Cass
Cass County Courthouse
Cassopolis, MI
Completed in 1899, this wooden frame building with limestone veneer is the third courthouse to serve Cass County.
Chain Lake Baptist Church and Cemetery
Calvin Township, MI
In the 1830s southern runaway slaves bound for freedom in Canada came into Michigan near Cassopolis.
Criffield-Whiteley House
Dowagiac, MI
Businessman and farmer Charles M. Criffield (1867-1929) and his wife, Cora, (1865-1945) built this Queen Anne-style house in 1897.
District Schoolhouse
Edwardsburg, MI
This late-Victorian schoolhouse was built in 1874-75.
Episcopal Church
Dowagiac, MI
The first recorded Episcopal gathering in Cass County was conducted by Bishop Philander Chase in 1832.
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Dowagiac, MI
Circuit-riding ministers established a Methodist class in Silver Creek Township in 1843.
Indian Lake Cemetery
Dowagiac, MI
Indian Lake Cemetery has been in use since the 1840s and contains the remains of many of the earliest settlers of Silver Creek Township.
Methodist Episcopal Church
Niles, MI
Circuit-riding Methodist ministers held religious services in Pokagon Township during the 1830s and 1840s.
Poe's Corners
Jones, MI
In 1835 George Poe (1779-1851) emigrated from Crawford County, Ohio, and settled on land deeded to him by the U.S. government.
Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Silver Creek Twp, MI
Chief Leopold Pokagon and his tribe of Potawatomi Indians built a log church here in 1838 and deeded the forty acres of land on which it...
Smith's Chapel
Niles, MI
The first Methodist church in Milton Township was organized in 1839.
Sumnerville Mounds
Niles, MI
Between the first and fourth centuries A.D. Hopewell Indians built nine burial mounds near here.
The Underground Railroad
Vandalia, MI
Vandalia, prior to the Civil War, was the junction of two important “lines” of the “Underground Railroad.