Distinguished poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) was born in Saginaw and grew up in this house. The house was built around 1911 for his parents, Otto and Helen Roethke. Otto’s brother Carl lived...
The Pioneer House opened in the early 1870s as a boardinghouse for lumbermen. Beginning as a 1 ½ -story building, it underwent three major renovations between 1885 and 1936 evolving into a hotel...
About a mile west of here is the northernmost point of Lake Michigan. This geographical location is of historical importance because the act of Congress which created the territory of Michigan in...
The Howell library originated as the Ladies Library Association in 1875. That year, the ladies began offering books for lending. The need for spacious, permanent quarters grew, and in 1902, for...
This was the original site of Michigan’s first state prison, approved by the legislature in 1838. A temporary wooden prison, enclosed by a fence of tamarack poles, was built on sixty acres...
Michigan began educating the blind in 1859 at Flint’s Michigan Asylum. In 1879 the legislature established the Michigan School for the Blind, which opened here on September 29, 1880,...
Mount Hope Cemetery opened as Lansing's new city cemetery in June 1874 on what was formerly the John Miller Farm. Between 1874 and 1881 the city vacated the Lansing City Cemetery, located on...
Oak Grove Cemetery The Village of Dixboro was primarily a farming community, revolving around the mills located on Fleming Creek. It remained that way until 1925 when Plymouth Road...
Dixboro United Methodist Church In its earliest years, the Village of Dixboro was served by "circuit-riding" preachers. The infrequency of these visits and the "occurrence of carousing in the...
Dixboro School Constructed in 1888, the Dixboro School was part of Superior Township School District No. 2. It stands on land set aside in the original village plat of 1826 as "a public square...