Opera House

Historical marker location:

219 South Main Street, Vermontville, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and East 1st Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1978

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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.