clark, a circuit riding pastor sent by the American Home Missionary Society, met with twenty-four persons and organized the Albion Presbyterian Church. The first church was built in 1840 on the corner of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII7_mothers-day-in-albion-mothers-day_Albion-MI.html
Marker Front:On May 13, 1877, the second Sunday of the month, Juliet Calhoun Blakeley stepped into the pulpit of the Methodist-Episcopal Church and completed the sermon for the Reverend Myron Daugherty. According to local legend, Daugherty was dis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII5_the-first-home_Albion-MI.html
The first house at what was then known as the "Forks of the Kalamazoo" was erected near this site by Tenney Peabody, a New Yorker. To this cabin with its thatched roof of grass from the banks of the nearby Kalamazoo River, Albion's first settler b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIGC_birthplace-of-old-rugged-cross_Albion-MI.html
"The Old Rugged Cross," one of the world's best-loved hymns, was composed here in 1912 by the Rev. George Bennard (1873-1958). The son of an Ohio coal miner, Bennard was a lifelong servant of God, chiefly in the Methodist ministry. He wrote the wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIGB_albion-college_Albion-MI.html
Methodists obtained a charter for Spring Arbor Seminary from the Territorial Council of Michigan in March, 1835. Later the institution was established in Albion on land donated by Jesse Crowell, a leading Albion pioneer and benefactor. In 1841 the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIGA_the-observatory_Albion-MI.html
The Albion College Astronomical Observatory was built in 1883-84 at the urging of Dr. Samuel Dickie, who later became president of the college. Dickie helped raise $10,000 to build and equip the facility. The observatory still harbors its original…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIG9_birthplace-of-famed-song_Albion-MI.html
It was in the spring of 1911 that two freshmen at Albion College, Byron D. Stokes and F. Dudleigh Vernor, wrote the words and music for a song they called "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi." The song made a hit with their fraternity brothers, and reque…