Historical Marker
Thrifty Acres
Historical marker location:
1540 28th St SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan
( Marker is at the intersection of 28th Street Southeast and Kalamazoo Avenue Southeast, on the right when traveling east on 28th Street Southeast.)
Marker installed: 2013
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.