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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hillsdale County, Michigan. Official Website The county is named for its rolling terrain. It was described by action of the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1829, and was organized six years later. Adjacent Counties Calhoun County Jackson County Branch County Steuben County, Indiana Fulton County, Ohio Lenawee County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Schoolcraft County, Michigan. The county was founded in 1843 and organized in 1876. It is named in honor of Henry Schoolcraft, who explored the area with the expedition of Lewis Cass. Adjacent Counties Luce County Mackinac County Alger County Delta County Leelanau County Cities. Townships, Communities & Reservation...
Roselawn Memorial Park, was established in 1928 on the 54 acre Betz farm. In 1958 Roselawn was turned into a non-profit cemetery and is currently governed by a Board of Directors. Planned and operated as a community oriented cemetery, Roselawn is recognized as Monroe County’s finest memorial park. An additional 26.5 acres has been added for future development. Roselawn Website This cemeter...
History of the Copper Range Consolidated Company- The Copper Range Company (1899-1977) operated copper mines in Houghton County's South Range and in Ontonagon County. The second largest mining company in the Copper Country (after Calumet & Hecla), the Copper Range Company was the only one to survive the 1960s. In addition to mining, it owned and operated the Copper Range Railroad (1899-1973) an...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clinton County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created in 1831 and organized in 1839. It is named after early American politician DeWitt Clinton. Adjacent Counties Saginaw County Gratiot County Montcalm County Shiawassee County Ionia County Ingham County Eaton County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Flint, Michigan. Flint is the county seat of Genesee County and lies on the Flint River. Official Website Wikipedia The region was home to several Ojibwe tribes at the start of the 19th century, with a particularly significant community established near present-day Montrose. The Flint River had several convenient fords which beca...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. Official Website A historic furniture-manufacturing center, Grand Rapids is home to five of the world's leading office furniture companies, and is nicknamed "Furniture City". Other nicknames include "River City" and more recently, "Beer City" (the latter given by USA Today and adopted by the city...
This cemetery is located on 543 west Cleveland Street, Coopersville, Ottawa County, Michigan. It is also known as Coopersville Cemetery and Polkton Cemetery . Find a Grave USGW Archives Billion Graves Cemetery History
This cemetery is located on Hays & State Streets, Marne, Ottawa County, Michigan. It's also known as Berlin Cemetery and Old St. Mary's Cemetery . Find a Grave
3300 Walker Avenue NW, Walker, Kent County, Michigan. Find a Grave USGW Archives
ISLE ROYALE, HURON, GRAND PORTAGE, CHALLENGE, WINONA, KING PHILLIP, WYANDOT & SUPERIOR MINE FATALITIES PROJECT The Isle Royale Mine consisted of over 3500 acres of land just south of Houghton, comprised of the Old Grand Portage, Huron, Frue, Dodge, and Montezuma mines. The mine consisted of six shafts, a centralized surface plant, a short line railroad, a stamp mill, a pumping station, and a...
Please add profiles for those who were born in Shiawassee County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created in 1822 and was named for the Shiawassee River. Adjacent Counties Saginaw County Genesee County Livingston County Ingham County Clinton County Gratiot County For a complete list of Townships & Communities, please see Wikipedia .
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Clair County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created September 10, 1820. French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle led an expedition to this area on August 12, 1679. These Roman Catholic men named the lake as Lac Sainte-Claire, because it was the feast day of Sainte Clare of Assisi, whom they venerated. ...
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers compete in the Central division of the American League (AL) in Major League Baseball (MLB). One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in 1894 as part of the Western League. They are the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise in the AL. The Tigers have won ...
Bristol Cemetery is located 1/2 mile West of Bristol on 8 Mile Rd in Bristol, Dover Township, Lake County, Michigan. It's also known as Dover Township Cemetery . Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crawford County, Michigan. Official Website The county is named for Col. William Crawford,[6] a Revolutionary War officer captured by Native Americans near Sandusky, Ohio and burned at the stake in 1792. Created by the Michigan Legislature as Shawono County in 1840, before being renamed in 1843 as Crawford County. "Shawono" was deri...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Otsego County, Michigan. Official Website The county was founded in 1840 as Okkuddo County (meaning "sickly water," although the reason for using a name with such a negative meaning is lost). The name was changed to Otsego in 1843 and was organized in 1875. Otsego may be a Native American name meaning "place of the rock". However, a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Official Wesbite In 1840, the county was separated from Mackinac County and originally named Omeena County. It was organized by an act of the state legislature on April 7, 1851. Grand Traverse is derived from a French phrase meaning "long crossing" and the county is so named because it is situated at...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Montmorency County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Cheonoquet County, after a well-known Chippewa (also known as Ojibwa) Chief, whose name meant Big Cloud. Cheonoquet took part in Indian treaties in 1807, 1815, 1825 and 1837. Renamed Montmorency County on March 8, 1843, it wa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ann Arbor, Michigan . Official Website History In about 1774, the Potawatomi founded two villages in the area of what is now Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor was founded in 1824 by land speculators John Allen and Elisha Walker Rumsey . On May 25, 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as "Annarbour", the earliest known use of t...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Manistee County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was set off in 1840 and organized in 1855. The name "Manistee" is from an Ojibwe word first applied to the principal river of the county. The derivation is not certain, but it may be from ministigweyaa, "river with islands at its mouth". Adjacent Counties * Grand Traverse Coun...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Barry County, Michigan. Official Website History Before the present era, the Michigan peninsula was long occupied by bands of the Potowatomi and Ojibwe of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians. The United States government forced the tribes to cede their extensive territories to the federal government, in exchange for annuit...
This cemetery is located on 401 East Southern Road, Kinderhook, Branch County, Michigan. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on County Road 614, Mio, Oscoda County, Michigan. It's also known as Elmer Township Cemetery #2 . Find a Grave Oscoda County Website - List of Burials
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Presque Isle County, Michigan. Official Website The county was authorized by state legislative action on April 1, 1840, but the county government was not established until 1871. The government was reorganized in 1875. Both the county and Presque Isle Township are named for Presque Isle (French, "almost an island"; the term for a na...