Historical Marker
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Historical marker location:
302 Fulton St W, Grand Rapids, Michigan
( Marker is on Fulton Street West, 0.1 miles east of Mount Vernon Avenue Northwest, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2004
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.