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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO2K_the-dearborn-inn-colonial-homes-and-adjacent-buildings_Dearborn-MI.html
The Dearborn InnHenry Ford built the Dearborn Inn in 1931 to accommodate overnight travelers arriving at the Ford Airport. Located opposite the inn on Oakwood Boulevard, the airport opened in 1924. The 179-room inn, designed by Albert Kahn, was th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNQE_in-memory-of-all-veterans_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
In memoryof all veteranswho served our countryin time of war
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNI0_round-island-lighthouse_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
The Round Island Lighthouse, seen south of this site, was completed in 1895. Operating under the auspices of the United States Government, this facility was in continuous use for fifty-two years. It was manned by a crew of three until its beacon w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNDU_joshua-simmons-farm_Livonia-MI.html
In 1824 Joshua Simmons of Bristol, New York, obtained a patent from the federal government for 160 acres of land in Livonia Township. Simmons and his wife, Hannah, were among the township's earliest white settlers. Their first home was a log shant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNDT_historic-fort-mackinac_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
Mackinac Island has been called the most historic spot in the Middle West. Fort Mackinac was first built by the British in 1780-81. It was not until 1796, thirteen years after the end of the Revolutionary War, that the British relinquished this fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNDR_st-ignace_St-Ignace-MI.html
Pere Marquette established in 1671 the Mission of St. Ignace. French troops soon after built Fort Buade. The state's second oldest white village guarded the Straits while serving as the most important French fur post in the northwest. By 1706 both…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNCR_american-fur-company-store_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
On June 6, 1822, Alexis St. Martin (1804-1880), a French Canadian voyageur, was accidentally shot in the American Fur Company Store located on this site. Dr. William Beaumont (1786-1853), the Fort Mackinac post surgeon, nursed St. Martin back to h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNCJ_mission-church_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
This is one of Michigan's oldest Protestant churches. It was built in 1829-30 by the Presbyterian flock of Rev. Wm. M. Ferry, founder in 1823 of a nearby Indian mission. Robert Stuart and Henry Schoolcraft were lay leaders. About 1838 private owne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNCI_skull-cave_Mackinac-Island-MI.html
According to tradition this is the cave in which the English fur-trader Alexander Henry hid out during the Indian uprising of 1763. The floor of the cave, he claimed, was covered with human bones, presumably Indian.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN72_woodstock-manual-labor-institute_Addison-MI.html
Prior Foster, an Ohio Negro, began this school "in the woods" in 1844 and four years later it was incorporated. Designed to serve "colored people and others," the Institute taught a full range of subjects and was one of the nation's first integrat…