Markers from the Michigan Historical Marker Program now have permanent pages at TreeAlive, placing their full inscriptions, front and back, on georeferenced maps from the periods they commemorate.
1,796marker pages live
82,000+historical map sheets
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Browsing all 1,796 markers by county.
TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in Michigan, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:
The Landing of Cadillac · near where a family lived along the Detroit River · Cadillac landed and planted the flag of France, July 24, 1701
A marker stops being a roadside plaque and becomes a destination with a personal reason to visit. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a Michigan family sees Michigan’s).
Michigan's story on these maps starts long before statehood: Cadillac planting the flag of France at Detroit in 1701, the fort at the Straits of Mackinac, the lighthouses that guided the Great Lakes fleets. As the nation's 250th approaches, each story can live as a linked set of marker pages on maps of its own era, the same maps our visitors already explore through their own family history.
Scan: Landing of Cadillac marker