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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIW2_grand-army-of-the-republic-the-g-a-r-hall_Marshall-MI.html
(Front):In 1866 northern Civil War veterans organized the Grand Army of the Republic to fight for veterans' pensions and other benefits. Michigan's first chapter was formed the next year. National membership peaked in 1890 with 409,489 men, while …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIW1_gardner-house-museum_Albion-MI.html
Augustus P. Gardner (1817-1905), a wealthy hardware merchant, built this Victorian style house in 1975. A three-story, thirteen-room mansion with a mansard roof, it was Gardner's home until his death in 1905. In 1966, after decades of neglect, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIW0_first-presbyterian-church_Albion-MI.html
(Front)In February 1837 the Reverend Calvin Clark, a circuit riding pastor sent by the American Home Missionary Society, met with twenty-four persons and organized the Albion Presbyterian Church. The first church was built in 1840 on the corner of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIVZ_first-baptist-church_Marshall-MI.html
The Reverend Thomas Z.R. Jones, a traveling missionary, began visiting the Marshall area in 1838. On January 16, 1840, he helped organize the First Baptist Church of Marshall with eight members. The group erected this church in 1850-51. They enlar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIVX_charles-t-gorham_Marshall-MI.html
Gorham (1812-1901) came to Marshall in 1836 from New York State. First a merchant, he became a banker and in 1865 organized the First National Bank of Marshall, now the Michigan National Bank. He was a defendant in the famous Crosswhite fugitive s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIVV_american-museum-of-magic_Marshall-MI.html
Presto-Change-O! From saloon to billiard parlor, to clothing store, to bakery, to museum, this edifice, built in 1868, has known many transformations. Since April Fools' Day 1978 it has housed a unique collection that celebrates the magician's art…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII9_war-of-1812-memorial_Gibraltar-MI.html
[First Tablet, Lower Tablet Facing East]:
War of 1812 MemorialDedicated on Aug. 5, 2006
Original monument was dedicatedIn 1908 at W. Jefferson Ave.Near Gibraltar Road by Dr. Hal C. Wyman
Moved in 1958-1959 toParsons School in Gibraltar by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII7_mothers-day-in-albion-mothers-day_Albion-MI.html
Marker Front:On May 13, 1877, the second Sunday of the month, Juliet Calhoun Blakeley stepped into the pulpit of the Methodist-Episcopal Church and completed the sermon for the Reverend Myron Daugherty. According to local legend, Daugherty was dis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII5_the-first-home_Albion-MI.html
The first house at what was then known as the "Forks of the Kalamazoo" was erected near this site by Tenney Peabody, a New Yorker. To this cabin with its thatched roof of grass from the banks of the nearby Kalamazoo River, Albion's first settler b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIHX_erie-kalamazoo-railroad_Blissfield-MI.html
[Front Side of Marker]
The first railroad operated west of the Alleghenies, the Erie and Kalamazoo, was chartered on April 22, 1833 to connect Port Lawrence (later named Toledo) with the Kalamazoo River via Adrian. A horse-drawn car made the fi…