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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TCM_reverend-john-d-pierce-historical_Ypsilanti-MI.html
This boulder marks the site of the house where Reverend John D. Pierce, founder of the public school system in Michigan, lived from 1867 to 1880.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T5U_allen-creek-valley-shapes-the-town-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
Residents living on the west side in the 1870s drove their buggies or walked across the bridge over Allen Creek, climbing the Liberty Street hill to join the celebration of German American Day. In the distance you can see the rooftops of their hom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SR3_town-hall-school_Ypsilanti-MI.html
The Town Hall School built on the Geddes farm, carries with it a rich family and educational tradition. The first Geddes came to this area in 1824 and the family possesses the 1827 deed to the farm signed by President John Quincy Adams. In 1852, W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SR2_ypsilanti-water-tower_Ypsilanti-MI.html
Side 1 The Ypsilanti Water Tower was designed by William R. Coats and constructed as part of an elaborate city waterworks project that began in 1889. Located on the highest point in Ypsilanti, the tower was completed in 1890. It is 147 feet high …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S1K_the-last-hudson-dealership_Ypsilanti-MI.html
The building, originally occupied by the Ypsilanti Electric Company in 1896, became a Dodge automobile dealership in 1917. Joseph H. Thompson was one of the first Dodge dealers in Michigan. In 1933 Hudson Sales and Services opened its doors, later…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S0M_the-main-street-shopping-experience_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
Founded in 1860, Mack & Company grew to be Ann Arbor's largest department store. In 1870 it advertised dress goods, household goods, flannels, shawls and cloakings, "selling everything cheap." By 1900 it had become Main Street's premier …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RZ2_hudsons-friends_Ypsilanti-MI.html
The building has stories to tell It can tell about first being built as an electric plant before being converted to manufacturing in 1905. There are memories of 1916 when it became the first Dodge dealership outside Detroit, later becoming a Will…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RI9_william-l-clements-library_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
William L. Clements (1882, LLD 1934hon) was a regent of the University of Michigan (1910-1933) whose life-long avocation was the collection of books, maps and related materials on American History from 1492 to 1800. In 1922, he donated to the univ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RI8_martha-cook-building_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
Side 1 The Martha Cook Building first housed women students of the University of Michigan in 1915. New York lawyer William W. Cook, a Michigan alumnus, donated the building. The Collegiate Gothic residence was named for Cook's mother, Martha W. C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q3B_eastern-michigan-college_Ypsilanti-MI.html
Founded by legislative action in 1849 as the Michigan State Normal School, it was the first state teacher education school west of Albany. Its aim was to provide instruction "in the art of teaching and in all the various branches that pertain to a…
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