State of Michigan
Department of History, Arts and Libraries

Information Sites, Commemorate Designations and Informational
Designations in Wayne County

Note: These are commemorative designations of locations in Wayne County where an important historic occurred. In almost all of these locations a State of Michigan Historical Marker was erected, but there are a few sites where no marker has yet been put up. The date of its erection is shown in the list below. However, it is often challenging to find a State of Michigan Historical Marker for one of several reasons:

• It may have been placed inside a building and few people know exactly where it is located.
• It may have been located in a specific place, but subsequent remodeling of a building occurred or the area changed where the State of Michigan marker is.
• It disappeared for other reasons, including some that are now missing because they were appropriated for personal use.

Listed below you will find the date when the historic designation was approved and the date when the historical marker was erected.; HM means State of Michigan Historical Marker. All locations are in the city of Detroit except where noted. The location of sites outside the city of Detroit is shown with the name of the location in bold and underlined.

• American Academy of Pediatrics Commemorative Site, P25, 019, July 29, 1980 — 3990 John R. at Harper Grace Hospital; HM October 23, 1980
  
• Association of Food and Drug Officials Commemorate Designation, P 1,438, July 15, 1999 — Washington Boulevard between Michigan and State in downtown Detroit
  No historical marker has been put in place yet.
  
• James A. Bailey Home Informational Site, P25, 022, January 19, 1978 — One Washington Boulevard located inside the lobby of Cobo Hall; HM August 7, 1978
  
• Battle of Bloody Run Informational Designation, P25,024, August 23, 1956 — 3321 East Jefferson Avenue; HM August
  
• Battle of Brownstown Informational Designation, P25,296, September 25, 1956 — Parsons Memorial Park at 14473 Middle Gibraltar Road, Gibraltar; HM April 18, 1958
  
• Battle of Mongaugon Informational Designation, P25,354, September 25, 1956 — Elizabeth Park at the intersection of Slocum and West Jefferson in Trenton; HM August 9,
  
• Brewster Homes Commemorative Designation, P237, June 15, 1995 — Mack at I-75 near downtown Detroit; HM June 23, 1995
  
• Colonel Thornton Fleming Brodhead’s Office, P25,377, January 19,1978 — 20608 East River Road Grosse Ile; HM June 3, 1980
  
• David Dunbar Buick Motor Company Commemorative Designation, P 47,338, November 15, 2001— Inside the current headquarters of General Motors at the Renaissance Center at the intersection of East Jefferson and Beaubien; HM November 15, 2001
  
• Ralph J. Bunche Commemorative Designation, P25,033, February 11, 1972 — Near the intersection of West Fort and Junction; HM April 27, 1972. This historical marker is missing.
  
• Landing of Cadillac Informational Site, P25,157 May 22, 1979 — Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit; HM June16, 1979
  
• Chicago Road Informational Designation, P25,048, May 4, 1966 — Michigan at Washington Boulevard in downtown Detroit; HM October 13, 1966
  
• Children’s Home of Detroit Informational Designation, P25,309, May 21, 1985 — 900 Cook Road Grosse Pointe Woods; HM January 30, 1986
  
• Chrysler Corporation Informational Designation, P25, 316, May 4, 1966 — 12000 Oakland Highland Park; HM June 12, 1968
  This historical marker is missing.
  
• Church of the Annunciation Informational Designation, P25,050, January 18, 1980 — 707 East Lafayette; HM August 28, 1980
  I do not know why this is an informational designation. There is a large Greek Orthodox Church—the Church of the Annunciation—at this location.
  
• Conant Gardens Informational Designation, P25,054, September 7, 1984 — Northeast corner of Conant and Nevada at Conant; HM March 5, 1990
  
• George DeBaptiste Home Informational Site, P25,058, April 4, 1975 — Southeast corner of East Lernad Street and Beaubien; HM August 28, 1975
  
• Dearborn Hills Golf Club Informational Designation, P25,005, February 16, 1999 — 3001 South Telegraph Dearborn; HM April 21, 1999
  
• Detroit and Pontiac Railway Terminal Informational Designation, P25,077, August 23, 1956 — I do not know the location.
  No historical marker has yet been erected.
  
• Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs/ William Lennane House, P25,162, December 19, 1984 — 5461 Brush near the intersection with East Ferry; HM September 23, 1986
  
• Detroit City Bank, P25,059, August 23, 1956 — 134 Jefferson
  The Detroit City Bank Building was razed.
  
• Detroit City Hall Informational Site, P25,061, February 19, 1958 — Woodward at Cadillac Square; HM January 20, 1971
  Detroit’s City Hall commemorated at this site has been razed.
  
• Detroit College of Law Informational Designation, P25,062, April 18, 1983 — On the exterior wall of Comerica Stadium on Adams Street East near the intersection with Witherall; HM May 16, 1983
  
• Detroit Free Press Commemorative Designation, P37,139, August 26, 1999 — 600 West Fort between Second and Third in downtown Detroit
  No historical marker has yet been put in place.
  
• Detroit Institute of Technology, P25,065, January 16, 1962 — Corner of Temple and Second at Cass Park
  No historical marker has yet been put in place.
  
• Detroit Medical College – Detroit College of Medicine Informational Site, P25,068, May 26,1967 — 3800 Woodward at Martin Place; HM October 3, 1967
  
• Detroit Memorial Hospital, P25,069 — 1441 Chrysler Drive; HM July 12, 1974
  The building this hospital occupied has been torn down.
  
• Detroit Museum of Art, P25,070, February 19, 1958 — Southwest corner of East Jefferson and Hastings
  No historical marker has been erected yet and this intersection disappeared in the construction of the Chrysler Expressway. The building was razed.
  
• Detroit Plaindealer Office Informational Site, P25,072, November 14, 1974 — Southwest corner of Shelby and State; HM
  May 22, 1975
  This historical marker is missing.
  
• First Detroit Public Library Commemorative Designation, P25,099, January 24, 1964 — Griswold at State in Capitol Park
  No historical marker has been erected yet.
  
• Detroit River Historical Marker, 5437 West Jefferson in Trenton
• Detroit River Recovery Information Designation, 5437 West Jefferson in Trenton
• Detroit Urban League Informational Designation, P25,076, March 2, 1976 — 208 Mack Avenue; HM, August 29, 1978
  
• Detroit’s First Public School Informational Site, P25,079, August 23, 1956 — Woodbridge Street near Shelby
  No historical marker has been erected yet.
  
• Frederick Douglass and John Brown Meeting Informational Site, P25,081, December 5, 1961 — 633 East Congress at St. Antoine; HM, January 31, 1962
  
• Early Detroit: 1701-1760 Informational Designation, P25,083, July 19, 1956 — 151 West Jefferson; HM June 30, 1958
  The historical marker is missing.
• East River Bridge
  
• Eighteenth Century Gristmill Informational Site, P25,379, March 23, 1965 — East River Road Grosse Ile; HM July 2, 1965
  
• Eureka Iron Works/ America’s First Bessemer Steel Mill, P25,366, September 17, 1957 — Northwest corner of Van Alstyne Boulevard and Elm Street Wyandotte; HM April 4, 1958
  
• William Ferguson Informational Site, P25,093, November 14, 1974 — 661 Alfred; HM July 22, 1975
• Ferry Street Bridge –
  
• Finney Hotel – Underground Railroad Informational Site, P25,094, August 23, 1956 — Northeast Corner of State and Griswold at 46 State Street in Capitol Park; HM, January 23, 1980
  
• Fire of 1805, P25,095, August 23, 1956 — No location has yet been chosen
  No historical marker has been erected yet.
  
