War Memorial

Historical marker location:

206 Main Street, Frankfort, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and 2nd Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.)

Michigan was the site of the deadliest school massacre in American history. In 1927, a school board member in Bath, Michigan, named Andrew Kehoe detonated explosives he had planted in the local school, killing 38 children and six adults. Kehoe had also killed his wife and set fire to his farm before carrying out the attack.