Clearing the Way

Historical marker location:

25815 Red Jacket Road, Calumet, Michigan

( Marker is on Red Jacket Road, 0.1 miles east of 4th Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Michigan played an important role in the Women's Suffrage Movement. In 1918, Michigan became the first state in the Midwest to grant women the right to vote, two years before the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.