• First Congregational Church of Wayne Commemorative Designation, P28,815, April 15, 1999 — 2 Town Square off Wayne Road between East and West Michigan Avenue, Wayne (This is a suburb of Detroit in western Wayne County) ; HM July 19, 1999
  
• First Jewish Religious Services Informational Designation, P25,100, April 1, 1977 — Corner of St. Antoine and East Congress; HM September 14, 1977
• First Jewish Settler in Michigan, — Fort Michilimacknac Mackinaw City, Michigan
• First Michigan Colored Regiment Informational Site, P25,101 March 1, 1968— Duffield School grounds at 2700 Clinton Street at Joseph Campau; HM, April 12, 1968
  
• First Mile of Concrete Highway Informational Designation, P25,102, January 1, 1957 — Woodward between Six and Seven Mile Roads; HM May 3, 1957
  
• First Presbyterian Church of Plymouth Informational Site, P25,336, May 18, 1989 — 200 East Main Street, Plymouth; HM October 2, 1989
• First Presbyterian Church of South Lyon, — 205 East Lake Street at Wells
  
• First Standardized State Police Post in Michigan Informational Designation, P25,344, September 16, 1986 — 32409 Fort Street Rockwood; HM May 29, 1987
  
• First United States Troops in Detroit Informational Designation, P25,105, August 23, 1956 — Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit near the intersection of Griswold and West Jefferson
  No historical marker has been erected.
  
• Ford Airport/William B. Stout Informational Site, P25,008, January 19, 1957 — 20301 Oakwood Boulevard in front of the entrance to the Dearborn Inn, Dearborn; HM April 18, 1958
  
• Ford Auto Birthplace Informational Site, P25,109, August 23, 1956— 220 Bagley in downtown Detroit; HM, January 23, 1980
  
• Ford Hunger March Informational Site, P25,110, December 19, 1981 — 10520 West Fort Street on the Fort Street Bridge over the River Rouge; HM, January 21, 1992
  
• Ford Motor Company-Highland Park Plant Commemorative Designation, P26,768, July 17, 1997 — 14100 Woodward near the northeast corner of Woodward and Manchester, Highland Park; HM, September 30, 1997
  
• Ford Motor Company Informational Site, P25,111, January 19, 1978 — Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit; HM May 10, 1978
  
• Henry Ford Birthplace Informational Site, P25,010, April 18, 1962 — Adjoining a condominium parking lot at the intersection of Ford and Greenfield Roads Dearborn; HM July 28, 1963
  
• Fort Lernoult Informational Designation, P25,113, August 23, 1956 — At the intersection of West Fort and Shelby in downtown Detroit; HM November 13, 1964
• Fort Michilimackinac — Straits Avenue,  Mackinaw City
  
• Fort Pontchartrain Informational Site, P25,114, February 18, 1956 — 2 Washington Boulevard at Cobo Hall in downtown Detroit; HM June 27, 1967
  
• Elizabeth Denison Forth Home Informational Site, P25,118, December 14, 1976 — 328 Macomb
  No historical marker has been erected.
  
• Fox Indian Massacre Informational Site, P25,305, April 11, 1977 — Corner of Lake Point and Windmill Point Roads, Grosse Pointe Park; HM October 7, 1977
  
• Aaron Greeley-St. Cosme Line Road Informational Designation, P25,002, August 13, 1971 — 16850 Southfield, Allen Park; HM October 9, 1975
  
• Grosse Ile Military Outpost Informational Site, P25,381, May 4, 1962 — East River Road Grosse Ile
  
• Colonel Jean Francois Hamtramck Burial Place Informational Site, P25,312, October 22, 1963 — Berres at Dan, Hamtramck; HM October 18, 1976
• Hibbard Tavern — 115 Summit, Milford, MI
  
• Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War Historical Marker — Tricentennial State Park, near the intersection of St. Aubin and Atwater on the Riverfront in downtown Detroit
  
• George M. Johnson Tavern Informational Site,, P25,358, June 27, 1969 — 35118 Michigan Wayne (This is a western Wayne county suburb of Detroit); HM July 16, 1969
  
• Charles Brady King Automobile Informational Designation, P25,150 September 25,1956 — 620 St. Antoine
  No historical marker has been put in place yet.
  
