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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y3C_hog-house-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
[lat N42 11.938 lon W083 44.420]
This structure contained a number of small pens, each just large enough for housing a sow (mother hog) and her piglets. Once the baby pigs had grown to such size and strength that they needed more space and could …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y3B_upper-level-of-the-barn-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
[lat N42 11.937 lon W083 44.442]
The front ramp leads to the portion of the barn that related to the Farm Yard; the lower section is part of the Barn Yard. The upper portion was used to store straw and hay, to thresh oats and/or wheat, and to sto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y1O_pump-house-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
[lat N42 11.965 lon W083 44.435]
The Pump House is the small, square, one-story structure. The two-story garage and apartment was attached to the Pump House when the garage and apartment were constructed in the 1950s. The well under the Pump Hous…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y1N_lower-level-of-the-barn-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
[lat N42 11.929 lon W083 44.436]
Here cattle would have been gathered for shelter from the severe winter cold. Later, when the farm established a small dairy enterprise, Jersey cows would have been brought here from the pasture to await their tur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y1M_ice-house-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
[lat N42 11.957 lon W083 44.436]
While this was used as the ice house for many years, this structure may have been one of the first buildings built on the farm. At one time it had a lean-to addition attached to the west side. According to Sutherl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y1E_sutherland-wilson-farm-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
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In the 1850s, Langford (1802-1865) and Lydia (1806-1892) Sutherland replaced their small log cabin with this Greek Revival house. Farm buildings from that era were built from locally harvested hand-hewn timber and hand-cut stones gathered …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XLJ_the-thompson-building-historical_Ypsilanti-MI.html
This building's history is one of the most fascinating in Depot Town. It was built with bricks brought from Mark Norris' Western Hotel which was previously destroyed by fire. The Thompson Building opened in 1861 just as the first shots of the Civi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XKW_ypsilanti-woolen-mill-company-historical_Ypsilanti-MI.html
In 1827, a sawmill was built on the Huron River just south of Forest Avenue. Later a grist mill was built on the site and finally in 1839, the Eagle Flouring Mill was constructed there. It burned in 1856.
In the early 1860s, the Ypsilanti Woole…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XKM_early-days-in-depot-town-historical_Ypsilanti-MI.html
In the 1840s and 1850s, the community that grew up around the depot was known by the old-timers as the "East Side." A rivalry over business development in Ypsilanti between East side and the West side, the dividing line being the Huron River, was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X6I_earhart-manor-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
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Michigan pioneer Elnathan Botsford settled this site in 1825. Harry Boyd Earhart of Detroit, president of the White Star Refining Corporation, purchased the farm in 1917 and named it "The Meadows." The Olmsted Brothers, nationally known la…