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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN4H_lawrence-institute-of-technology_Southfield-MI.html
Lawrence Tech was chartered in 1932 by the Lawrence brothers, Russell E. and E. George. The college was located in Highland Park on Woodward Avenue until 1955, when the first building opened on this campus. Lawrence Tech, founded as an undergradua…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN32_hollys-town-hall_Holly-MI.html
Holly's Town Hall has been a center of community activity since it was built in 1892. Holly Township in Oakland County was formally organized in 1838, and the Village of Holly was incorporated in 1865. The two local governments decided to join eff…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN2P_battle-alley_Holly-MI.html
This historic district was once the scene of frequent brawls. In 1880, an uproar between local rowdies and workers of a traveling circus rendered so many bruised, beaten, and jailed, that this street was thus named "Battle Alley." Carry A. Nation,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN1Y_crapo-park_Holly-MI.html
Henry Howland Crapo (1804-1869)—wealthy lumberman, Republican, state senator (1863-64) and governor of Michigan (1865-68)—owned prosperous lumberyards in Holly, Fenton and Flint. Lumber and railroads were essential elements in the deve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWG_royal-oak-womans-club_Royal-Oak-MI.html
Erected in 1839, this building was originally a small frame Baptist church. The village purchased it for a town hall in 1914 and used it for municipal purposes until 1923, when the Royal Oak Woman's Club acquired it. The club, founded in 1902 as a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWF_royal-oak-methodist-episcopal-church_Royal-Oak-MI.html
On May 3, 1918, the Royal Oak Tribune boasted that, "architecturally and artistically," the new Methodist Episcopal Church was "the achievement of a master mind." William E. N. Hunter, a Detroit architect and Methodist who designed many Protestant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWE_fred-a-baker-house_Huntington-Woods-MI.html
In 1890, Fred A. Baker, an attorney and former state legislator, purchased 320 acres of land in Royal Oak Township. He developed the land into the Black Meadow Dairy Farm, one of the area's largest dairies. This Colonial Revival house was built in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMVE_ferndale-school_Ferndale-MI.html
Constructed in 1915
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMVD_holcombe-beach_Sterling-Heights-MI.html
Near this site in 1961 archaeologists from the Aboriginal Research Club and the University of Michigan uncovered evidence of an early Paleo-Indian settlement. Here about 11,000 years ago these first prehistoric dwellers in the Great Lakes region i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMV3_hillsdale-college_Hillsdale-MI.html
In 1844 a group of Freewill Baptists organized Michigan Central College at Spring Arbor. This college was the first in Michigan to grant degrees to women. Moved to Hillsdale in 1853 and chartered by the legislature in 1855, the school was renamed …