• Birth of Kiwanis/Griswold Hotel Informational Site, P25,152 January 24, 1964 — Griswold Street at Grand River in downtown Detroit; HM January 8, 1965
  
• Martin Kundig Commemorate Designation, P25,154 May 14, 1975 — 3200 Jefferies; HM August 24, 1975
  
• William Lambert Home Informational Site, P25,156 November 14, 1974 — 1930 East Lafayette; HM June 3, 1975
  
• Le Cote du Nord-Est Informational Site, P 25,159 September 17, 1974 — Joseph Campau Avenue at the Detroit River; HM November 14, 1974
  
• Father John A. Lemke Informational Designation P25,161 March 19, 1980 — Inside St. Albertus Roman Catholic Church at 4231 St. Aubin; HM January 21, 1981
  
• Livonia Revolutionary War Soldiers Informational Designation, P25,329 January 16, 1976 — Livonia Bicentennial Park at the intersection of West Seven Mile and Wayne Roads, Livonia; HM July 28, 1976
  
• Mansion House and Survey Tree Informational Site, P25,384 December 10, 1963 — 20772 River Road Grosse Ile; HM June 3, 1964
  
• Elijah McCoy Home Informational Site, P25,170, November 14, 1974 — 5720 Lincoln Avenue; HM December 23, 1974
• Merrill-Palmer Institute Marker, — 71 East Ferry Street in Detroit’s Cultural Center and the East Ferry Historic District; HM 2003
  
• Michigan State Medical Society Informational Site, P25,177, June 11, 1965 — 85-87 Woodward between Congress and Larned; HM August 31, 1965
  
• Michigan Car Ferries Marker — 321 Huron near Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City
• Michigan's Ferry System Marker — 321 Huron near Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City
• Michigan’s First Capitol Building Informational Site, P25,178, August 23, 1956 — Griswold at State in Capitol Park in downtown Detroit
  No historical marker has been put in place.
  
• Michigan’s First Lasting Newspaper, P25,179, August 23, 1956 — West Jefferson between Griswold and Shelby
  No historical marker has been put in place.
  
• Michigan’s First Seat of Government/Richard Smyth’s Tavern, P25,180, August 23, 1956 — 313 Woodward Avenue
  No historical marker has been put in place yet.
  
• Michigan’s First Theater Informational Site, P25,181, September 25, 1956 — Location unknown
  No historical marker has been put in place to commemorate this location.
• North Milford Village Historic District
  
• Mill Race Historical Village Informational Designation, P25,337, June 10, 1987 — Griswold Street, Northville; HM May 24, 1989
  
• Motown Record Corporation Informational Site, P25,185, August 21, 1987 — 2648 West Grand Boulevard; HM November 11, 1987
  
• Nankin Pioneer Informational Designation, P25,295, January 22, 1965 — Wagner Road at Sunset Drive, Garden City; HM June 2, 1965
  
• Nankin Township School District Number 3 Commemorative Designation, P3199, January 20, 1994 — 6420 Newburgh Road, Westland; HM April 25, 1994
  
• Newburg Methodist Church Commemorative Designation, P243, October 20, 1994 — 36500 Ann Arbor Trail, Livonia; HM February 24, 1995
• Ransom Eli Olds Commemorative Designation, P5154, September 4, 1997 — Near the picnic shelter between Casino Wayne and Ruse Road on Belle Isle; HM January 24, 1997
• Parke Lane Road Bridge
  
• Perrinsville Informational Designation, P25,363, October 7, 1975 — Ann Arbor Trail at Merriman Road, Westland; HM
  April 14, 1977
  
• Plymouth Informational Designation, P25,341, December 21, 1978 — 201 South Main in the Plymouth City Hall, Plymouth; HM June 13, 1979
  
• Pointe Mouillee Marsh Informational Designation, P25,345, February 15, 1990 — 37205 Mouillee Road, Rockwood; HM July 5, 1990
  
• Poles in Michigan, P25,313, September 17, 1957 — No location selected yet Hamtramck
  No historical marker erected yet.
  
• Potawatomi Cession of Grosse Ile Informational Site, P25,385, February 17, 1965 — Bridge Road, Grosse Ile
  No historical marker has yet been put in place.
  
