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The Pine Grove Historical Museum is located in Pontiac, Michigan and operated by the Oakland County Pioneer and Historical Society. The museum features the home of former Michigan Governor Moses Wisner. The four acre-plus property also includes several outbuildings, including a summer kitchen, a smokehouse and a root cellar.
Pontiac was founded in 1818-19 by a group of investors. [2] In 1819, Oakland County was established, with a county seat at Pontiac. By 1820, Pontiac had a dam, a sawmill, a flour mill, and a blacksmith shop. A courthouse was constructed in 1824, and by 1830 the city of Pontiac was clearly the center of commerce for the county.
North of Pontiac on US-10, Sec. 11, T3N, R9E Pontiac vicinity August 23, 1956: Willis-Byrnes House: 129 Shadbolt Lake Orion: June 6, 1977: Austin Wing House: 5841 Wing Lake Road Birmingham vicinity August 21, 1986: Winkler's Mill (Demolished) 6381 Winkler Mill Road (Marker at Rochester Area Historical Society Museum) Rochester Hills: July 15 ...
The Wisner House, also known as Pine Grove, is a single-family house located at 405 Cesar Chavez Avenue in Pontiac, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [ 1 ] It is now a public museum, the Governor Moses Wisner House , operated by the Oakland County Pioneer and Historical Society as part of the Pine ...
The Franklin Boulevard Historic District is a primarily residential historic district located in Pontiac, Michigan along Franklin Boulevard between West Huron Street and Orchard Lake Avenue. It also contains structures along Mary Day and Henry Clay Avenues between Franklin and Miller, and some structure along West Huron between Franklin and ...
Pontiac (/ ˈ p ɒ n (t) i æ k / PON-(t)ee-ak) is a city in and the county seat of Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [3] Located roughly 26 miles (41.8 km) northwest of downtown Detroit, Pontiac is part of the Detroit metropolitan area, and is variously described as a satellite city or suburb of Detroit.
The Eastern Michigan Asylum (later the Pontiac State Hospital, then the Clinton Valley Center) was a psychiatric hospital built according to the Kirkbride Plan. Designed by Michigan State Capitol architect Elijah E. Myers , the facility opened in 1878.
The Sibley-Hoyt house is where the Michigan Animal Rescue League began. Francis Darrow, was an owner twice, lastly and singularly in 1850. Darrow was a known abolitionist. He was treasurer, and a founding member, of the Oakland County Free Discussion and Anti-Slavery Society here in 1836.