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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM9P_otsego-county_Gaylord-MI.html
First named Okkuddo when it was set off in 1840, this county was renamed Otsego in 1843 after a New York county and lake of that name. It is said to mean "clear water." Settlement did not begin until the late 1860's when lumbering was started. Ots…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM9O_gaylord-michigan_Gaylord-MI.html
Settled in the year 1874 by the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Railroad, the new community was named for Augustine Smith Gaylord, an attorney for the railroad. Born in Jefferson, Ohio in 1831, he started the Saginaw Public School System in 1851. He be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM96_first-congregational-church_Gaylord-MI.html
The First Congregational Church is the oldest congregation in Gaylord. In 1874 the Reverend James McKay founded it as a mission church with twenty-one members. It was officially organized three years later. In 1878 the Reverend Abram Van Auken arr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM81_congregational-united-church-of-christ_Lewiston-MI.html
Lewiston developed in 1891-1892 around the Michelson and Hanson Lumber Company. Dr. U.H. Traver and George Tuxworth held the first religious meetings in the lumber camp. The Reverend A.M. Hills was sent by the Congregational Conference of Michigan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM7S_camp-lunden_Lewiston-MI.html
In June 1933 two hundred unmarried, able-bodied men between the ages of seventeen and twenty-three, members of the Civilian Conservation Corps, set up camp on Hunt Creek. Soon after, they relocated to this site, which they named Camp Lunden. In 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM7F_big-rock_Atlanta-MI.html
Natural features have often played a role in the naming of communities. One such settlement was Big Rock. Named after a massive boulder, this hamlet was located at the crossroads of present-day M-32 and Thornton Road. Seth Gillet became the first …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM6R_angusdale-stock-farm_Atlanta-MI.html
A Milwaukee businessman, Cephas Buttles became aware of Lewiston through his brother-in-law David Kneeland, the president of Kneeland and Bigelow Lumber Company. In 1901 Buttles purchased 25,000 acres of cutover timberlands and started the Home Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM6O_hastings-mutual-insurance-company_Hastings-MI.html
On April 5, 1885, the Michigan Mutual Tornado, Cyclone, and Windstorm Insurance Company became the first mutual windstorm company incorporated by the state of Michigan. Starting in a one-room office above Grant's store, the company occupied and ou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM6M_inland-waterway_Indian-River-MI.html
The glaciers of the last Ice Age retreated to the north some 25,000 years ago, leaving behind the lakes that rank as Michigan's most notable geographical feature. Among the state's largest inland lakes is Burt Lake, named after William A. Burt, wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM6H_the-return-of-kirtlands-warbler_Grayling-MI.html
The Kirtland's Warbler was first identified in 1851 from a specimen collected on Dr. Jared Kirtland's Ohio farm. The birds originally depended on fire-created young jack pine forests for summer nesting. Such forests in northern Michigan became the…