• Rawsonville Village Informational Designation, P25,394, October 27, 1983 — Mosley-Bennett-Barlow Nature Preserve at Rawsonville Road near Belleville; HM May 23, 1985
  
• Recreational Park Information Designation, P25,207, June 10, 1987 — The marker is located at Harper Hospital, 3990 John R. in the Brush Street Mall on the north side of the hospital facility; HM September 29, 1987
  
• Redford Township School District Number 9 Informational Designation, P25,392, May 16, 1991 — 12259 Beech-Daly Road at Southwestern and Capitol Redford Township; HM June 25, 1991
  
• Religious of the Sacred Heart Information Designation P25,211, March 20, 1984 — South side of East Jefferson between Beaubien and St. Antoine; HM April 17, 1984
• Gabriel Richard Press Marker, P25,212, Listed September 25, 1956 — 5450 West Jefferson
  No historical marker has been put in place to commemorate the first press in Michigan.
  Fannie Richards Home Informational Site, P25,213, November 14, 1974 — On Rivard near East Lafayette and close to 1357 East Lafayette; HM June 4, 1975
  
• Roseland Park Mausoleum, P24,328, January 27, 1983 — In the Roseland Park Cemetery at the northwest corner of the Intersection of Twelve Mile Road and Woodward in Royal Oak
  
• St. Antoine YMCA Informational Site, P25,221, March 2, 1976 — 635 Elizabeth; HM January 23, 1980
  
• St. John’s Presbyterian Church Informational Designation, P25,229, August 23, 1990 — 1961 East Lafayette; HM April 2, 1991
  
• St. Joseph’s Retreat Informational Site, P25,014, June 16, 1972 — 23300 Michigan at Outer Drive, Dearborn; HM August 12, 1980
  
• St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, P25,232, June 15, 1979 — 64 East Monroe at St. Antoine in Greektown near downtown Detroit; HM August 1, 1980
  
• University of Michigan Informational Designation— Near the intersection of East Congress Street and Bates Street in
  Downtown Detroit
  
• St. Philip’s Lutheran Congregation Informational Designation, P25,234, July 21, 1988 — 2884 East Grand Boulevard; HM November 1, 1988
  
• Salvation Army Commemorative Designation, P3214, February 17, 1994 — Randolph Street between Congress and Larned; HM March 8, 1994
  
• Robert P. Scherer and R. P. Scherer Corporation Informational Designation, P25,239, June 15, 1984 — 67 East Kirby; HM September 5, 1984
  
• Sheldon’s Corners Informational Designation, P25,376, May 21, 1985 — Southeast corner of Michigan Avenue and Sheldon Road Canton Township; HM May 31, 1987
  
• Shrine Circus Informational Designation, P25,243, December 21, 1982 — Northwest corner of Brush and Larned; HM
  January 3, 1983
• South Lyon Grain Elevator, P 24,403, January 25, 1985 — 415 Lake Street East at the Pere Marquette Rail Line, South Lyon
• South Point Drive Bridge
• First Standardized State Police Post in Michigan Informational Designation, September 16, 1986
  
• George A. Starkweather Residence, P25,342, June 15, 1989 — 711 Starkweather, Plymouth
  
• Stearns Telephone Informational Site, P25,251, April 24, 1970 — 511 Woodward; HM April 6, 1972
  
• D. Augustus Straker Informational Site, P25,255, January 16, 1976 — 428 Temple; HM October 4, 1977
  This historical marker is missing.
  
• William Sutherland Bungalow, P25,343, January 22, 1987 — 1142 South Main, Plymouth
  
• John Tibbitts Farmstead, P25,391 February 28, 1986 — 46225 North Territorial Road, Plymouth
  
• Chief Tonquish Informational Designation, P25,360, October 21, 1975 — 34850 Fountain Boulevard at Wayne Road south of Ann Arbor Trail Westland; HM August 29, 1977
• Track Pans Marker
  
• U. S. Topographic Service Site
  
• War of 1812 Dead Informational Site, P25,277, November 17, 1962 — Southwest corner of Washington Boulevard and Michigan Avenue; HM September 12, 1963
  
• Andrew Jackson Welsh Residence/Welsh-Moore Residence, P25,339; February 23, 1981 — 512 West Dunlap, Northville
  
  

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