Grand Ledge 1909

Historical marker location:

121 South Bridge Street, Grand Ledge, Michigan

( Marker can be reached from East River Street east of South Bridge Street, on the right when traveling north.)

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.