St. Andrew's Episcopal Church

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is a Michigan historical marker in Big Rapids, Mecosta County, dedicated 1976.

323 South State Street, Big Rapids

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St. Andrew’s Parish was organized in 1870, when Michigan’s logging industry was flourishing. Among its early members were George Stearns, the mayor, and Thomas Lazell, the police magistrate. The simple white pine Gothic Revival church was built by the congregation, and dedicated on January 21, 1872. Part of the Western Michigan Diocese since 1874, St. Andrew’s has served the Big Rapids community for over a century.

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1854 · A map of the surveyed part of Michigan / by John Farmer ; engraved by S. Stiles & Co. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1873 · (Map of Lake County, Michigan) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1873 · Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Colton's Michigan (1874) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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