Paint Creek Cemetery

Paint Creek Cemetery is a Michigan historical marker in Oakland Township, Oakland County, dedicated 2006.

3659 Orion Road, Oakland Township

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The first burial here dates from 1832. Almon and Elvira Mack deeded this land to trustees of the Paint Creek Burial Ground in 1850. Created in 1853, it was known also as the Baldwin Burial Ground. The oldest marker is for Lydia Barnes Potter (1757-1836). In 1911 the Daughters of the American Revolution put a plaque at Potter’s grave in honor of her work making uniforms during the Revolutionary War. In 2002 they named a chapter in her honor.

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1819 · Ohio & Indiana (H. S. Tanner, 1819) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Colton's Michigan (1874) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · Ontario No. 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1908 · Rochester, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Southern Michigan, 1897, covering the location of Paint Creek Cemetery, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Southern Michigan, 1897, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Paint Creek Cemetery

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