The Hawkins Farm

Historical marker location:

18935 15 1/2 Mile Rd, Marshall, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of 15 1/2 Mile Road and N-Drive North, on the right when traveling south on 15 1/2 Mile Road.)

Marker installed: 1986

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.