Saginaw
Benjamin And Adelaide Cushway
Saginaw, MI
Benjamin (1810-1881) and Adelaide (1812-1877) Cushway (formerly Cauchois) were prominent settlers in the Saginaw Valley.
Bliss Park
Saginaw, MI
Aaron T. Bliss, governor of Michigan from 1900 to 1904, donated this parkland to the city of Saginaw in 1903.
Burt Opera House
Burt, MI
In 1888 this settlement was named in honor of Wellington R. Burt, the lumber tycoon who arranged for the Cincinnati, Saginaw and Mackinaw...
Coal Mine No. 8
St. Charles, MI
Coal was discovered in the St. Charles area in 1896.
Early St. Charles
St. Charles, MI
In 1852 Hiram Davis built the first house in St. Charles here, at the forks of the Bad River.
First Congregational Church
Saginaw, MI
Members of the First Congregational Church of Saginaw formally gathered in 1857.
First Presbyterian Church
Saginaw, MI
The Reverend Hiram L. Miller and twelve others founded this church, the first in the Saginaw Valley, on March 1, 1838.
Frankenmuth
Frankenmuth, MI
The settlement of Frankenmuth and the organization of Saint Lorenz Evangelical Lutheran Church occurred simultaneously.
Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn
Frankenmuth, MI
Theodore Fischer, a former bartender at the Exchange Hotel (now Zehnder’s Restaurant), established the Union House Hotel in 1888.
George Nason House
Chesaning, MI
George M. Nason (1859-1929) built this house in 1907-08.
Hess School
Spaulding Township, MI
Spaulding Township was organized in 1858.
Hoyt Park Shelter And Field House
Saginaw, MI
Local architect Donald A. Kimball designed this shelter and field house in 1938.
Jeffers Park
Saginaw, MI
The Jeffers Memorial Fountain and Park was dedicated on May 30, 1906, and named for real estate developer and early Saginaw settler...
Leamington Stewart House
Chesaning, MI
Leamington and Madeline Stewart built this Queen Anne house in 1895-97.
Michigan's German Settlers
Frankenmuth, MI
Fifteen German immigrants from Franconia, Bavaria, led by the Rev. August Craemer, founded Frankenmuth in 1845.
Presbyterian Church of South Saginaw
Saginaw, MI
Begun in 1865 as a Sunday school for children of this area, the Presbyterian Church of South Saginaw was formally organized on November...
Saginaw Club
Saginaw, MI
Organized April 18, 1889, the club’s membership was comprised of most of the leading business and civic figures of Saginaw.
Saginaw Oil Industry
Saginaw, MI
“Oil men optimistic as first well shot, shows results,” reported the August 29, 1925, edition of the Saginaw News .
Saginaw Post Office
Saginaw, MI
In 1889, at the urging of Saginaw Congressman (later governor) Aaron Bliss, the Congress appropriated one hundred thousand dollars for...
Saginaw Valley Coal
St. Charles, MI
Coal was first mined in Michigan in the 1830s in Jackson County, and that area led in production through the 1880s.
Saginaw Valley Lumbering Era
Saginaw, MI
The Saginaw River Watershed has been crucial in the development of Michigan.
Saint Michael Catholic Parish
New Lothrop, MI
Joseph Voith, a German Catholic originally from Bavaria, settled Maple Grove Township in 1854.
Schroeder House
St. Charles, MI
In 1896 John Schroeder built this one and one-half-story log home for his family on a farm about a mile west of Freeland.
St. Mary's Hospital
Saginaw, MI
The need for medical facilities in fast-growing Saginaw Valley led Father Francis Van der Bom and Dr. Benjamin B. Ross to organize...
St. Paul's Episcopal Mission
Burt, MI
In the 1860s and 1870s Scottish, Irish, and English immigrants, attracted by the lumber boom, settled in Taymouth Township.
Theodore H. Roethke Childhood Home
Saginaw, MI
Distinguished poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) was born in Saginaw and grew up in this house.
Zehnder´s
Frankenmuth, MI
Frankenmuth´s first restaurant, the Exchange Hotel, opened on this site in 1856.