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Stuff you likely won’t hear about at the Ypsi Historical Society, Volume I: The presence of the KKK in the 1920s

By Mark | June 16, 2014

On occasion, I find that it’s easier to steal content than to write it myself. And, just now, I was given a terrific opportunity to do just that when my friend, the local historian Matt Siegfried, posted the following two newspaper scans to the South Adams Street page he maintains on Facebook. From the November […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-immigration, cross burning, Great Migration, immigration, KKK, lynching, race, racism, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Daily Press | 29 Comments

The Untold History of Ypsilanti: Our Native American Past

By Mark | April 21, 2014

As I mentioned a few days ago, two articles were recently brought to my attention (one from 1901, and the other from 1914) about the discovery of what appeared to be Native American remains on the property in downtown Ypsilanti we today call Water Street. Well, I followed up with the fellow who sent these […]

Posted in History, Michigan, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1600s, 1680, 1700s, 1800s, 1823, Abram B. Burnett, agricultural communities, Algonquian, archeology, Athens, beaver, Beaver Wars, Blue Jacket, burial grounds, burial mounds, burial tumuli, cemeteries, Chippewa, Concordia College, de La Salle, Delaware, dislocation, Edward King, epidemics, farming, forced removal, Ford Lake, Fort Recovery, French and Indian War, frontier, fur trading, Gabriel Godfroy, Georgian Bay, Gilbert Residence, Giwitatigweiasibi, glaciers, Hinsdale Atlas of Michigan Archaeology, Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Ho-Chunk, Hopewell Mound, human history, hunter gatherer, Huron River, Huron River Watershed Council, ice age, Indian, Iroquois, Joslin, King’s Flats, Lake Erie, Late Woodland period, Little Turtle, looting, Miami, Michigan Avenue, Michigan Pioneer Collection, middens, Nandewine Sippy, native american artifacts, Native Americans, nomadic, Northwest Indian War, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, Odawa, Ohio River Valley, Ojibwe, oral history, Ottawa, Pontiac’s War, Potawatomi, reservations, Revolutionary War, Romaine La Chambre, Sauk, Sauk Trail, Serpent Mound, Shawnee, smallpox, South Huron, springs, Tecumseh, the British, the French, the history of white people, Three Fires, trading post, Treaty of Greenville, untold history, War of 1812, Washtenaw County, Water Street, westward expansion, Wilbert B. Hinsdale, Winnebago, Woodruff's Grove, Worden House, Wyandots, Ypsi history | 47 Comments

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