Hancock / Town Hall and Fire Hall

Historical marker location:

399 Quincy Street, Hancock, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of Quincy Street (U.S. 41) and Montezuma Street, on the right when traveling west on Quincy Street.)

Marker installed: 1999

Registered Michigan Historic Site.

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.