First Methodist Episcopal Church

Historical marker location:

31944 Middle Crossing Rd, Dowagiac, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of Middle Crossing Road and Garrett Road, on the right when traveling west on Middle Crossing Road.)

Marker installed: 1999

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.