Hobart Street

Historical marker location:

524 North Kalamazoo Avenue, Marshall, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of Hobart Road and North Kalamazoo Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Hobart Road.)

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.