TreeAlive Map your family tree
← All Michigan markers

The Rucker-Stanton House

The Rucker-Stanton House is a Michigan historical marker in Grosse Ile, Wayne County, dedicated 1987.

21719 West River Road, Grosse Ile

Get directions ↗Start a road tripHistorical trails

This vernacular house was built by John A. Rucker Jr. in 1848. Rucker was the great-grandson of William Macomb, who with his brother Alexander purchased Grosse Ile from four Indian tribes on July 6, 1776. In 1873 Robert Lee Stanton, Rucker’s cousin, bought the house. Between 1897 and 1898 a large rear wing was added. The house was still owned and occupied by descendants of Alexander and William Macomb in 1987, the year of Michigan’s sesquicentennial.

Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

The Western Parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, 1778, covering the location of The Rucker-Stanton House, with a pin at the marker's coordinates
The Western Parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, 1778, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.
Example

For example, one family's tree showed the Articles of Confederation marker in Pennsylvania standing under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s.

What that marker records spans 1777 to 1789, overlapping William Gabby's years there.

From one family's 77-marker roster

Upload your family tree and TreeAlive finds the markers near where your own ancestors lived.

See your family's markers

Start with a tree file, a FamilySearch sign in, or a WikiTree ID.

Report a problem with this page

We may pass what you report to the state's marker program. Please don't include personal details.

Marker data: Michigan History Center
TreeAlive is an independent project. The State of Michigan and the Michigan History Center are not responsible for maintaining the information on this site.

More markers nearby

Privacy Policy · Accessibility