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Theodore H. Roethke Childhood Home / Theodore H. Roethke

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...

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Pioneer House

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...

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The Northernmost Point of Lake Michigan

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...

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Howell Carnegie Library / Howell Carnegie Library

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...

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First State Prison

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...

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Michigan School for the Blind / Administration Building

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,...

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Mount Hope Cemetery

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...

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Oak Grove Cemetery (Dixboro)

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

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

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...

Roland Hemond Meritorious Service Award

Roland Hemond has served professional baseball for over 50 years. Won the prestigious major league baseball Executive of the Year award three times during his career and regarded as the...

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Site of the San Remo Café

Site of the San Remo Café (1925 - 1967)In its post-war heyday, the San Remo was a meeting place for an unparalleled array of figures from the Beat movement, the New York School of poets...

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In Memory of Weldon Hogg, Dec 5, 1914 - Nov 14, 1998

Grand Master Peter G. Urban, Ph.D.

By Nightscream (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Baldwin Apple Monument

THIS MONUMENT MARKS THE SITE OF THE FIRST BALDWIN APPLE TREE FOUND GROWING WILD NEAR HERE. IT FELL IN THE GALE OF 1815. THE APPLE FIRST KNOWN AS THE BUTTERS, WOODPECKER OR PECKER APPLE WAS...

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Civil Rights Freedom Riders

Civil Rights Freedom Riders. May 20, 1961. On May 20, 1961, a group of black and white SNCC members led by John Lewis left Birmingham bound for Montgomery on a Greyhound bus. They were determined...

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Frank O'Hara (Greenwich Village)

Frank O'Hara (1926 - 1966)The influential American poet Frank O’Hara lived at 441 East Ninth Street from 1959 to 1963. O’Hara was a leading member of the New York School of poetry as well as...

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James Baldwin (Greenwich Village)

James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)The great American writer James Baldwin lived in an apartment here from 1958 through 1961. The power and eloquence of Baldwin’s varied works impacted ideas about...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)From 1983 to 1988 renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked here, a former stable owned by friend and mentor Andy Warhol. Basquiat’s paintings...

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Site of First PFLAG Meeting

Site of First PFLAG Meeting In 1972, Queens school teacher Jeanne Manford walked alongside her gay son, activist Morty Manford, at the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, carrying a sign...

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