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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V5C_old-van-buren-township-hall-historical_Belleville-MI.html
Van Buren Township was organized out of Huron Township by an act of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan in 1835. Township business was conducted from homes until this building was completed in 1875. The original plans called for a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V59_morris-homestead-historical_Romulus-MI.html
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This early Victorian farmhouse was built by Robert Anson Morris and Hiram G., his son, circa 1860, of select timbers from the North. Robert and Jane Phillips, his wife, came from New York state, and in 1854 purchased this 100 acres from Ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V57_merrill-morris-house-historical_Romulus-MI.html
Constructed in 1846, this Greek Revival residence was erected just nineteen years after Romulus was first settled. Originally the home of pioneer Harvey W. Merrill, the house is believed to be the oldest still standing in the city. Large walnut be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UZ5_business-pioneers-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
This Morley Avenue neighborhood has a special history.
In the early 1800s, the U.S. government purchased this land near the Rouge River for a frontier military reserve and arsenal. When the arsenal closed in 1875, the land was sold and subdivided…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UYG_piccard-stratosphere-flight-william-b-stout-school-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
Piccard Stratosphere Flight
Near this location and not far from the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village was located the Ford Airport. Here aviation history was made on October 23, 1934, when Dr. Jeannette Piccard made an ascent in a hydrogen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UXM_the-richard-gardner-house-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
It was built five years before Michigan became a state, (1837).
Dearbornville, Michigan Territory, in the Old Northwest Territory.
This house is a perfect example of pioneer construction. It was located in the Scottish settlement in Dearborn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UXI_rouge-river-water-quality-improvements-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
Why was the Retention Structure built?
Dearborn has a combined sewer system which collects both storm water and sanitary wastewater in the same pipe. During heavy rains and large snow melts, combined sewers can exceed capacity and overflow untrea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UWE_henry-fords-brother-william-ford-had-this-house-built-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
in 1909 for his Daughter and her family.
Three layers of bricks, from the local Clippert Brick Yard, comprise the structure. The garage in the rear of the lot (formerly known as the barn), housed small livestock and chickens (the sounds of whic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UW3_rhythm-of-radio-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
Radio has a strong tradition in Dearborn.
In 1934, Henry Ford inspired the "Ford Sunday Evening Hour" on Detroit's WWJ - AM radio. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra appeared on the broadcast regularly and became the nation's first radio broadcast or…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UNI_a-military-reserve-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
Dearborn was an outpost on the western frontier
Because of expansion from Detroit and Indian disturbances to the west, in 1833 the federal government began construction of an arsenal on its military reserve land near where the Sauk Trail crossed …